Choosing the right hardwood flooring for your house may seem like an easy task, you can just go to a store and pick a design, right? Well, the reality is a bit different. While choosing a specie and finish, people make mistakes that can easily be avoided. This is the reason why you see so many homes with defected hardwood flooring. Listed below are a few of the common mistakes committed while shopping for a hardwood floor, and how to avoid them. […]
Hardwood floors add the much needed warmth and richness to your house. Many people think that these floors are expensive, and require a lot of maintenance, which is not entirely true. If you are looking for flooring options, then read this blog which will help you make up your mind. […]
Hardwood floors are the holy grail of flooring. These gorgeous and lustrous floors are the kind you would want to pass on to your grandchildren, but for doing that, you would have to adopt a routine which ensures their proper care and maintenance. Here are some of the best advices from around the web at your disposal that will keep your hardwood floors happy! […]
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 [...]
Oak Grading Standard Oak is very popular sale species all over the world. We supply Russian Oak, European Oak Engineered wood flooring for large quantity. We define Oak into A, B, C, D grade. You can download grading definition from below link: http://www.lordfloor.com/download/wideplank-oak-grading-standard/ Normally we sell our products in AB (premium), ABC (Natural), CD (Rustic), DE (Antique). Because of the wood natural characteristic. All of the grading has target market. Veneer Grading is the first step for engineered wood flooring production in our factory, Below is the [...]
How do we control Moisture content for engineered wood flooring? The moisture content of Engineered wood flooring is normally 8+-2%, It can be a 2% more or less depends on the climate of client's target market. For example, we do 10-12% for Philippine market, but we do 6-8% to Netherlands. We use moisture Tester from Netherlands AB company. We do moisture control from the beginning to the end of production many times. When we are selecting veneers, after kiln dry, after gluing, and after [...]
There isn't much that adds as much value and elegance to a home than having wood flooring installed in any room. There is a certain reputation of class that comes with hardwood floors and the materials are durable, long-lasting, and match virtually any cabinet / wall paper / trim décor. The two main types of wood flooring are solid wood and engineered wood. Solid wood, or hardwood as it's commonly known, is a single stock piece of wood usually around 3/4” thick. Engineered wood on [...]
Three Common cut wood to get Timber Material-Saw, Slice and Rotary Most people are aware that wood material comes from a log. What many don't know though is that there are three different method to cut wood to produce different results from the log and those are sawing, slicing, and using rotary. In order to understand how wood is processed from a log it's important to know a little about the log itself. In engineered wood flooring the final function and style of the surface [...]
What's the difference between traditional bamboo and strand-woven bamboo flooring? How do we get material from bamboo? After harvesting the mature bamboo stems are split in longitudinal direction and the louter skin is removed. The strips naturally have a light yellow colour (natural), but can be steamed and thermally treated for a light brown colour (carbonized). After treating and drying, the strips are ready to be connected in several ways to make the final product. Strips are placed horizontally and glued together to create a wide [...]
How do we do flooring quality control? The Quality Control of our Engineered wood flooring happens all the time in the factory: 1. When we got the S4S dried timber, we will firstly check the grading/Size & Moisture. If the size is not enough, we will sort them out. If the grading is out of grading range, we sort them out. If moisture is not good (not balance or high), we will put them back to klin dry. 2. We saw the [...]
