One of the final stages in the construction of his own home is its interior decoration as a whole and laying a sex board in particular. You need to start this work with a thorough choice of materials, since the quality of the future sex largely depends on this.
Floorboard: how to choose
First you should decide on the decoration of which room the floorboard is selected. For residential rooms, they choose a board of spruce or pine trees, for bath steamers — from aspen or linden, for the decoration of open terraces — a board of larch or composite materials. The difference between the floorboard and the usual is the presence of on the first grooves and spikes designed to dock the boards among themselves.
The sexual board can be sold both in the package (in this case, the price is indicated for the pack), and by the piece — in this case, the price is indicated either for one cubic meter or for one piece. An unlucky board stored on the street or under an open canopy may not be dry enough to lay on the floor, so before buying it should be found out from the seller how long it is stored, as well as the degree of its humidity. You can also determine the quality of the board yourself: a good floorboard should be dry to the touch (and you need to touch the board around its middle), when tapping with your fingers, make a loud sound, and also do not have blue-green rotten and white plaque.
The thickness of the floorboard can vary from 26-28 mm (the so-called Europol), up to 35-38 mm. At the same time, a thinner floorboard is most often sold in packages and is reduced to the cubic meter by an order of magnitude more expensive. A sexual board, the thickness of which is more, almost always sold by a piece or in cubes, while its moisture is in most cases higher than that of the packaged and may require additional natural drying. So that the already laid boards do not “led” (this does not apply to boards from composite materials) in any case, you should be reinsured and, laying the boards with a stack through wooden gaskets or decomposing on the floor, leave them for at least a month (ideally for a year) at room temperature.
Important! When buying the sex boards, the price of which is indicated for a cubic meter, it is worth knowing that the cubature of one board is calculated only by its working width without taking into account the spike. You can find out the cubature of several boards by multiplying the width by the length and by thickness in meters, as well as by their number in pieces: for example 0.12 (width) * 0.035 (thickness) * 6 (length) * 5 (quantity) = 0.126 m3. At a cubic meter cost of 15,000 rubles, the cost will be 0.126*15000, that is, 1890 rubles.
Laying Paul Boards: Preparation
Find out the required number of board you can divide the area of the room into an area of one board. However, the easiest way is to buy boards of the length that will coincide with the length of the room, since it is not recommended to join the floor boards, because over time they can “disperse”. In this case, you only need to divide the width of the room into the width of one board.
Before laying the floorboard, you need to prepare the base for it. In order for the board to lay down evenly, first you need to make a cement screed of the floor and let it dry completely, as well as align all the walls in the room. The concrete floor should also be smeared with bitumen mastic or covered with a vapor barrier film.
If the concrete floor could not be made perfectly even, then as the basis for laying the floorboard it is worth choosing adjustable floors. In this case, plastic bolts are driven into concrete pre -drilled in concrete, on which the lags are attached. A single level of the lag is achieved by rotation of these bolts using a special tool and is checked by the construction level.
If the floor surface is flat, then a wooden dry beam is used as a lag with a size of 100*50 mm, which must be impregnated with an antiseptic in advance. Lags are attached to the floor with self -tapping screws, which are screwed into the plastic dowels driven into concrete half. In the absence of a vapor barrier membrane, the lags can be attached to the floor using the same bitumen mastic. Lags should be laid in parallel to the wall with window openings at a distance of about 60 cm from each other.
If it is necessary to additionally insulate the floors (especially if it comes to the first floor of the building), then a roll or sheet insulation is laid between the lags, preferably based on stone cotton wool. The insulation is covered with a vapor barrier membrane, which is attached to the lags by a construction stapler. On top of the insulation you can lay a plywood 18-21 mm thick, attaching it to the lags with self-tapping screws with a length of 40-50 mm.
Sexual board: styling
Board laying is performed perpendicular to lags. The first board is placed at a distance of about one centimeter from the wall with a spike to it and screwed to a wooden lag across the board. It is very important to choose the most even from stacks as the first board, since the quality of the whole gender largely depends on this.
A lot of controversy is carried out about the further method of attaching the boards to the lags — someone offers to screw the screws into the grooves of the boards (in this case, it needs to be pre -drilled a hole in it), and someone can drill it through the entire thickness. In the first case, the boards are fixed a little better, but to disassemble such a floor without damage to the boards, as in the case of installation in the second way, it is impossible.
For screeding curved boards, wooden wedges and additional emphasis from pruning of the floorboard will be required. Two wedges are placed with sharp ends towards each other and tightly pressed against the mounted board with an exponent temporarily screwed to the neighboring lag. After that, two hammers simultaneously hit both wedges — this will provide the perfect connection of the boards without the formation of gaps.
The last board is mounted in such a way that a technical gap of one centimeter is also formed between it and the wall. The board is cut into the desired width from the spike side and screwed to the lag through the entire thickness. After laying the board, it must be polished — you can do this using a cycle. Before the grinding procedure, make sure that the heads of the screws are well “drowned” into the board.
The laid and polished board can be covered with parquet varnish or special sexual paint. As an additional protection, the board can be pre -lifting or covered with protective impregnation. The finished type of floor will give the baseboard, which can also be painted in one color with a sexual board.