2014年9月13日星期六

The tips for wood flooring crackings

At present, for the new house decoration, many people choose real wood flooring, and hardwood flooring prices are a little higher. Therefore, once any quality problems of the wood flooring occurs, it would be really frustrating. the most common problem of wood flooring is the floor cracking, which is determined by the characteristics of the wood flooring itself.Once you have installed and used the flooring properly, even when the flooring is fully qualified product, this quality problem may also occur. So the flooring maintenance is very important.

Duiring wooden floors maintenance, we should be sure to keep the floor dry and clean. Usually, flooring moisture content remains 8~12% and for such wood flooring under normal circumstances, there would be no problem.


But improper installation and usage also will cause wood floor quality problem, such as no waterproof process when installing; cleaning with water pouring or wiping with soap water or alkali water (these actions will damage the gloss of the lacquer); no isolation between bathroom and living room(or bedroom) ; no close the curtains in summer ,then the direct strong sunshine  makes the wooden floors cracking; too low temperature setting for the air conditioner , causing huge temperature change day and night, resulting in the violent expansion or contraction and  deformation cracking for the hardwood flooring.


After the hardwood flooring is installed, if any flooring boards are found cupping up, we should at once take up these flooring boards and remove the old glue and ash, use new glue and press closely; if some flooring boards’s lacquer damaged or falling down, we could use  No. 400 sandpaper dipped with SOAP water for polishing, and then clean these floor boards, make the finishing or lacquer after painting these boards, finally polish with wax again 24 hours later drying. Waxing the wood flooring once time every month is one of the best ways of maintenance, but make sure that clean the moisture and stains on the flooring before waxing.

2014年9月9日星期二

Why the engineered wood flooring would be unglued

The unglued wood flooring is a very seriously aging problem, which mainly occurs in engineered wood flooring. The unglued phenomenon of engineered wood flooring usually leads to the separation between wood veneer and the plywood structure, affecting the use of engineered wood flooring.   

Engineered wood flooring unglued problems will have a big impact, causing the top veneer to come off from the structure, even making the veneer crack at the same time.

If the engineered wood flooring is unglued, it would be a very troublesome quality problem for the for the maintenance. The majoy way of maintaining the engineered wood flooring unglued, is to take out and re-install all the wood flooring. Thus, for consumers, engineered wood flooring unglued is really a very annoying problem.   

The major causes of the engineered wood flooring unglued 
  
Firstly, The moisture content of the ground.
During the installation of wood flooring, the ground moisture is an important factor, because ground moisture level will affect the quality of the wood flooring in future. The unglued problem of wood flooring comes from to a large extend the retting or expansion of wooden floors due to the high moisture content of the ground and the top veneer would not expand as there is a plywood structure separating the ground and the top veneer.   
As a result, under the pulling force of floor expansion, there would a phenomenon of separation between top veneer and the plywood structure, which results in the engineered wood flooring unglued.
flooring and panels will produce a pull effect, resulting in solid wood multilayered flooring unglued.   


Next: The wrong ways of cleaning and maintenance
When daily cleaning, people may use wet cleaning equipment, which leads to water getting into the surface of engineered flooring, prompting the expansion within the floor and causing the expansive force within the multilayer, which leads to the phenomenon of ungluing.

When we solve the problem of the wood flooring unglued,it is very important for us to control the moisture of the ground and  the indoor humidity, to use the dry cleaners for cleaning and maintenance,.These means keeps our wood flooring durable and not aging.