How to put the cork floor. How to independently put a cork board

Each manufacturer of cork coatings seeks to simplify the installation using modern technologies and developments. In addition, detailed instructions are attached to the products, however, when laying, non-standard situations are inevitably arise, with which only a professional can cope.

Cork floor, especially adhesive type, requires ideal base preparation. The rough floor should be smooth, dry, durable, stable and clean. Any flaws will immediately affect the finishing outdoor coating. That's why stacking Preparation - Key Stage Mounting Cork Coating.

Tube laying services

We offer a full range of installation services for decorative and technical cork coatings:

Cork laminate.
Adhesive floor plug.
Cork wall panels.
Cork wallpaper.
Outdoor cork plinth.
Substrate from cork under laminate, parquet board.
Preparation of the foundation, dismantling old coatings.

Cost of work on laying of cork and walls

Prices for installation of traffic jams are formed after check out the measurer. The final value is affected by the quality of the base floor, the area of \u200b\u200bthe room, the type of fitting plugs. The table shows the current prices for Moscow and the Moscow region without taking into account the cost of traffic jam.

Name of service	Units. Measurements	Price, rubles
Laying of decorative cork coverage on the wall
Laying of decorative cork coverage on the ceiling
Diagonal installation of cork cover on the wall
Simple laying of floor glue tube (4 mm with pre-lacquer in 2 layers) on the prepared base
Diagonal laying of outdoor cork on glue (4 mm with pre-layer pretext) on the prepared base
Installation of floor adhesive cork coating (6 mm with pre-layer pre-layer) on the basis
Diagonal laying of floor adhesive cork coating (6 mm with pre-layer preparing) on \u200b\u200bthe prepared base
Laying outdoor adhesive plinth (without varnishing)	mP
Laying outdoor adhesive plinth (with varnishing)	mP
Laying technical traffic jam on the wall
Staying technical traffic jam on the ceiling
One-sided cut plugs (approach close to fixed parts)	mP
Double-sided cork (butt two materials from cork)	mP
Applying one layer of varnish on floor covering
Finishing preparation of the foundation before laying flooring (grinding, processing of strength putty, primer)
Installation of locking cork on the floor
Installation of locking cork gear diagonally
Pouring bulk floors to a height of up to 10 mm
Pouring bulk floors to a height of up to 20 mm
Pouring bulk floors to a height of more than 20 mm
Manufacture of the floor base of the floor of two layers of GVVV according to the leveling andspeed-insulating layer of dry backfill using technologyTigi.Knauf.(with backfill height not more than 60 mm)
Protecting the surface before laying cork wall coverings
Departure Master in Moscow (for measurement)
Departure of the Master beyond the Moscow Ring Road (for measurement)		1000
Brigade Day outside MKAD		1000
Minimum order cost (brigade day)		3000

Order of work

Request. You can place an order for the installation of traffic jam on the phone, online on the website or in one of our salons.
Departure of a specialist for measurements. After the approval of the details in the approved time, our specialist leaves, who performs measurements and makes notes on the object.
Financial Official. Based on the information obtained, the financial estimate is drawn up, the timing of the work is established.
Preparatory work. Works begin with the preparation of the foundation and dismantling of the old coating, if necessary.
Staying traffic jams. The cork floor is stacked on the prepared base. Depending on the volume and location of the object, work takes 1-2 days.
Communication object. After the installation is completed, cleaning and removal of construction waste is performed - if necessary.

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Family and widespread consumer recognition, the cork floor earned immediately. Comparatively inexpensive and affordable prices, and the ability to lay the coverage on your own without attracting specialists, make cork sex at a more popular and demanded product.

Manufacturers offer the buyer a wide selection and possibility of purchasing, high-quality and available at the price category of analogs and substitutes for a real cork veneer.

It is necessary to know, and understand that there are small nuances and recommendations about laying cork floors. Including, this applies to the choice of all the types of premises without exception. Therefore, it is necessary to carefully prepare, before you go to the store or on the construction market for the choice, and then the purchase of plotting.

It is necessary to try to study like all cork. Otherwise, you risk not only in vain by purchased material, that is, wasted with their money, but also in vain work, due to their inattention.

