Hard wood floors and wood flooring

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Hard wood floors and wood flooring

About the hard wood floors can be written stories with princes and princesses because the history of hard wood floors and wood floorings, starts in France, in palaces with mirrors, wood and marble.

The word “parquet” is derived from the French language and called the floor made of planks. These were the first tiles on the wood floorings and they are the ancestor of laminated flooring from nowadays.

The wood flooring  and the beautiful hard wood floors are planks of varying widths and lengths, combined with art (hard wood floors can be true works of art by combining of several species of wood with different tones and fibres), and with a lot of technique, on a smooth and rigid plan. It can be said that although it is expensive and difficult to maintain, few things are more beautiful in a house than hard wood floors.

The essential difference between the wood flooring and the hard wood floor is the size of wood boards. In the case of hard wood floors, they are most often parallel to the walls, of different lengths and widths ranging from 10 to 30 cm. The comfort, durability, sensation of heat, the natural colours and sometimes the natural flavours that these hard wood floors have, make them a touch of luxury for house.

In their classical form all variations of hard wood floors, seem destined mainly for vacation houses, because at the first impression they have no modern and practical air of the laminated flooring, but in fact, some essences of wood which wood boards for the hard wood floors are made of, can exceed by far the most expensive type of wood flooring, and give an extremely opulent and charming air to rooms.

The first advantage of hard wood floors is the wood colour which varies from essence to essence. The irregularities, peculiarities or imperfections of the wood boards add beauty and personality to the room and the space where the hard wood floors are used. The daylight points out the hard wood floors as it is not possible for laminated flooring.

The most important detail for any type of hard wood floors is their colour that comes from the type of the wood that was used. The colour is given by the tannins and natural resins, and not by synthetic colours, as in the case of laminated floorings. Moreover, the colour of the same type of wood may vary depending on the conditions in which the tree has grown. The colour to any form of hard wood floors can vary from white – yellow (wood, poplar, fir, linden) to the grey, for wood of hornbeam, to reddish tones for oak and ash or cafe for walnut.

Hardness of the hard wood floors varies from essence to essence, but a proper assembling increases the resistance even for the softer essences as fir hard wood floors and offers to the floors solidity for tens of years.

More than the wood flooring, for all types of hard wood floors it is essential the correctly assembling, preventing seepage, assuring a good insulation against moisture, scraping, varnishing and other specific treatments that maintain the natural beauty of the wood.

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