subject: Hardwood Flooring [print this page] Floor occupies most of the space of the houseFloor occupies most of the space of the house. Floor give beauty to the house, depends on the floor a house may be good, bed or wonderful. There are many aspects in floor which make it beautiful and durable some of them are material, color, design. The most widely used floor is hardwood flooring. Hardwood flooring is made of wood or using bamboos. Hardwood flooring is very common in countries were winter temperature fall below zero.
Hardwood flooring can be solid or engineered. The solid flooring consists of a flooring pattern where the wood is directly derived from a single piece of timber and used without any altercations of any engineering kind. The engineered wood flooring will consist of several layers of planks and engineered according to the needs of the house. Engineered flooring usually is made up of a top layer and a core layer. The core layer provides the strength and the top layer gives the aesthetic appeal of the floor. Only the top layer is visible. Nowadays, engineered wood flooring is commonly used in most parts of the world except in North America where the solid hardwood flooring dominates over engineered wood flooring.
The producing process is also different for Solid and designed wood for the flooring purposes. Solid wood is cut as flat sawn, quarter sawn and rift sawn. The devised wood is composed of manufacture of top layer and the core layer separately. The major element of the manufacturing process is the installation system. This installation system can be of different strategies like Tongue and groove method, Click systems system, Floor connection system, Cut Peel technique, Rotary system, Dry solid-saw strategy and plenty of other strategies.
The Hardwood floored homes bear extensive range of temperatures and are significantly resistive of diverse categories of odorous substances and moisture. They need tiny upkeep and can be kept glittering new with just the common sweeping and mopping. The classy appeal of the flooring is given through the finishing touches in the producing process. This is done according to the wants of the patrons and owners of the house in which the flooring is to be installed.
The steps involved in the finishing process are summarised in this section. First, the type of floor finish is chosen. This can be done depending upon the flooring type and amount of shine needed. Two popular floor finishes are Poly urethane, which uses oil based poly urethane or straight poly urethane and Oil, which uses natural oil for finishing purposes. The next step is sanding. Sanding is the process of smoothing the installed hardwood floor. This is done to remove any uneven surfaces in the floor. This process is usually carried out using a sand paper in addition to which, oils and waxes may be used. That explains the process of how the hardwood flooring come into existence. These floors are used in wooden houses, offices, factories and other places as they provide a well finished, beautiful and durable solution for the problem of flooring.