Categories of flooring from traffic jams:

The most expensive flooring can be bolded - cork boardwhich is made from the real cork of cork oak, its second and most popular name, cork veneer. Veneer is made of absolutely environmentally friendly and harmless, natural and natural material. It produces huge sheets, the size of the sheet comes up to 6 square meters, and its thickness comes from 4 to 6 mm. All sheets are folded into large rolls. It is also known about the production of cork natural tiles. On the reverse side of the sheet, a coating of a durable vinyl film is created, which makes it easy to lay the sheets in the process of working on the surface and on the concrete floor. Despite the serious advantages of the natural cork veneer, it includes many different drawbacks.
Of course, in second place, both in price and, accordingly, in quality, cost cork panels from MDF (Warfather plate, medium density). They are often unreasonably confused with a cork board, but if you figure out, there are significant and considerable differences here. First of all, the panels from the MDF are called - cork laminate. Consider an exemplary technology of its manufacture: the basis of the MDF is imposed, with a dry hot pressing, a real cork crumb. Then impose another layer consisting of a cork veneer, from about 2 to 4 mm. From above, everything is covered with varnish or good vinyl film. In terms of its quality, cork laminate is not inferior to natural veneer, and is not as demanded to the surface and the quality of its coating.
All manufacturers are released cork laminate According to standard sizes, which is the same without exception, for all types of laminate. Meaning the ratio of the length and width of the panels.
The following material will be extruded cork crumb. From the crumbs produced high-quality cork tilewhich is not much expensive at its price. The appearance of the tile is difficult to confuse with something, the structure of small grain, any tile resembles a cork from a wine bottle. Weathered in their unique and colorful sand-coffee palette, with non-refining drawings, they certainly attract the buyer's look in the store. And in quality, the floor made of cork tiles is practically not inferior to the floor covered with a natural cork veneer. And if you compare the costs, the tile floor will be much cheaper than the floor of the whole cork laminate. Manufacturers offer us tiles to choose from, size - 30 by 30 mm, 60 by 60 mm, 60 by 90 mm. Often in stores you can find waste from natural veneer and trimming it look like a tile. You can safely buy and gain good coverage from them, everything depends on your taste and the flight of your imagination.

The floor, made of any cork cover, does not slide at all and does not spring at all. Changes with a significant and weighty load directed at it. Cork floor has excellent noise and thermal insulation. Its most importantly, it is that it is completely harmless to health and one hundred percent environmental. Throughout the history of the use of cork sex, there was never a detrimental effect on the health of people.

With all the advantages and positive qualities of the traffic jam, unfortunately, it also has cons. First of all, it is too big price, but also it is impossible not to note the multi-line and responsible process of its installation. Pretty fragile plug does not tolerate inept and frivolous handling. Without proper experience, to the plot flooring on its own, it is better not to fit.

At traffic jam there is an overestimated threshold of sensitivity to the temperature difference. From this entirely depends on its internal component and appearance. It can swell from water with the content of organic substances dissolved in it. In addition, the plug perfectly absorbs all odors, and for a long time contains them in themselves. If your home has a stopper from the wine bottle, try to return to her the past, or try to get rid of the smell of the part of the plug that was in the bottle. Nothing will work.

Accordingly, on the basis of the foregoing, it can be concluded that the cork floor will not be able to last in the rooms where the temperature fluctuations exist. From any thermal changes, after a small period of time, the traffic jam will become crumble and will be unusable. Therefore, it is not desirable to make cork floors in the hallway, in the kitchen and on the balcony. You can try to put cork laminate with a protective coating, although this is also not advisable.

The most inappropriate places for cork floor, toilet and bathroom. It is categorically impossible! Too much humidity and temperature changes are affected negatively on the traffic jam, with time the microcracks will appear in it, and moisture will receive moisture into the very cork core, and soon the swelling will come to detain. This happens unnoticed, in places inaccessible to our view, under plinths, or under the bathroom.

