Trendy Engineered Character Oak Floorboards – Quick View

You will come across a consistently increasing demand for better quality solid and engineered wood floors, character oak flooring throughout the last several years, even in the middle of an economic downturn. The key reason why character as well as genuine looking oak flooring is currently trendy can be viewed as a step to the low-cost oak wood flooring of the earlier times and also affordable imported oak hardwood flooring. The situation of past years is that a number of these laminate oak flooring, solid and engineered oak floors lack character along with a genuine feel. Truly in a good number of high street retailers oak hardwood floors turned out to be very clean and smooth, having a small amount of character oak floor capabilities on show. Panels are usually normally short in size and breadth and once fixed solid or engineered oak floorboards without even correct character, which include knots, minimal shakes, pippy and burr markings they might seem exactly the same to a fake, laminate floorboards. The general objective of placing powerful oak hardwood floor to your property with lots of aspect is to get a feeling of natural warmth that could only be observed with natural products such as top quality hardwood oak. A solid oak, character oak floor will also integrate benefit to your property if the appropriate standard and quality oak floor is picked. A solid or engineered character oak floorboard of proper quality is actually being an investment that will not break the bank. In contrast to prime oak, hardwood floorboards that can be pretty expensive, solid character oak floorboards can be modest in rate even for high quality European character oak floorboards. 

Character oak floorboards varies between clean character oak and very rustic character oak, qualities ABC are often used to offer you a sense of the sort of character you can assume to get with your wood flooring purchase. Character grade ‘A’ oak floorboards are much less antique when compared with Character class ‘B’ oak floorboards and Character class ‘C’ oak floorboards are even more antique when compared with character grade ‘A’ and ‘B’. In some cases character oak floorboards levels may be tagging outside these kinds of ‘ABC’ grades and can be prescribed several labels such as Barn wood class, Rustic grade. In our estimation grade ‘C’ and ‘BC’ make the ideal look and feel for a natural looking oak floorboard design.

 

Fitting Ideas of Your Oak Floorboards

Fitting your hardwood flooring, whether it is a solid wood floor or an engineered oak hardwood floor depends on many factors. You can use specialist glues, secret nails, big old-fashioned nails or some hardwood floor can be kept as a floating floor depending on whether your boards come end-matched and have been correctly machined.

Firstly, for any hardwood floor, antique oak floor and most oak floorboards in general you have to consider the floor itself, the supporting timbers or the sub-floor. You will not be able to correct any foundations irregularities once your hardwood floor has been fitting, so it is vital that the base is solid and flat. All hardwood floors, antique oak floors, oak floorboards are a natural product and thus oak floorboard movement is possible even when fitted, if you have an unstable base that supports your hardwood floor, then you will have additional potential problems such as boards lifting, creaking, working themselves lose. If you have carefully revised your hardwood floor base and supporting timbers then you are ready to fit your hardwood floor, antique oak floor, and oak floorboards.

Let’s assume that your hardwood floor design suits a modern and clean finish and you would prefer the nails to be hidden. Then the method of fitting would be secret nailing or gluing. If you are fitting your hardwood floor onto joists then you will not be able to float your hardwood floor, not matter if it is solid oak, engineered oak, antique oak, new oak floorboards. Fitting directly onto joists is the most traditional of methods and we would advise you to nail the boards using old and traditional clasp nails. On the other hand, you can screw your hardwood floor to the joists and fill the screw holes with filler, even better use your hardwood flooring scraps to make bespoke oak pegs that can be used to hide the unsightly screw holes and screw heads. If however, you have fitted a sub-floor of plywood to your joists and you do not have a flat and strong base for your hardwood floor, only now are you ready to float your hardwood floor, glue your hardwood floor or secret nail your hardwood floor.

If you choose to float your hardwood floor, then you will need to secret nail the tongues and the grooved of each oak floorboard to the next. One the hardwood floor has been fitted and secret nailed together, you will be left with a few mm of free space surround the whole hardwood floor surface. This is important so that your floor has space to ‘breath’, if there is to be any oak floorboard movement over the coming years this extra free space acts as added stability.

If you choose to glue your hardwood floor, this is the most popular method and the fastest way to fit your oak floorboards. You cannot glue a reclaimed hardwood oak floor; you can only glue a new hardwood floor with relief grooves beneath. This is because reclaimed hardwood floors require additional fitting pressure and adjustments when fitting, this is their charm and authenticity, these so called ‘imperfections’ will make this type of floor unique unlike and new oak hardwood floors.