Relatively economical to purchase, the floating parquet is easy to install and clean. Also, it offers a modern style to the room that welcomes it, enough to explain its great success. For you, we decrypt this floor covering and we help you put it.
When choosing your future flooring or changing it, you are looking for information on one of the type of darling parquet of the French, I named the floating parquet! Small overview of its advantages but also of its disadvantages, price per square meter, without forgetting a tutorial to know how to put it.
What is a floating parquet?
The floating parquet owes its name to a type of installation: the blades are glued or clipped together and then placed on an insulating underlay composed of foam or cork. We are talking about “floating” installation because this coating is not directly attached to the ground. The floating prosecution concerns several types of parquet:
- THE laminated prosecutioncomposed of several layers including one in noble wood with a thickness of at least 2.5 mm,
- THE laminate parquetmade of resin and agglomerated, which has a layer of wooden wear.
- There is also PVC floating parquet who comes to imitate wood and so -called so because of its floating pose.
What are the advantages of floating parquet?
The main advantage of the floating parquet is its speed of installation. It is also a very affordable type of parquet (especially if you opt for a laminate parquet), unlike the massive parquet, much more expensive. This flooring is also easy to maintain on a daily basis. And yes, his blades are already pre -treated so no need to wax or re -revise it regularly.
And its disadvantages?
The main drawback of the floating prosecution is its resistance to wear. Unlike the massive prosecution, it has a lifetime. Its upper layer wears out faster, it is therefore necessary to change the parquet completely when it is too damaged. Another problem: the floating parquet may tend to fold slightly under the weight of furniture. If you have heavy enough furniture, in this case provide an incompressible underlay to avoid this type of problem.
What is the price of the floating parquet?
The price of a floating parquet will be much less expensive than a solid parquet, made in a stuck or nailed installation. Its cost will depend on the quality of the blades and the chosen gasoline. For a laminated parquet, we will count between 20 euros and 50 euros per m2 But the price may reach a hundred euros per m2 For a high -end version. The laminate prosecution will be slightly less expensive than the laminated prosecution.
The necessary equipment
In order to place floating parquet like a pro, here is everything you will need:
- a meter,
- A square,
- a paper pencil,
- A cutter,
- a hammer or a rubber mallet,
- a stabbing wedge,
- a skipping saw,
- dilation wedges,
- putty-colle or wood glue,
- plinths,
- a resilient underlay,
- parquet blades.
Soil preparation
In the interests of aesthetics, it is advisable to Place the parquet blades lengthwise the room. Remove the plinths and check the state of the original soil, which must be healthy and well plan. The floating parquet can be placed on tiling or PVC. For the carpet, it is better to remove it before then clean the surface well and let it dry. Cut the doors, cut the foot of the chambranle, and install the resilient underlay for better sound insulation (this reduces the noise of the steps). Glue the bands with adhesive tape. In case of strong ambient humidity, first put a polyane film.
The stages of installation of the floating parquet
- Place small holds all along the walls before placing the blades in the floating parquet (this will compensate for the dilation effect). Please note, the last blade of a row should never measure less than 40 centimeters long.
- Note your blades in each other. Know that from one row to another the blades must be offset. To do this, use the fall in the first row to start the next row.
- Use your typing hold to properly clip the blades.
- For the last row, cut your blades in length, taking care to respect the dilation space.
- The occasional cutouts (location of a pipe for example) are made with a jigsaw after raising the side.
- After an hour, remove the holds and clean the contours of the walls.
- Cut your plinths and fix them using the putty-colle.
- Finally, do not forget to put a door threshold, and planer the underside if necessary.
For cleaning your floating parquet, prefer not to use a vacuum cleaner so as not to mark the surface. Remove the dust using a soft broom then wash your floor using Marseille soap for example. Aggressive detergents must be avoided to keep the appearance of the parquet. Also be sure not to wet the floor too much the surface, because the floating parquet fears humidity.
