Interior design ideas

Today a wide assortment of floor coverings is represented in the market of building materials. In order not to be lost in their variety and to make a right choice, it is necessary to know basic characteristics of each kind of floor coverings.
Parquet - is type of floor covering, which is widely widespread in premises. It represents a wooden block from expensive breeds of a tree with a high density (an oak, a beech, a nut, etc.), laid by “square” or “cold check”. Ready parquet is covered with several layers of varnish. Each four years it is necessary to grind this covering with anew varnish. At correct care the parquet floor is capable to serve for more than thirty years.
Parquet board - it is a three-layer design from natural wood. As to the sizes it is possible to say that it reminds a board from a file, and figure of the top layer simulates piece parquet. It is ecologically pure natural material - it is strong enough, wear proof and durable. The top layer of a parquet board is made of valuable wood breeds - an oak, a beech, a nut, a maple, a birch, a cherry, a tic, an acacia, etc. This layer is responsible for the durability: the more thickly it is, the more polishing it can sustain. An average layer - is a short blocks from resinous coniferous breeds. Bottom - is more often fur-tree or pine plywood. The parquet board should be covered by varnish and impregnated with a mix of oil, wax and natural pitches. Figure of a surface depends on saw cut, therefore it can be homogeneous or with various knots and proveins. Modern technologies allow varying color of an initial material. So, stripping makes wood of a beech more sated; bleaching of an oak and a maple gives light, coldish tone; artificial “oldering” gives the noble deep shade to an oak, causing associations with palace parquet. As well as the piece parquet, a parquet board requires polishing of surfaces - then it can serve for more than twenty years.
Linoleum - is the natural material made of wood flour, pitch, a fuse, chalk and the linen oil, put on a fabric basis. It is durable (about twenty years), water-proof, scratches and dents resistant. However linoleum is complex in use, as it is rather fragile and bursts on bends.
Artificial (commercial) linoleum - is a multilayered covering from PVC. Owing to high durability, scratches and dents resistance (figure is put on all depth of a material), rotting resistance, small heat conductivity and a variety of figure artificial linoleum, it can be used both in houses, and in public premises.

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