The cork does not have antiseptic properties, and if you take and open the place of bloating, the so-called bubble, then the unpleasant and not quite looking picture will appear before our gaze. The inner core cork will turn into porridge.
Cork seats

We offer a list of premises for laying of cork floors:

In the first place, a children's room. Any type of cork floor is suitable for the children's room. Children will warm the cork floor with barefoot and winter and summer, when falling on the floor, the child will not be injured. Baking barefoot in traffic favorably affects not only the psyche of kids, but also develops a feeling of communication with wildlife.
In second place, bedroom. The reasons for choosing the same and similar to the nursery.
On the third place, . To the reasons described above, you can add good noise insulation.
In fourth place, living room. The most correct choice will be here, cork laminate.

Technology laying

There are 3 ways to lay cork coverage.

You can lay cork laminate on the principle. The only one must observe some nuances concerning the tool and technology, see below.
You can lay cork laminate and veneer, freely, without much attachment. So it will be called the floating floor.
You can lay the cork floor for glue.

Floating cork and adhesive, laying technology differ significantly. Preparation of the premises to repair remains the same, but the tool for each floor is yours.

Important and probably the most defining factor is that the tube floor should be treated in the warm season. It is necessary to prevent the temperature drop of more than 5 degrees, when delivered from the supplier to the house, where the floor is inland. Be sure to check the humidity of the room indoors, and make sure that it is not lower than 60%. With air humidity 75%, stinging of the cork floor is strictly prohibited.

What will take when working

Rubber hammer, it is called in Cyanka, for laying and fitting the floor. It is possible an electrolovka, with a very small saw or a grinder, for cutting powder. The manual saw cannot be used (the plug is very crumbled). If the floor is adhesive, then you will need a metal and heavy roller (rink), for good rolling. Be sure to need a level.

It will be necessary to make, for floating floors, spacer clogs. They are made of trimming of cork laminate. In no case is not wooden, because wooden will crumble a plug. In order to customize and edit a plank, we use the same rule. Clamp - hook, to pull up a plate, can not be used too.

You need to buy plinth, it is special, for cork floor. Including, the threshings, glue and spatula will be needed, preferably wide in order to smear the glue on the plank.

Mining cork coating

Preparation of the room

The surface for the floor should be as dry and smooth as possible. A simple concrete screed can not serve as a good coating as it has a too rough surface. Over time, the cork floor will play on it. Concrete here acts as an abrasive, accordingly, the plug will be swallowed.

Wet surface, this is the main enemy of the cork floor. It is necessary to dry the surface before work, otherwise the plug will swell and deteriorate. What was written above, in the section on the bathroom and toilet.

In order to check the moisture content of the concrete floor, it is necessary to cover the floor with a greenhouse film for 24 hours. Check, after the allotted time, if there is moisture on the film, leave for another 24 hours. And so right before reaching the desired result, dryness. The wet surface will lead to an inevitably spoiled floor. Especially carefully inspect and close the gaps at the heating batteries, since the moisture can penetrate from the neighbors from the bottom.

Align the floor

Only a liquid equalizer, you need to equate the floor under the plug. The plug is harder than any composite, which is part of all dry alignments. To the same tube in its composition is fragile. The floor, made on a dry basis, can at any time crack from push onto it with a leg of the chair or from a female heel.

The principal, reliability and service life depends on the basis. Experts advise to carry out the plug on the surface, marmoleum. You can and the most inexpensive. You can and non-thendition.

Marmoleum, according to its mechanical properties, is identical with a plug, respectively, after flooring on it, there will be no failures from the load.
Marmoleum smoothly falls on the entire uneven surface of the base and close all its flaws, remaining smooth on top.
Marmoleum owns bactericidal qualities, which means that the malicious microflora does not have chances for both of origin and for its development.

In that case, if the floor is already installed plywood, linoleum or laminate, you can simply make the cork floor from above.

Floating cork

Floating cork floor can be seized from cork laminate or from a veneer. Of course, this work for specialists, as a rule, all attempts to dial the floor independently lead to different kinds of damage to expensive materials. Accordingly, the price of pieces of veneer increases significantly.

