Coatings and decorative treatments
Posted: Sun Feb 09, 2025 3:36 am
Like other types of parquet, modern modular parquet is covered with oil, usually with the addition of wax, or a special parquet varnish. A distinction is made between ready-made modular parquet with a factory finish coating and modular parquet without a coating. In the second case, varnish or oil is applied after installation.
A chamfer can be cut along the perimeter of the macedonia mobile database or each element. Modular parquet with a chamfer looks more textured, in addition, the chamfer masks micro-gaps that occur with fluctuations in temperature and humidity.
Modular parquet can be subjected to all basic types of processing, although complex relief processing (planing, sawing, aging) is used much less frequently than in the processing of solid and parquet boards.
Toning. As a rule, the color is added to one or more layers of primer, preceding the application of the finishing layer. Toning can be translucent or opaque (rare). In the latter case, colored enamels are used.
Brushing. The most common way to create a relief surface. Most temperate wood species have annual rings, with the dark part of the ring being softer and the light part being harder. Using special brushes (made of metal or synthetic materials), parquet manufacturers select soft fibers from the surface of the wood, creating a relief that follows the pattern of the annual rings.
Planing. The surface is covered with uneven waves, left as if from careless work with a plane or jointer. In modular parquet it looks less impressive than on wide lamellas of solid and parquet boards.
Aging or hand finishing. Giving the floor covering a worn effect by methods other than those listed above, in particular by applying notches and artificial damage to the surface and bevels of the floor covering.
History of modular parquet
The predecessor of modular parquet was rectangular wooden planks laid in a herringbone pattern (opus spicatum). This or very similar parquet is still used as a floor covering; in Russia it is known as block parquet. Unlike boards laid in rows, herringbone parquet forms a certain geometric pattern (actually, opus spicatum), which makes it similar to modular parquet. Another difference from floorboards is the division of the floor into a rough, or load-bearing, and a finished floor. Block parquet is always laid over a finished floor, be it a concrete base, plywood or edged board on joists.
A chamfer can be cut along the perimeter of the macedonia mobile database or each element. Modular parquet with a chamfer looks more textured, in addition, the chamfer masks micro-gaps that occur with fluctuations in temperature and humidity.
Modular parquet can be subjected to all basic types of processing, although complex relief processing (planing, sawing, aging) is used much less frequently than in the processing of solid and parquet boards.
Toning. As a rule, the color is added to one or more layers of primer, preceding the application of the finishing layer. Toning can be translucent or opaque (rare). In the latter case, colored enamels are used.
Brushing. The most common way to create a relief surface. Most temperate wood species have annual rings, with the dark part of the ring being softer and the light part being harder. Using special brushes (made of metal or synthetic materials), parquet manufacturers select soft fibers from the surface of the wood, creating a relief that follows the pattern of the annual rings.
Planing. The surface is covered with uneven waves, left as if from careless work with a plane or jointer. In modular parquet it looks less impressive than on wide lamellas of solid and parquet boards.
Aging or hand finishing. Giving the floor covering a worn effect by methods other than those listed above, in particular by applying notches and artificial damage to the surface and bevels of the floor covering.
History of modular parquet
The predecessor of modular parquet was rectangular wooden planks laid in a herringbone pattern (opus spicatum). This or very similar parquet is still used as a floor covering; in Russia it is known as block parquet. Unlike boards laid in rows, herringbone parquet forms a certain geometric pattern (actually, opus spicatum), which makes it similar to modular parquet. Another difference from floorboards is the division of the floor into a rough, or load-bearing, and a finished floor. Block parquet is always laid over a finished floor, be it a concrete base, plywood or edged board on joists.