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.

What are the reasons for wood flooring aging

We believe that many people have encountered the problem of an aging wood flooring, because, as time goes on , wood flooring will be discolored, bulging, cracking, peeling, cupping, and mildewing, arching, degumming, worn, which we all name as the aging wood flooring. Then what are the reasons of wood flooring ageing?

There are two reasons of wood flooring aging: internal and external.

The internal reasons are including： the moisture content of wood flooring, the performance and quality of flooring lacquer, the wood material of flooring, the quality of moisture-proof underlayer installed when laying the floor, the gaps left for expoation and contraction during the installtion of flooring.These will affect the life time  and the aging of your hardwood flooring.

External factors mainly refer to the temperature of the wood floor, humidity, mold fungus causeing aging wooden flooring.

The most difficult problem for anti-aging flooring technology is at the aspect of flooring lacquer.

As the surface coatings of wood flooring with ordinary lacquer could not match those coatings of laminate flooring in terms of hardness, flexibility, scratch resistance and the abrasion resistance. Thus, there would be bumps, scratches and lacquer-sheddings for those ordinary wood floorings and this phenomena undoubtedly affects flooriing lifetime. 　　

The moisture content control, the moisture resistance ,the installation ways of hardwood flooring have great effects on the flooring aging. As a result, in normal situations, we should try to avoid the contact of hardwood flooring with water, this can significantly improve the lifetime of wooden flooring.At the same time, when purchasing flooring, we should also select the wood flooring with precise moisture control and good moisture resistance. 　　

During installation, we have to ask sellers to help us arrange installation, otherwise no one knows who shall take responsibility once problems occur.

To protect wood flooring from aging, it is necessary to cut off the source of wooden flooring,aging.The above information is what we must pay great attention to when buying the hardwood flooring.

Pay attention to five aspects on installation of hardwood flooring

Hardwood flooring feels very comfortable, looks naturally beautiful, but is expensive.

For consumers who have a solid wood flooring,it is very unconomical to bear the bad

influence its usage life due to the improper installation.

There are five aspects on wood flooring installation that should be paid attention to.

 

First, be sure to check after finished the installation of joist.

Uneven ground can suspend part of the floor and wooden joist, when you step on it you

might hear an unpleasant sound. If the wood flooring is not firmly installed , it can also

come across the same situation, thus make sure to check it after installation. You can step

on the wooden joist, or shake the feet to make sure whether it is firm.

 

Second, don’t forget flat testing

After the installation of first row of floors, the installer should test flatness, if the wood

flooring is uneven, we need to adjust immediately, otherwise it will affect the upcoming

laying work. After installation, you’d better put a vertical ruler on the floor, to see if there

are gaps.

 

Third, drying and decay of joist

Generally, the qualified wood flooring moisture content is 12%, wood joist need to be

dried in order to avoid dampness which is caused by moisture difference. Solid wood

flooring is easy to be damaged by worms, so put camphor wood shavings in the joist,

normally, put 1000 g camphor wood shavings every eight square meters.

 

Fourth, pay attention to the color contrast of wood flooring in advance

The color of each piece of wood flooring could be various, so it should be classed before

laying, pick out the similar color, and texture floor so that the overall effect will not be

much difference.

 

Five pay attention to the laying of underlayer foam

In order to avoid the water content of wall to affect wood floors, the laying of underlayer

foam should not only cover the entire wood joist, but also be sure that the underlayer foam

is 10cm away from the corners. Meanwhile, between the wall and the wood flooring

should stay out of the expansion joints, if it is too close, it may easy to distort

Flooring maintenance in winter: Humidification is the key

Cold winter is coming, thousands of families have turned on the underfloor heating, the

temperature of the wood flooring began to increase, self-heating floor from development to

maturity and then put on the market, warm home floor share a pleasant moment of life.

How to deal with Self-heating floors in the face of all kinds of heating.

In terms of Consumers' trend, the ground-heating flooring is the first choice for most

people,basically, using ground heating to go through the whole winte. In order to prevent

cracking of the floor, warped, etc., we need to have strict control of the surface

temperature which should not be over 30 ℃. Humidity control is also extremely

important, as we all know, once the ground temperature rises, the moisture content of

the hardwood flooring will reduce and lead to shrinkage cracks when it is exposed to

heat. To prevent the occurrence of such thing, it is recommended to increase the idoor

humidity appropriately. Waxing wood flooring is also a good option, to keep the moisture

content inside r and reduce the extent of expansion.

Of course, there are many ways to increase the indoor humidity, you can use a humidifier

to humidify.If there is no humidifier, pls use a dry cotton mop to wipe the floor can also

play a good effect. In order to keep a relatively stable environment for the wood

flooring, you should ensure that the indoor humidity above 50%.

After controling the temperature and humidity, you should avod stuffing too many things

and legless furniture on it, so as not to affect the heating of the floors. At the same time, pls

do not place foam or plastic products on the floor, such items after long-term contact with

heating, may produce harmful gases which are bad for health.

Enjoy the better home life but also the environmental lifestyle.

How to get rid of foot sounds on wood flooring?

In some family, after home decoration, the wood floorings would produce sounds more or

less when walking on them. Therefore, what is the reasons that result in the sounds?

In fact,  under heating system and wood floorings are closely related with each other. We

should observe how the sounds are produced. If we tread on one place, it makes a sound,

tread again, and sound again continuously, then we could sure that theunder heating

system and the mortise are not fixed enough, or the mortise materials are too short, so

that the under heating system could rope them. There are few approaches that can deal

with the problems. Even though we can relieve them, we could not get rid of the roots.

There is only one method. We should refix the under heating system and reinstall the wood floorings,

which is troubling. Everyone is unwilling to do that.

Only pay attention to these technics and approaches before installation can we avoid the

sounds.

1  Before installing the under heating system, we usually use 12mm hammer to drill the

holes.

2  Then the mortise should be a square that is 18 to 20mm or more. We can not easily drill

the holes. Otherwise, the mortise shrink in a few days.

3  Wooden tongue rammed earth material is harder than under heating system material,

then the hard wood contractile force is small. The under heating system is not easy to pull

up, so that we could maintain the stability.

4  In some room, the ground level height has several centimeters difference. In this time,

carpenters would mat some knife-shaped cork and plywood to make sure the  under

heating  systems are flat. But we should not forget that if we mat the under heating system

more than 2.5 centimeters, we should fix the short under heating systems each other to

prevent wobbling and ensure the flatness.

5  When drilling hardwood floorings, the aperture should be less than the flooring nails.

Only do that can the wood floorings fix better.

6  The surroundings of the walls should preserve 1 centimeter or more shrinkage gap to

avoid expansion due to climate change and moisture content.

Small details would finally influence the quality of   hardwood floorings. Please take care of

installation details!