Tips on how to enhance your interior with Parquet Flooring Part 1
Are you looking to upgrade your interior but aren’t sure where to start? Whether you’ve recently moved into a new home and want to make it yours or just want to glam up your interior, parquet flooring might seem a challenging and even daunting option. Yet, it doesn’t have to be. Adding a well-chosen statement piece or refurbishing some [...]
The Importance of Testing for Moisture Before Installing Parquet Flooring
Are you planning to install parquet flooring in your property and are wondering how to achieve the best results? Parquet flooring is increasingly popular, and for good reason. Installing parquet flooring in a home can instantly enhance the floor space and give it a sophisticated and polished finish. But that’s not all. Parquet flooring is durable and easy to [...]
Understanding the two fitting systems for parquet & plank flooring
To understand the two styles of fitting parquet flooring or plank flooring and systems of how they are fitted, gluing down or fixing systems involves putting parquet flooring or plank flooring directly over concrete. Any timber in parquet flooring , engineered or plank flooring is a product that is constantly changing in dimension. Timber takes on and loses moisture [...]
Parquet Flooring – Floating Installation
If engineered hardwood parquet flooring is installed using the float flooring method it can be started in different ways depending on what way your fitter prefers. You can start by marking out your main center line in each separate room depending on the amount of parquet flooring that has to be fitted; this layout is similar to the glue [...]
Parquet Flooring – Glue Installation
Installing parquet flooring is pretty much the same set up as installing plank flooring, the same principle applies to both when it comes to striking your lines. The first thing that must be done when it comes to gluing down your parquet flooring is to get a straight line down the middle. Once you know the direction you want [...]
Parquet Flooring – Timber Subfloor
Something that I always notice when I have installed parquet flooring, is when a person walks into the room, they are instantly impressed with the parquet flooring and how their eyes light up as the colouring and the polish takes place. Today there is a wide variety of parquet flooring available in many colours, sizes, and species. MM Parquet [...]
Parquet Flooring – Concrete Subfloor
There are a few issues to consider when it comes to bonding a parquet floor to a concrete subfloor. Like all surveys for parquet flooring the first thing is to check the moisture in the concrete. There is a small rule of thumb that I have used for many years for the natural drying of a concrete floor and [...]
Parquet Flooring
In this blog I want to talk about parquet flooring and the many different aspects of parquet flooring and what I have learned about this amazing design that has stood the test of time for generations. For the past 35 years I have been fitting all types of flooring and parquet flooring. I have seen the many different manufacturing [...]
Herringbone & Basket Weave Parquet Flooring
For this section of my blog I am going to write about two of my favourite Parquet designs. The word parquet is a french word that was used to describe when many pieces of small timber blocks are assembled together to make up a geometrical pattern or design of your choice and when you introduce different type of exotic [...]
Hardwood Floors Gluing System
In this blog post I would like to talk about the different ways of installing floors and the advantages and disadvantages. Over the years I have fitted many different ways, the first was secret nailing system, which involved nailing each plank as you went which was great for clamping slightly warped boards, but this in turn would create [...]