Click system or Tongue and Groove? Normally there are two kinds of floor joints they are Click System and Tongue & Groove. Tongue and Groove is a traditional joint way for floor installation. One side and one end of the plank have a groove, the other side and end have a tongue. The tongue and groove fit snugly together, thus joining or aligning the planks, and are not visible once joined. Tongue-and-groove flooring can be installed by glue-down (both engineered and solid), floating (mostly [...]

3-layer or multi-ply? Which is better? When new player walk into flooring business and ready for buying from China, they always confused about which structure of floor to order. Normally in China engineered wood flooring factory they sell 2 kind of structure flooring: Multi-ply (Multi-layer) 3-layer. (3-ply) How are the 3-layer or Multi-ply Flooring being made? 3-layer Engineered Flooring is construction with grains running in different directions reduces the natural swelling and shrinking of the wood. The Surface layer Lamella is normally 3-4mm Sawn cut [...]

To get the flooring made with the right bevel style is very important. When you place the order with the flooring factory, this is a serious technical information need to confirm. If the bevel is not right, even the finish, the Joint, grading everything is perfect, the floor will still looks very urgly and difficult to sell in the market, which means the failure of the business. E.g: Below floor is the unvarnished super wide plank with 2200 Long x 300 Wide, But the [...]

Engineered Hardwood Flooring Maintenance To maintain the natural beauty and durability of your new Engineered wood floor, please keep the following points in mind: Color variation in flooring is a natural occurrence due to species, age, grade of flooring, and exposure to sunlight or UV light. Each piece of wood is naturally unique so your flooring will display a variety of color, even within a box of one flooring grade. Unlike carpet or tile, it is the artistry of the flooring installer that decides the [...]

What kind of Coating do we apply on prefinished flooring? Lord Parquet is applying Hardwood and Engineered wood flooring with many different coating finish: Anti-scratched UV Lacquer prefinish We use Germany Treffert AL2O3 anti-scratched UV lacquer coating to achieve lacquered flooring products. Normally we do 7 layers (5 botton coat and 2 top coat) The products we are using is as below: PRODUCT NO. PRODUCT DESCRIPTION 4713310000 Water based UV adhesive 6113400000 UV transparant putty 6113580000 UV Putty 6613021000 UV white bottom lacquer coating 6613600000 UV bottom lacquer for sanding 6613420000 UV transparant bottom lacquer 6613470000 UV antiscratched bottom lacquer 6613310000 UV reparing stuff 6613321000 HPC UV anti-scratched surface coating 10°Matt 6613329000 HPC UV anti-scratched surface coating 90°Gloosy [...]

How much does 1sqm flooring cost when you order from China? Firstly, This is not an easy topic. Let's focus on the situation of year 2015. We will write articles for the same topic every year since the changing situations. Secondly, this is an article for those new players who'd like to begin business of importing flooring from China. It's transparent to tell you all the truth. There are several important aspect influence the flooring cost, e.g: type of floor, size of floor, shipping [...]

Click System Flooring Installation Guide INTRODUCTION Wood material acts after the surrounding climate, the main factor is the relative humidity (RH, %). High humidity means the wood - expands; low humidity - it shrinks. So also all your furniture and all wooden floors. Due to this natural property you must attend to the instructions below. SUB-FLOOR PREPARATION The sub-floor must be completely dry. A new concrete slab will usually take 90 to 150 days to dry thoroughly depending on size of slab and weather conditions. The moisture [...]