Consider in detail how the flooding flooring is made from cork laminate:

We measure the room, make the purchase of the laminate itself. Already in place, at home, unpack and leave open for 24 hours so that the air and humidity temperature is equalized.
While the acclimatization of the cork passes, we will drag the floor with a greenhouse film. We try to make the allen centimeters 20, do not forget to make the overlap and on the walls, centimeters 15. The place of the joints are firmly stuck with scotch.
All the smells of one row, we differ in size from the edge of the ridge, we try not to touch the groove. If we put and shift the seam in half, half of the handwheels from the edge we cut down the length of exactly in the middle.
. From the angle to put the transverse rows and shifting the seams by one third. We take the next plank and insert the previous one in the groove, while trying to keep it under a small angle. Click, with a little effort and omit. Align and customize the cooked pre-rubber image. Be sure to maintain a distance of about 20 or 30 mm from the walls, the extreme hand in line with spacers.
Cut off all excess greenhouse films.
Cork plinth attach to the wall on the mounting glue, pre-laying the matches under it. In order for it not to come into contact with the floor.
Floating cork floor is ready.

Paul on the glue

The quality of the cork on the glue directly depends on the selection of glue itself. From a huge selection, I want to allocate "Casco Flex", and to him like adhesives. Glue, which is based on a volatile aggressive solvent. It does not have toxicity and dries about 10 minutes, time is suitable for fitting board, tiles. The price of this glue and the like, high enough. Based on this, a question arose the possibility of using PVA glue.

Cork sex in no case can be fired with PVA. PVA glue is placed on a water basis, that the plug is harmful. When PVA glue dries, the water evaporates from it, that is, if we put a plate and wait about 25 minutes, it will stick to the tight and will not be corrected. In addition, when working with liquid plow glue indoors, the humidity of the air is strongly increased. Conclusion, PVA glue to use.

Consider the glue cork flooring technology:

We start working by certainly from the center of the room, and move along the spirals in any direction. Left or right, no difference.
With the help of a spatula cooked in advance, we apply a layer of glue, put the table and align.
Immediately ride it with a roller (rink).
We use the level to check the horizontal and the image for its stagement. If suddenly one side of the table is higher or lower than another.
Any glue glue, thoroughly wipe the rag with an impregnated solvent. It is necessary to remember and know that glue that dries on the plug cannot be removed. Therefore, the rod used is desirable to immediately throw out.
We leave along the walls, throughout the perimeter of the room, the gap, the same as for the floating cork floor.
Be sure to wait 24 hours, after the end of the flooring and only then fix the plinth.
Adhesive cork floor is ready.

What is HDF?

Of all the types of cork gear, HDF (high density fibreboard) is the most inexpensive. This material covered on top of an extruded cork crumb. Simply put, this is the usual Fiberboard (woody chipboard), according to its properties and naturally in quality, it is far from the real traffic jam. If you want to create a cheap illusion of cork floor, then HDF, for you.

Outcome

Reliable and durable, harmful or bad? Cork floor may turn out to be any. Much depends on the choice of the room where it will be laid. And the price and technology of laying affects its decorative features.

Cork coating is an excellent option for residential premises in an apartment or a private house. It has excellent decorative, heat and soundproof properties, is distinguished by a long service life with strict compliance with the installation technology. Also, the cork can be laid on other surfaces - the floor or walls. In this original way it is easy to create a stylish room with minimal attachments.

Cost of installation of cork

Exemplary rates for the provision of cork covering services are listed on the site. To learn more accurate cost, you need to contact us. A technologist, which removes the necessary measurements, is completely free on the object and makes up the estimate. It includes the cost of work and materials. If necessary, it is also free of charge, you can get advice with regard to any question of interest, which concerns the installation of the floor or its features of its further operation.

