How To Choose Solid Wood Floor When Decorating?

Before answering this question, we first need to understand the types of wood floors. Because we buy wood floors, we generally choose different types of wood floors, and different types of wood floors have different characteristics. So before we choose, we must figure out the type of wood floor. Like our common wood floors, it generally includes the following five.

1. Solid wood floor. Solid wood flooring can be said to be a high-end product among all wood floors, and the price is almost the highest. A solid wood floor is generally a kind of floor decoration material made of natural wood after cutting, drying, and finally processing. Therefore, the solid wood floor has a very good texture of natural wood, and it has the characteristics of warm in winter and cools in summer. The foot feels very comfortable, and it is very safe to use indoors. Like our guest dining room, study room, and bedroom, it is very suitable for laying solid wood floors.

2, solid wood composite floor. Solid wood flooring is the most mainstream type of wood flooring on the market. Because its quality is top-notch, but the price/performance ratio is indeed the highest. Like our common solid wood composite floor, it is made of interlaced lamination of different tree species, which determines that the solid wood composite floor has better crack resistance, and the dry shrinkage and swell rate is relatively small. , dimensional stability is very high. It also has the natural wood grain of solid wood floors and a comfortable foot feel.

3. Laminate floor. Laminate flooring is the cheapest and least effective of the above three types of flooring. Therefore, laminate flooring generally does not choose a lot during decoration. Only in some simple decorations, laminate flooring will be selected. Like our common laminate floors, it is composed of wear-resistant layers, decorative base layers and surface layers. The wear resistance of laminate flooring is very high, but its foot feel is relatively poor.

4, Cork floor. In fact, the cork floor is the most high-end of all floors, and cork floor is generally called the consumption of the pyramid tip of the floor. Like our common cork floors, the main material is oak bark. Therefore, the wooden floor is more environmentally friendly than the wood floor, and the heat insulation and moisture resistance effect is better, and the foot comfort is the highest. The most important point is that it can also achieve a soft, quiet and comfortable effect, which has a good protective effect on the accidental fall of the elderly and children.

5. Bamboo wood composite floor. Bamboo wood laminate flooring is made of bamboo and wood composite. Like the common bamboo and wood composite floor, the bottom plate and panel are basically wood, mostly fir and camphor wood, which is a new type of composite floor. However, there are certain requirements for the environment that bamboo and wood floors adapt to, and its decoration style is limited. So be careful when choosing.

What are the purchasing skills of solid wood flooring?

The above is a brief introduction to some of the more common wood floors on the market. In fact, the purchasing skills for each type of wooden floor are different. Therefore, in the following home miscellaneous forums, I will give you a detailed answer to the purchasing skills of solid wood flooring. Because the price of solid wood floors is relatively high, and the impact on the environment is relatively large. Therefore, when we buy solid wood floors, we can choose from the following four aspects, so that we can basically choose solid wood floors with qualified quality.

1. We first check the internal defects of the substrate. For example, it is more common to see whether there is a deformation defect of the core material inside the floor. In addition, we need to check whether the paint film finish of the floor is qualified. For example, it is most common to check whether there are air bubbles, whether there is any leakage of paint, etc., that is, whether the color of the floor is uniform.

2. To learn to identify the wood type of the plank of the wooden floor. When buying wooden floors, be sure to ask the manufacturer what kind of wood the wooden floors we buy are made of. One of the most common cases here is to use low-grade wood to pass off high-grade wood. So when we buy, we must learn to distinguish, for example, we can ask the manufacturer for the test report of the product.

3. Look at the size and accuracy of the board. Because our wooden floors are assembled piece by piece, we can unpack the solid wood floors, and then take out about a dozen pieces and then assemble them. The key observation here is the occlusion of the tongue and groove, the gap between the assemblies, and the height difference between the two adjacent plates. Qualified wooden floors should be tightly sealed, and there is no obvious difference in height to the touch.

4. Check the moisture content of the solid wood floor. This is very important. As our country stipulates, the moisture content of wood floors is generally 8%~13%. When we buy wooden floors, we can ask the dealers of wooden floors to use a moisture content meter to measure. That is, to give us data on moisture content. If there is no moisture content technical indicator, it is not recommended to buy it at this time. So when we buy wooden floors, we must check the moisture content. The difference between the moisture content of the wooden floor should be controlled within 2%, otherwise it will be judged as unqualified.