Laminate flooring: laminate wood floors, plastic laminate. Installing laminate flooring.

Laminate: laminate floor, laminate panels. The technology of laminate

Today the laminated floors can be bought both in specialized stores and in any market of building materials. This floor material becomes more and more popular due to a minimum of the problems relating to its repair and maintenance. You can not be afraid that it will be damaged by children being rolled on rollers; it is possible to walk barefoot on it, because the covering is warm and absolutely harmless unlike cold synthetic linoleum.

What does an up-to-date laminated panel represent? It is a plate from the strong fiberboard 80-95 % consisting from a pressed wood and coated with a layer of strong wear resistant plastic material. Under it there is a film with drawing, plus defensive and stabilizing layers. Basically there is only one stabilizing layer, but in more expensive collections can be two to make the panel spreading from above (under drawing) and from below equal.

The laminate has been developed and started to be produced by firm «Perstorp Flooring» (Sweden) in the beginning of 80th years. Now the laminate is also produced by firms "Aicher" (Germany), «Alsapan» (France), «Uniclic Decor» (Belgium), Pergo (Sweden), EGGER, Kronospan, Tarkett and others.

By the selecting of the laminated floor it is necessary to pay attention to a base of the panel and its density. In the accompanying documentation it is often possible to meet abbreviation HDF. According to the structure it is analogue of a domestic fiberboard. Identification HDF (High Density Fibreboard) means that the bearing base of the panel is produced of a plate of high density (more than 800 kg/m3). The majority of up-to-date laminated floors are produced from HDF because the base density is very essential factor directly influencing technical data of a covering. The higher the density is, the higher the mechanical strength of plate against breaking and shock resistance, and the stability to pressure and the long-term loadings are. And the most important thing is that the resistance of a floor to moisture impact is also improved.

Other laminate manufacturing methods is DPL (Direct Pressure Laminate) and means that all layers of which a future laminate panel will consist get under a press and are stuck together simultaneously. As a result initial materials change their physic-chemical properties being joined in a single whole - the ready panel. Application of DPL technology has essentially reduced the price of production so has allowed to produced the laminated coverings of high quality in large quantities that are available to users with any level of incomes.

The parquet from DPL is offered by the majority of producers and these products are of an optimum average price.