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.

What if the wood floorings get damp? How to deal with this problem?

In every rainy seasons, floorings are easy to get damp, especially wood floorings. If the

floorings become damp seriouly, they would muster. The life span would reduce greatly.

Therefore, we should take prompt action to avoid moisture.

Reasons why wood floorings get damp

1. humidity indoor are large in rainy days
2. the rooms are closed and unventilated
3. the quality are poor; installations are unreasonable
4. wooden materials are easy to absorb water

Solutions to wood flooring dampness

1. close the window in rainy days, while add ventilation in sunny days. As in rainy days, humidity outdoor is large. We should prevent moisture to invade in the rooms. In sunny days, ventilation is beneficial to evaporate.
2. Economically permitted, we could use dehumidifiers.
3. Open the air-conditioner, change to dehumidifying mode.
4. Use the drier to dilute moisture.
5. Normally, many families use old newspapers or cardboard. This    method has proved to be rewarding.

We would all meet the problem of hardwood flooring dampness. We hope we can help

you to solve the problem. If you have better idea, you can contact us.

Restoration of hardwood flooring

Hardwood floorings are soft, elegant and good-looking, but they are expensive. Their

wear resistance is poor. Thus, we should pay attention to them while using. Sometimes,

when we are careless and the solid wood flooring will be scratched, then how to restore

them?

Restoration of hardwood floorings should be done according to the degree of

damage

There are several ways to restore solid wood floorings. Coating restoration, restoration

on a certain area, restoration entirely. In terms of solid wood floorings, if it is just damaged

for a small area, we do not need to restore it. Instead, we can choose to put furniture or

carpet to cover the damaged area. If there are some minor scratches, we can invite the

after-sales staff in factory to restore by painting them. If they are damaged for a large

area, we have to install again. If the condition is more serious, we have to reinstall the floor.

details of restoring solid wood floorings

At first, although lacquered wood floorings can reach repair effect, we can not ensure that

we reach environmental protection standard. Therefore, we’d better invite after-sales

service staff to do lacquered restoration. We could ensure repair effect and environmental

pretection if we use specialized restoration paint or gel.

Next, for partial restoration, we should break those whihc need to replace, and then take

them out. We can use tools to chisel a gap between the floorings needed to replace, then

saw their surface, split them into pieces and get them out. During this peocess, we should

make sure that we would not damage the surrounding  hardwood flooring. After taking out

the floorings, we shall clean up the glue to ensure that the cleaned mortises are convenient

to install. If we do not clean them up, the seam will come to be unflat or untight. When

dealing with glue, we can use new floorings to slide on the joint to find out the remaining

vestige and keep the floorings good-looking.

Details needed to notice when replacing new solid wood floorings

Saw the rabbet of the second part of solid wood floorings and clean the whole rabbet. We

should preserve some room. Put glue onall sizes of the original and new rabbet, then put

them on the interspace. At first, we can put the angles of long size and short size to the

original rabbet, then press it and use specialized tools to smash it. Please aware that before

installation, we shall measure whether the length is the same as the new wood floorings.

If the new solid wood floorings are longer, we can shorten them. If they are shorter, we

have to change them, and this will cause losses.

Floor maintenance: floor lacquer is the "face"

Good wood flooring care and maintenance lead a healthy life, good care for

consumerslaying wood flooring is an essential step. And first we must take care of the

lacquer surface of the floor, as the floor "face" plays an important role, in addition to show

the external appearance of the floor better, but also to show the charm of delicate beauty

of brand. But as the lacquer is different, maintenance methods are not the same.

First we begin with a wide paint and lacquer flooring, as the higher class of these two

lacquer coatings, its effectiveness is also very significant not only has good water

resistance, high temperature resistant performance, and has a gradient of natural features,

the color gradually turn from deep to light. But it is noteworthy that don’t use low-

temperature water to clean regularly.

The polyurethane painted flooring has a strong temperature resistance, corrosion

resistance and acid resistance and other characteristics. Generally it needs to bemaintained

every several months or half yearby using wax, usually in the course, using a soft towel or

cotton to erase the dust. But not water, avoid to wipe the liposomes on the surface, which

reduce the surface gloss.

Flooring lacquer is the "face" of hardwood flooring, everyone in daily life should be easy to

find the hardwood flooring becomes very old after a long use, maintain the gloss

lacquered flooring should be timely, so maintenance is no doubt the way to keep your

flooring eternal youth, but also extend the life of flooring.

Good flooring, good face, you deserve!

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!

Explanation on the structures and surface technics of laminate flooring

When people are choosing laminate flooring, it is undoubtably that we would consider the

 base  material. Then, the surface technics are also very important which influence the  

wearness of laminate wood floorings directly. Today, we will tell you the structure and 

surface technics of laminate wood floorings to help consumers have a better understanding 

of them.

At first, we will give you a brief introduction of the structure of laminate wood floorings. 

From the bottom up, they are balance layer, base material layer, decoration layer, wear-

resisting layer. The so-called surface technics is wear-resisting technics.

For texture, we have aluminium oxide, melamine, and piano lacquer.

Standardized laminate wood floorings should have aluminium oxide wear-resisting paper. 

