Wooden floor in the apartment? Are you serious (budget solution that looks expensive)
I used to dream about their own wooden house with a cozy pine smell. But alas - the crisis landed in a little ambition and enough money for an apartment. Based on the modest budget had to look for options to save to finish. Sex - one of the most expensive repair items. Considered everything: acrylic floor heating, tiles, engineered timber, carpet... The architect who designed my apartment, proposed a completely custom option: put on the floor pine board on the joists, sand, cover good varnish. The offer seemed so unusual that at first I was not sure. Numerous relatives discouraged, scared that all the spoiled-rassohnetsya. There are already included stubbornness, and I decided to go for a version with a wooden floor.
What are the perceived problem?
- For best results you need to find a well-dried, high-quality material.
- So how was the wet transfer point - about 2 meters of pipes have to be hidden in the floor.
- Electrical cable also like to hide in the floor to reduce the need shtrobleniya walls.
- Often in older homes, where rickety wooden floor with every step rattling dishes in the cupboards, it was necessary to solve the problem.
- Protect wood from damage.
- Pine - a fairly soft wood, the coating must be durable so that it lasts longer.
When my neighbors flooded building by crane torn, and they threw their turned inside out inside the laminate floor - I no longer doubted that the floor in my apartment will be wooden.
So I chose not pine over the Internet, and in person, on the construction markets. Opened two-pack, looking quality connections, the number of knots, the degree of drying. Laghi bought there.
Builders are treated each lag impregnated wood against rot and mold.
With trumpets did a very simple - poured a small portion of the screed - just under a working kitchen area, laid on top of the tiles. The same thing - a built-in kitchen cabinets. Thus, the clatter of dishes in the cupboard, and floods are excluded. Index - to calculate the thickness of the screed so that it coincided with the height of the wooden floors, to take into account the thickness of the tiles. Between the wooden floor and the screed vertically installed cushioning pad.
Electric cable laid in a metal sleeve. At the bottom of the joists have cut recess and route the cables on the floor under the joists. I must say that the cabling in the walls was carried to work with wood. You need to wet all of the work to complete before the apartment bring the board, as the wood absorbs moisture and can then give a big gap in the floor.
Setting the lag to be close enough to the floor then do not creak and do not "walk". We have established a distance of 40 cm. Vapor barrier is placed on the joists, nailed stapler.
And then - laying boards in the castle.
Floor-mounted polished using a grinder, thoroughly vacuumed and how to varnish rapidly. I chose Petry varnish - durable, solid, one drawback - a little expensive. The primer of the same company, then two coats of varnish.
A few days to dry the floor. Then mounted the plinth, overlap joints with tile.
All those who came to visit me, admire the atmosphere created by my beautiful pine floor - the smell of wood barely noticeable, but gives comfort. Paul warm, pleasant to the touch. I love to walk home barefoot. Maintenance - conventional, vacuum cleaner and wet cleaning. Dropped water - nothing wrong with it. But heavy objects sometimes leave small dents. However, the pros outweigh. It really was a budget solution that looks expensive and respectable.
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