subject: Hardwood Floors In Ottawa: Getting Ready For The Installations [print this page] Starting with your new house, or just getting that good old house a new look? Then let Ironwood Hard Flooring and Decking give you the best flooring solutions!
Ironwood Hardwood Flooring and Decking is one of the best hardwood floors suppliers in Ottawa. It has a wide range of choices on hardwood floorings which you can choose from --- exotic hardwood, Canadian and Asian hardwood, Bamboo, Cork, Ceramic Tile, Laminated Tiles, Garapa and Brazilian Ipe hardwood for decking. With a vast selection on hardwood products, you can choose what really suits you and your home from patterns, to textures, to colors which all make a say to your lifestyle and living. They install hardwood floors --- customized requests on decking or special installations on hardwood, Ironwood Hard Flooring and Decking does it best. But if you want to do the installation job, Ironwood Hard Flooring and Decking can help you along the way by these preparations you have to consider to avoid the spoil on those gorgeous floorings.
Before you get your floorings delivered, check the conditions of your site: all wet works should be dry or else you'd end up creating a big mess. Inspect coverings of walls; these should be in place and painting is ready for the final coat on the base molding. Also check on the exterior grading. Surface drainage should be having a minimum drop of 3" in 10' (8cm in 3m) to direct the flow of water away; gutters and downspouts should be ready. The crawl spaces are with a minimum of 18 (45cm) from the ground to the underside of the joists. These should have a perimeter venting equivalent to a minimum of 1.5% of the crawl space square footage. These vents should be properly located for cross-ventilation. It is also important to have a ground cover of black polyethylene film (6-10 mil) to act as vapor barrier with joints lapped six inches (15cm) and keep them secured with tape. Make sure that heating systems and air-conditioning units should be installed and are operational already since installation of these equipments might cause scratches and damages to the floorings. Room temperature should be consistently at 16 to 24 C, with a relative humidity of 40 to 50% 14 days prior to installing hardwood floors, during the procedure, and until such time that the site is occupied to maintain the good condition of the hardwood floorings.
Now, you already have your tiles with you, freshly delivered by Ironwood Hard Flooring and Decking. When unloading or transferring these hardwood floorings, handle these with utmost care since these are fragile and mistakes in handling might ruin their condition. Store these stocks in a dry place, providing at least ten centimetres or four inches of air under the boxes. To get the best of your floorings, store them in the installation area 24 to 72 hours before the procedure.
Preparations are important to consider since a lot of things happen in this phase which might cause good or bad results in the end. In getting your floors done, it is important to take things slow and sure, or else we'd end up wasting our cash and our efforts.
