Wood Flooring Installation
A successful wood floor installation begins with a full
survey, moisture content of the sub floor and relative humidity
checks of the air need to be taken before any installation.
Attention to detail is paramount, the initial setting out of your wooden floor and how it flows into adjacent rooms is key to a professional installation. |
Taking a moisture reading of the screed sub floor with a Protimeter
MMS.
In normal conditions you should allow one month drying time for every 25mm of new concrete sub floor. |
There are 4 proven fixing methods of fitting a Wooden Floor
Secret Nailing
Wooden flooring can be secret nailed using a Potanailer. If you have existing floorboards, Chipboard or plywood, nailing provides a tried and tested method for wooden flooring installation. |
Directly Bonding
You can directly bond Engineered Flooring, Parquet Flooring and Solid Wood Flooring to Concrete Screed, Plywood and Chipboard sub floors. Modern Flooring adhesives set with a rubber like consistency allowing wooden floors to move with climate changes, this is the secret of their success. |
Floating Floors
We only recommend floating Engineered floors. The individual planks are glued together using PVA and laid directly on an underlay. The engineered floor “floats” over the underlay and is not fixed to the sub floor in any way. |
Acoubond System
Fixing the Floor with the Acoubond System combines the advantages of directly bonded and floated floor laying. It considerably improves the floors impact noise deadening capacity and also reduces vibration. Engineered Flooring and Solid Wood flooring can both be installed using this system on Concrete Screed or Plywood. |
Attention to Detail at doorways
Existing Doorway
The attention to detail at the doorway is often overlooked on installation of a wooden floor. Removing Skirting Boards, cutting under door linings and Architraves accurately gives the impression that the wooden floor has always been there, rather than a poor addition. Architectural Joinery are passionate about detail. |
Remove Skirting Board.
Select a piece of flooring you are about to install and gently rest the saw on top. Cut way the door lining and Architrave |
Skirting Board, Door Lining and Architrave cut out. |
New Solid Oak Ramp Fitted |
The remaining Solid Oak Flooring is installed leaving an expansion gap around the perimeter, which will be covered with the new Skirting Board. |
New Skirting Board Fitted |
Detail of Solid Oak Ramp fitted to carpet.
Architectural joinery manufactures a full range Solid Oak Mouldings to suit every application to give you a professional Wooden Floor installation. |
Mat Wells
We can install mat wells in any size at your entrance, we have framed this one in a Solid Oak border perfectly mitred at the corners. |
This is the attention to detail you come to expect from an Architectural Joinery installation.