They are 46g, 38g, 33g or lower. Our country has stipulated that the wear –resistance of 

the surface of laminate wood floorings should be more than 6000 stroll. Only the 46g 

wear- resistance paper can ensure that requirement.

Melamine coatings are used in wallboard, desk etc which do not require high wear 

resistance. In the flooring industry, we call it ‘false floors’. Its wear-resistance stroll is only 

300-500. If we use it as wood floors at a great intensity, two or three months can tear the decoration 

paper. However, standardized laminate floorings can normally use 10 to 20 years and will not have 

these problems. This kind of floor does not have wear-resistance on the surface. It looks clear, good, and 

feels soft. That is why outsiders are easy to be cheated.

Piano lacquer coating is in fact the coating on the hardwood floorings.

From the characteristics on the surface, we can also divided into embossed surface and 

crystal surface.

  1  Crystal surface are lustrous, smooth, wear-resisting and easy to take care of.

  2  Embossed surface has no distinction with crystal surface from the positive surface. But 

from the negative surface, we can feel the wood grain shape pattern. Embossed surface are 

personalized and beautiful, but if we use the same weight wear-resistance paper, the 

wearness of crystal surface is higher.

Blog of CNL wood flooring: Are there any worms in the wood of your house?

Blog of CNL wood flooring: Are there any worms in the wood of your house?: If we discover worms in the  wood flooring s, we should replace them partly. Otherwise, the worms would spread around. Then, why the  wo...

Are there any worms in the wood of your house?

If we discover worms in the wood floorings, we should replace them partly. Otherwise, the

worms would spread around. Then, why the wood floorings would have worms?

The reasons why wood floorings have worms are as followed: wood floorings themselves do

not deal with the worms inside when they are dried under high temperature. Under

normal circumstances, worms would hatch half a year later. Keels are not qualified. As we

do not deal with drying and worm-killing, the wood would produce more and more worms.

Therefore, it is recommended that we should check clearly. It takes half a year that the

worms come out. The hatchery period is also half a year. If a year has past, it is possible

that other worms would come. If the keel has worms itself, and we do not find out, the

conditions will be more and more severe. Maybe the operators put the insect-resist agents

under the plastic film, the agents can not play their roles perfectly. Normally, it is plain

plate that appear worms. The unlacquered hardwood floorings would not have worms.

Technical problem may be one of the reasons that would have worms, but not all the

worms are produced in wood. As for qualified  hardwood floorings, they would not have worms

normally. Then what are other reasons?

As domestic decoration have to use many wood floorings and chipboard, many of them are

easy to have worms when they meet with suitable temperature, humidity and non-

professional insect-resist dealing. Besides, worms can easily damage wood. It is

undoubtably that insects is the key invader. Therefore, when the wood floorings have

worms, only can we control them that we can treat the worms.

Another phenomenon is that the worms actually come from under the hardwood floorings.

However, it is not surely the fault of wood floorings. Many consumers are care about the

quality when installing, but they ognore the quality of keel. If the keel have high moisture

content, or the woods do not do insect-resist agents, it may cause unexpected effect.

lacquered wood floorings better or natural oiled wood floorings ?

In China, wood flooring companies often paint the surface when processing. However,

European companies like to use natural oil painting. Why?

First, it is the matter of aesthetics. In early times, people think that wood floorings with

good luster, smoothness, hardness and strong painting surface are favorable. Later, they

discovered antique floorings, which makes advancement in aesthetics. Nevertheless,

foreigners think that feelings are very important. You can take off you shoes and have a

try. You would find that the feeling of bare foot on flat floors and natural oil floors are

different. Paint film floors are sticky, while natural oil floors are more comfortable and

natural, especially in summer. Nowadays, some of the companies in our country began to

learn European enterprises. They use natural oil to paint the surface. This kind of wood

floorings feel beautiful and soft.

Second, it is the matter of wood flooring management. In the eyes of most people, the

lacquered surface is better to manage than the natural oil surface. Really? In fact,

foreigners have gone through this problems. No matter how well we paint the wood

floorings, after few years frition, the wood floorings would have more and more scratches.

With time go by, you would feel worse and worse so that you would like to replace them.

But it consumes much energy to replace the  hardwood floorings. Then can you imagine how the

foreigners would do? They would clean the floors well, find several pieces of sandpapers,

and sand them. Then they brush some natural oil. One or two days later, you would find it

more tasteful. Although ten years have past, there would be no place that is damaged. You

only to find it more antique. However, paint surface can not do this.

Third, it is the matter of environmental concept. To sum up, UV painting is environmental.

It can reach country’s standard. But it does not mean there is no toxic content inside. It

just contains a little. We have to see what paint you would use. On the other hand, natural

oil is distilled from plants. Pure natural oil does no harm to people. Surely, in order to

reduce cost, some people add some chemical products into it. As long as you smell it, you

would feel tense.

The installation of natural oiled hardwood floorings is simple. Thus, the production cost is lower than

paint. But we have to pay attention to the quality of natural oil. So far, people have a simple

understanding on natural oiled hardwood flooring
s. Merchants have to guide them. Maybe some special

group are suitable to this concept. We believe that in the future, more and more people

would accept it. It is a trend.