The original flooring - laminate plywood

One of the most popular floor coverings laminate can now be considered, got a leading position through a combination of decoration with decent specifications. However, the price of the issue is such that the coating segment of the budget, both visually and by the performance properties of "obscenities", but the more expensive line, not all available. To get and tough, and durable, and attractive, and accessible trim, you can do an imitation of the laminate.

How to make a laminated plywood

As the source code for making a laminate may be suitable even analog Used construction trays, flowing on plates. Get even more realistic, since it is possible to do without the cut and do not have to simulate the texture of wood. But not everyone has such a raw material, while the plywood is sold in any store or hypermarket the profile at an affordable price, and therefore will be considered as the basis for a self-made laminate. Process floor tiling stepwise.

Preparation of plywood - the sheets to dissolve tablets

Such instruments are few and almost everyone who occasionally something does handicraft with their own hands or faced with the repair work, there is one. Suitable for cutting plywood:

• electric jigsaw;
• a circular saw;
• Handmade jigsaw;
• hand saw.

Of course, when talking about paving an area of ​​a couple of squares really do hand tools, if the scale of solid, without electrical overpower them is very difficult. The fastest way to dissolve the plywood through circular saw, disc only needs to be a fine-toothed, equipment with major damage can cut. Jigsaw will have to try to sustain the ideal cutting line, otherwise there will be problems when installing the interface of the plates. If in the arsenal - just a hand saw (from the same small teeth), but there is a strong desire to overpower Plywood laminate fabric is necessary to conduct smoothly: abrupt jerks or stops - it is more likely to deform slice.

In the presence of a milling machine plywood coating will practically not inferior source - sufficiently cut into plates spikes and notches for reliable fixation. In this case, when laying thin seams are obtained, as in the present laminate. But even without the groove connection system will be visually lined it to imitate, though in a manner closer to laying parquet. Dimensions simulation must coincide with the dimensions of the original - Plate width 18-19 cm and a length of 1.2-1.3 m Regarding the thickness, it is selected, based on the. the desired effect: the higher the permeability of the room, the thicker should be plywood, but it is hardly appropriate to do an imitation of a material thinner 6-7 mm.

Paving

As is the case with the original styling requires an even surface, which can achieve both filling finishing composition for alignment (if the differences are minimal), and laying subfloors of plywood construction or OSB. The use of specialized or polyethylene foam substrate depends on the processing method. If the plywood plates cut grooves and spikes, the substrate current. Some further after fixation in the groove in the punch ram studs seam.

Imitation without milling on the base paste, the most tightly fitting the plates to each other, using a special water-resistant adhesive based on polyurethane. But in this case do without the substrate, and if necessary additional insulation is placed under the subfloor insulation, e.g. Epps or other material.

Processing cover

To show the texture of plywood, the upper layer of which is known to be made of fine wood veneers stacked coating must be sanded. You can use a special sander or grinder with an appropriate nozzle. First grind with coarse abrasive, the second passage - with small, rough grinding is performed perpendicularly to the wood grain finish - in the longitudinal direction.

The coating is suitable for simulating a painting varnish or tools based on natural oil and wax - colorless or tinted. For greater reliability can be enhanced by the effect of "wood" pattern with a special staining technique:

• The first cover layer plywood composition a light brown hue.
• After drying, slightly sand the texture along fine abrasive.
• The second cover layer structure of dark brown tint - fragmentarily coating is applied on freshly painted surface immediately makes print special rubber stencil.

Another way - after cutting dies paint, put, polish (fine abrasive) and apply a decorative and protective oil, wax or lacquer. Decorative imitation in this case can be increased by applying several different shades of the same range - from dark to light, as when laying alternate dies in a random order. In any event, the second of the floor exactly, no one will, at least in the pre-painting, though at the finish.

Another technology for creating exclusive with minimal cost - the material on hard floor covering. We need a durable floor that is not afraid of any impact - for you polished concrete.In the video - about the intricacies of painting wood flooringTo which, by and large, can be attributed, and plywood.

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