Flooring: finishing cork coated
Cork - elegant and decorative coating for your floor. Cork flooring combines functionality with ease of installation and operation. To learn how to properly put a cork floor covering at home, will tell you our stuff.
Cork flooring manufactured by a thick layer of pressed cork (natural cork). Obverse cork cover can be decorated with a decorative veneer, cork or also from a variety of valuable wood. To enhance the reliability of the design surface is covered with a protective layer of lacquer or vinyl.
First of all, we identify several advantages of cork floor coverings:
- Environmentally friendly
- Durability
- Strength
- High sound and heat insulation
- Elasticity
- Easy installation
- antistatic
So when you have decided in favor of cork flooring, you need to properly lay bought strips and / or panels.
There are two types of cork stacking method:
- Flooring Adhesive (fixed using a special contact adhesive)
- Floating floors (without flooring adhesives)
Laying cork floor covering
In order to establish such coverage, you will need:
- The cork plate
- Special glue for cork
- Roulette
- Pencil
- Putty knife
- rubber mallet
- rag
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Prepare the base. It should be dry, clean and smooth.
One day prior to stacking the plates pull them out of the packaging and allow to rest in bed in a room intended for decorating stopper.
Measure out the middle of the opposite walls of the room and divide into 4 parts, having straight lines.
Begin to lay the plates one by one from the central part of the room (at the intersection of the lines).
In previously smeared with glue (use spatula) flooring plank plug tapping plate edge rubber hammer.
Clean rag wipe the plate with their surfaces by removing excess glue.
Stacking plate cork floor covering, you are tight-fit one to the other panel, the lock latching connection.
Note that in this case it is not recommended to remove the plug from the package directly to the most styling.