{"id":4075,"date":"2017-09-18T16:59:00","date_gmt":"2017-09-18T14:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.listonegiordano.com\/guida\/quale-parquet\/posa-flottante-o-incollata\/"},"modified":"2022-03-30T12:30:56","modified_gmt":"2022-03-30T10:30:56","slug":"floating-or-glued","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.listonegiordano.com\/guida\/en\/what-type-of-parquet\/floating-or-glued\/","title":{"rendered":"Floating or glued?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Another distinction to be considered when choosing wood flooring is what kind of technique to use for installing the floor. The two main types used today are floating and glued. They differ in origin and are associated with two different ways of life. But more than that, how you want to lay your floor will affect the type of product and have a significant impact on the final result. Let\u2019s take a look at the differences.<\/p>\n

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Floating floors came about to offer a flexible floor that is easy to remove.The floor planks are simply placed over an underlayment, on top of an elastic mattress that is just a few millimetres thick. The planks are either snapped together or bonded along the edges to create a sort of floating wooden carpet. The underlayment, however, not being attached to the parquet, does not contribute to the overall stability. It also affects acoustic perception: the solidity of the footfall is penalised. Floating floors are the ideal solution if you are looking for easy installation and, later on, easy removal. Or if gluing is not an option. These factors have made floating parquet the most popular type of flooring for DIYers. Flooring made with this type of support is often less resistant to humidity and may warp more easily. The content of the adhesives, present in greater quantities compared with other types of wood, make it important to carefully check the formaldehyde and other volatile organic compounds it releases.<\/span><\/p>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t
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The most efficient way to lay a parquet floor is to glue it. This way the planks are one with the base support onto which they are attached. This solution is urthermore highly efficient from a technical point of view in that it also implies the active participation of the support in terms of the dimensional stability of the wood, how it shrinks and swells. This laying technique provides better performance in terms of warp prevention and gives footsteps a deeper sound. Without the risk of hollow sounds, or a sinking of the planks if the underlayment is not perfectly flat. It is also the method recommended if you have under-floor heating. <\/span><\/p>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t
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Nailing wooden planks to a base to lay a floor dates back far in time, but it is now obsolete. Once upon a time the planks were fitted together and then nailed into place onto a base, or onto a grid structure fixed into the especially prepared underlying base. The many regulations and guidelines to be followed in modern-day construction (thicknesses available when restoring old buildings) and domestic requirements (comfort and energy waste in the case of radiant heating) means that this method is applicable in only a few special cases.<\/p>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t
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Floating or glued? Another distinction to be considered when choosing wood flooring is what kind of technique to use for installing the floor. The two main types used today are floating and glued. They differ in origin and are associated with two different ways of life. But more than that, how you want to lay […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":4012,"menu_order":2,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"template-parts\/chapter.php","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-4075","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"wps_subtitle":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.listonegiordano.com\/guida\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4075","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.listonegiordano.com\/guida\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.listonegiordano.com\/guida\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.listonegiordano.com\/guida\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.listonegiordano.com\/guida\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4075"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.listonegiordano.com\/guida\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4075\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9408,"href":"https:\/\/www.listonegiordano.com\/guida\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4075\/revisions\/9408"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.listonegiordano.com\/guida\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4012"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.listonegiordano.com\/guida\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4075"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}