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Wooden flooring can be dismantled and fixed again, says Abhijit Dev Kumar
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Multiple choices: Customers at a hardware mart
Walking on wood can be quiet an experience. It could be the knocking sound of a cowboy walking in his boots from a western classic or that of a ballet dancer gracefully moving on the wooden floor. Whether you want the interiors to look trendy or give it an antique touch, the market is stocked with different kind of wood for every kind of look.
Laminates or laminate flooring is a regular choice with those who want to experiment with wood flooring. Being the cheapest of the lot, laminates consist of a High Density Particle Fibre (HDF) and come in four categories — AC3, AC4, AC5 and AC5++ — a grading on par with European standards.
Manufactured wood
Engineered wood, as the name suggests, is manufactured wood. Real wood is pasted on to a High Density plywood board to give it an authentic look and is one of the toughest flooring options that one can opt for.
A bit on the higher side, engineered wood is priced at Rs.700 per sq.ft. and comes in colours such as Jatoba Geneva, Oak Montana, Cherry Geneva, Ash London, Linnea Oak and Linnea walnut. The thickness of engineered wood is generally 7mm. Life of the engineered wood varies from 50 to 60 years.
If you are looking for that Chinese touch to your flooring, then bamboo would be a good option to consider.
Preventing moisture
Maintaining wood is quiet a task and one should note that water should be wiped off immediately from the surface.
The common practice is to lay a 30 micron polythene paper before laying the floor so that the moisture doesn’t reach the laminate, thus adding a few more years to the life of the flooring. Fixing charges of the laminate is Rs.12 per sq.ft.
Unlike other flooring options, wooden flooring is the only one where the flooring can be dismantled and fixed again.
It uses a ‘tongue-and-groove’ or ‘click-and-join’ method where two planks of wood are designed in such a way that they can be interlocked.
“For a 100 sq.ft. bedroom, it would take approximately one-and-a-half hours to remove and relay the flooring”, says a dealer.
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