#	Name of works	Units. change	Wen
1	Staying plugs on the wall	m 2.	from 350r.
2	Staying cork on the ceiling	m 2.	from 450r.
3	Laying of decorative cork cover on the wall diagonal	m 2.	from 450r.
4	Laying the floor adhesive cork cover (3 layers of varnish) on the prepared base	m 2.	from 480r.
5	Laying the floor adhesive cork cover (3 layers of varnish) on the prepared base diagonal	m 2.	from 580r.
6	Cut holes under pipeline	pC.	from 350r.
7	Staying plugs on the walls - decoration of the angular joint of the walls	mP	from 300r.
8	Clamp / wall varnishing 1 layer varnish	mp / m2.	from 30 r.
9	Installation of outdoor plinths	mP	from 120r.
10	Laying-on adhesive tube on the floor, walls	m 2.	from 280r.
11	Staying technical traffic jam on the ceiling	m 2.	from 380r.
12	One-sided cork plugs (approach in dense to fixed parts)	mP	from 300r.
13	Two third-party corks (the joint of two materials from the plug)	mP	from 600r.
15	Grinding floor, walls	m 2.	from 30 r.
16	Installation of lock floating cork floor. Simple laying	m 2.	from 250r.
17	Installation of lock floating cork floor. Diagonal laying	m 2.	from 380r.
18	Spilling floor height up to 10mm	m 2.	from 250r.
19	Spilling floor height up to 20 mm	m 2.	from 300r.
20	Bulk floor to a height of up to 30 mm	m 2.	from 350r.
21	Dry screed Knauff up to 6 cm	m 2.	from 450r.

Varieties of coatings

For the floor covering device, several types of material are used - all-slip, crumb-agglomerate, mixed. The highest quality is the plug of the first species, but it is the most expensive. Also, this material is produced in various form, which determines the method of its laying. Allocate:

technical cork. Produced in the form of rolls or large plates;
plates that are installed on glue. They can be rectangular or square;
floating floor. Present MDF panels that are placed by cork.

Installation using adhesive compositions

Laying the floor from the cork with adhesive way is happening like this:

Preparation of the foundation - alignment, removal of contaminants, primer.
The glue is applied both on the plug and on the surface of the base. It should dry for 10-15 minutes, after which you can start to install.
For better fixation of panels, you need to knock the rubber hammer.
A varnish coating is applied to the finished surface.

Installation by floating method

The technology of work implies the presence of such steps:

The basis for the basis (even, purified from contamination) is covered with a thin substrate from the plugs in the form of rolls.
Separate stripes are connected to the adhesive tape.
The plug panels are stacked on the entire floor surface, which form one integer due to the presence of a lock connection.
To obtain a high-quality coating after mounting each board, it is closed with a rubber hammer.

Where to order plot flooring in Moscow?

Our company is engaged in the installation of cork sex in Moscow. We undertake for orders of any complexity and we carry out the laying of the coating in the premises of different areas and functional purposes. Only professionals are working in our company, which guarantees high quality. In the process of completing the order, step-by-step control is carried out, which eliminates any defects. Also, the commissioning of the facility will occur in a previously agreed period, which will satisfy even the most demanding client.

In the building materials market, flooring is becoming increasingly popular. This material is made from the crushed cortex of cork oak by pressing. The perfect floor covering for those preferred with natural materials. Among the advantages of the plugs: resistance to burning, antistaticity, good sound and thermal insulation.

With a detailed study of the question, laying the cork floor with your own hands is not such a complex process. The presence of the necessary tool and the responsible approach will give the opportunity to independently perform the work qualitatively and without attracting specialists.

Installation of cork floor with a lock connection on the technique is similar to the installation of laminate. It is not desirable to fit the cork floor without preliminary laying of a waterproof film. Residual moisture from the floor surface may adversely affect the cork board.

The film is cutting into the strips, and unfolds the mustle, as well as with the launch of the wall. The substrate is laid out on top.

The first panel is placed in the corner of the room, and then they are successively attached to the end to the end with the castle the following tiles.

In the same way, the second and third row is collected. The rows of each other are connected by the lock connection. It is very important that when laying panels there is a compensatory seam between the wall and the coating.

Cork tile with lock connection

If an incomplete range is obtained at the end, the panel is cut. The cut part is the beginning of the second row.

If in width it turns out that the last row will not be complete, the panel is cut along.

There are cases that the panel lock is cut off, and the panel is glued to the glue floor. Such cases are in hard-to-reach places for laying.

Laying cork tile

The essence of laying the locking coating is similar to the floating floor. This method of laying faster and simple. Castle cork floor has only one drawback - not resistance to moisture.

Laying tiles

There are different ways as putting the cork floor. Cork tiles can be stacked as smoothly (tile above tile), and with offset (brickwork). When using the plug panels of the wrong form, it is better to use the second way of flooring. This will help to visually smooth the irregularity of vertical lines due to the different size of cork tiles. The laying method is selected before working at the design stage of the interior.

Methods of laying

Laying in a brickwork technique begins with laying a number of boards. The second row is stacked in such a way that the beginning of the first board is located in the center of the first row board. All subsequent ranks are laid as well. It turns out that each row is shifted relative to the previous series.

Adhesive coatings

Laying adhesive tube on the floor has one feature - it stacked from the center of the room. Because of this, an important stage when laying is the correct and accurate markup. It depends on how the cork floor will look like in the end.

Marking before laying

For marking in the center of the room, the contour is applied parallel to the wall. Nearby apply another line by retreating from the first to the width of two tiles. In diagonal laying, the second line is applied diagonally.

To obtain a beautiful pattern, the cork board is pre-lay on the floor, after which it can be fixed with glue.

The first tile glues perfectly exactly on the markup, because even a small error at first can lead to a significant deviation at the end of the work, and the general picture of the drawing will be corrupted.

Tile glue

Contact adhesive with a spatula is applied to the floor and cork tiles. Glue, applied to the tile, is withstanding for half an hour. Then you need to glue the plate to the floor.

When installing floor, the tiles have a mustache to get a dense connection. The edge of the panel is needed to hold. The free part of the tile is pressed, and the resulting wave smoothes towards the joint. Thus, it turns out a dense junction. Additionally, each joint is confrontated by a rubber hammer for a dense connection.

Alignment of the base

Before you install any material, you need to prepare well for laying. From the quality of the preparation of the basis on which the cork floor will be laid will depend on its operation.

The steps of preparing the basis of the floor are as follows:

Cleaning the surface from pollution;
Alignment of the base;
Seeing the floor surface.

Cleaning the surface from dust and dirt is made with a vacuum cleaner or dry brush. Next occurs the surface leveling process depending on the floor base material.

Vacuuming floor before laying

If a concrete floor acts as a basis, on which there are cracks, pits, disadvantages are removed by cement mortar. If the concrete floor of the curve, there are drops, then align it better with a concrete screed. The surfaces make it possible to dry well to reduce the humidity of the coating. It is recommended to use a polyethylene layer between concrete and a cork coating to protect against possible condensate. Only after the preparatory work is carried out with a glue cork or a lock.

The base in the form of a wooden floor requires verification for the presence of rotten boards. If the floor is uneven, then it is aligned with plywood or chipboard sheets. In this case, the floor will not only with the perfect surface for laying the plug, but also will perform as an additional thermal insulation.

Set of tools

Independent laying of traffic jams on the floor requires to have a tool in arsenal that helps you to work efficiently and effectively.

For flooring of the lock cork coating, you need:

Pencil, to apply markup;
Roulette;
Hacksaw for cutting cork tiles;
Wedges for installation in gaps between the wall and panels.

Tile on the substrate

The adhesive cork flooring requires the presence of the same tool as for the castle floor. Add only to:

Roller or spatula for glue;
Rubber hammer;
Cookware for glue.

Sticking tile

The adhesive plug is glued with glue, which is water based or solvent. When applying glue on a water basis, it should be understood that with possible flooding, the glue panel on such a glue can disappear.

Laying the cork on the glue with the solvent requires the use of means of protection to prevent harmful substances to the respiratory organs. Work should be carried out with an open window for air intake.

Laying floating floor

The floating gender method involves the absence of a dense connection between the floor covering and the construction of the building, which makes it possible to avoid exposure to the coverage of the building shrinkage. At the same time, the material of the floor covering does not come into contact with the side walls, the sound waves are not transmitted from them. In this way, the floor will be isolated from noise, which is formed when exposed to the slab overlap when walking, moving objects, etc.

How to lay the cork floor by floating gender? The process begins with a surface coating with a film that does not miss moisture. The film is placed by pieces of braziness, which are connected by scotch. To insulate the floor under floor covering, laying cork substrate is possible. The panels of the incomplete row are trimmed without affecting the groove. The panels have transverse rows from the extreme left corner, inserting the comb's compence of the next panel into the groove of the previous panel. Between the wall and the coating, 20-30 mm width are clearance. To do this, the clearance is placed wedge to retire. Excess film is cut. At the finish of the wall, cork plinth is attached at a distance of 1-2 mm from the flooring.

The floor inevitably falls in the field of our view, forming the image of the room as a whole. It should be comfortable and beautiful, because every day you have to come into contact with its surface. Basic requirements include insulating characteristics, environmental friendliness, wear resistance, representative appearance. The selection of the surface material should include both the specifics of the room, so, the level of humidity, the number of visits in the bathroom, hallway and children's vulnerable. Among the sets of options, of course, preference is worth paying a tree. It is always in fashion and comes up to any style and color. This material is capricious and invalid indoors where the level of humidity is increased, condensate, steam often appear. Thus, it is worth excluding the bathroom, a toilet, a kitchen. Wooden floor is both whole boards, MDF, and laminate, and combined coatings. There is another way to arrange the floor in the living rooms - to do the laying of cork sex with your own hands. This procedure will take the whole family, becoming a bright joint memoir. The material is fuel and pleasant to the touch, and its fixation and distribution do not require special skills.

The origin of the material, its types

Cork is a relatively new material. Only in the 17th century it began to apply it to clog wines, guided by the properties of a material that does not affect the taste of wine. Now the cork tree is used in construction and decoration. This is a layer of cork of cork oak, which is removed from the tree, starting with its 25th anniversary. It is during this period that the bark is easily moving away from the branches and does not harm him. Material then passes several stages of processing, which at the moment are quite effectively working with large volumes of traffic.

Cork floors are divided into types, the laying differs depending on this, because the video instructions differ from each other, taking into account the type of material used. The most expensive material is a solid cork veneer. This is a slice that can be different thickness. The form can be both solid - in the form of a board and flexible - in the form of rolls. The surface of the surface is yellow-brown, with a large natural pattern of dark saturated color. The material can be cut on the tiles, since a solid piece is difficult to decompose, and the surface under it is perfectly prepared. The bottom side can be covered with a film for better adhesion of glue with the surface.

Laying of cork floor from panels is similar to picking up puzzles. In this case, special technology is used for each plate. The base of the MDF is covered with a layer of pressed crumbs from the tube, and then glued a glass of veneer from the tube on the front side. This type of floor can use trimming and waste that are assembled in the manufacture of a solid cork canvase, so it is cheaper. In addition, those who are going to perform work on laying the cork gender independently, it will be easier to work with this material. A separate category is a laminate from the plug, which is already prepared for fasteners and can be laid after the preliminary calculation of the pattern.

There are also offers from construction stores, where knowledge of cork laying technology will help create a masterpiece. We are talking about cork tiles, which is made from the crumb. Under the influence of high temperature, it is pressed, resulting in a yellowish basic tone, darkened with small grains of a darker color. The properties of the material, such as elasticity, thermal insulation, environmental friendliness, are preserved in this case. The size of the tiles traditionally repeats the parameters of the ceramic plates - these are squares and rectangles with a face 30, 60 cm. There are smaller tiles, they rather resemble parts of the stained glass, thanks to a bizarre form and a small size. Only an experienced master will be able to gather qualitatively.

Work on laying

Any construction and repair work require concentration, short desire and strength. In order for everything and the result did not disappoint, you need to choose the correct materials in the store, calculate their necessary volume, find out what is better to start work and how to do with the room after its end. Work on laying the cork sex is not easy, as it requires accuracy, good eyelasier and patience, but a child will cope with it from a technological point of view.

The base is a rough floor. It should be smooth, clean and dry. If your base is made of concrete - clean it from dirt and dust, read the surface for cracks and chips. If any, they need to be embedded with putty, and if the floor is covered with irregularities, it is better to apply a layer of screed. Do not forget that the liquid layer must dry completely, and the week may be required. Wood floor can be additionally coated with plywood layer.

Next you need to buy glue, depending on the type of coating you chose. On the package, the parameters of this product are usually indicated, so it is worth navigating the instructions and advice of sellers. Do not take the usual water-based glue, it will not dry to the end and give the dampness of the plug, which will quickly flashes and starts to break down and climb.

In case of laying of cork sex, it's more about the panels of different sizes, and it is very important to position them correctly. We start not from the walls, but from the center of the room. It can be determined by stretching the rope from the corner to the prick and fixing their middle. It is from this point and a layout will go. It is important to observe the symmetry so that the lanes of the laid panels or tiles were parallel to the wall lines.

Cork laminate and solid panels

There are two ways to laying the floor from the tube - it is adhesive and dry. One-piece plug, laminate, MDF panels with a veneered coating can be laid, attacking them with each other with special grooves. Such gender is called "floating" or lock. On one side of the tile there is a narrow hole along the entire length, and on the other - the comb. One panel is placed under another and snaps. This method is pleasant, since there is no need to be with glue, rub it out and breathe it with pairs. For such a method, a specially prepared layer is needed on the draft floor for better isolation. It can be a plastic film bonded at the joints of a tape or furniture stapler, and maybe a layer of wood. The floor of the laminate or whole tube can be laid on the carpet, if it is clean and smooth.

Styling of cork floor starts from the wall. A second panel is applied to the first panel, a little at an angle, then it goes down, and the castle itself snaps. After laying the first row, you can go to the second, and so on. It is better if the tiles are placed in a checker order, for this you need to start the row from half a plan. Laying such a cork floor does not even require a training video, everything is clearly intuitive. He received its name and thanks to the gaps between the planks, which must be left (about 7 mm), and due to the absence of fastening at the wall - the plinth only hangs over the floor, without attaching it.

Tile - Master Weapon

Cork tile is a cheap coating, but it does not regulate the styling pattern, giving fantasy space. It is very important to work properly with glue. It is better to buy a dear sample so that work does not go to the pump. The first step is the tile distribution. To do this, we define the center of the room from which we begin to turn the tiles dry. First, we define the main points, laying the biggest tiles. By covering the room space, lay small tiles into crevices. As soon as you liked the result, starting sticking. It is made on the same principle - ranging from the center, from the largest tile. Remember that they must lay down to each other.

The glue is applied to the tile, and on the base, the impregnation time of the cork is indicated on the package. Tube laying technology involves the tile application with pressure so that the glue is better grabbed. Surplus You need to immediately wipe so that there are no stains left, for this you can use a sponge. After the large tiles are glued, you can fill the space between them with smaller pieces. If you do not have a suitable size, the tile can be cut into some smaller knife.

Laying the cork floor can take from one day to several, it all depends on the draft surface. If you poured the floor with a tie, it is better to wait for an excess day so that everything finally dried, if you drown the cork base, then the period may be smaller. Choosing the cork floor, take care of the plinth into the tone. Knowing how to lay a tile, you can assemble a whole composition using various shades of the cork or even undermining it, but such panels are more likely for the walls.

A number of warnings

The plug has a number of minuses. She swells and expands from moisture and swears from dryness and heat. These are the usual properties of wood, so they can not get rid of them. In addition, she absorbs odors. Such a floor is unacceptable in the country that you take a long time closed and unheated, in the bathroom, where there is constantly high humidity, in the kitchen, where food smells are soaked.

Despite all the advantages of natural material - softness, depreciation when walking, the feeling of natural texture, there is also the reverse side of the question - the plug is not an antiseptic. In this case, you can see under the dispensary tile or on another area, which is probably the microbes started. This is a raid, dubious liquid similar to glue.

Of course, if the surface is pasted on the right glue, the humidity will always be normal, and you will regularly clean up, the probability of familiar with the microbes face to face is minimal.

Care

The traffic jam will serve you for a long time with gentle handling. For regular cleaning, quite clean water or soap solution, but it is not worth using chemicals, there is a risk of damaging a natural surface. If you have a lot of furniture, which is also moving, it is better to fasten the tubes on the legs, this trick will avoid scratches. Use rugs from rubber or latex, for example, those that are sold to yoga classes are not worth it, as they leave the stains on the traffic jam, which then do not output.

Cork floor is warm for your feet, the ability to lie and sit on the floor for your children. It will not allow such injuries when falling as a concrete base, it will be absorbed with your walking, creating the effect of contact with nature. Choose high-quality floor, follow the instructions and your apartment will gain unsurpassed appearance and convenience.