Cork flooring is a modern covering,fixed on an adhesive or locking base. Cork is an ideal means for insulation and aesthetics of floors in residential premises, possessing hypoallergenic and antibacterial properties. Advantages of cork flooring:
Glue floor diagram.You can lay a glue or lock floor yourself, it is ready for installation and subsequent use. A variety of color shades will allow you to play up any apartment interior.
Locked cork floor
This name was given to the method of joining corksheets. When laying it together, the sheets are fastened using a locking system without using glue. There are 2 such systems for floors: UNICLIK and CORCLOK. On rigid sheets of the HDF type (high density MDF panel), cork is laid on top with a thickness of 3 mm, oak bark veneer or photo printing is glued to it. The bottom layer is also laid with cork with a thickness of 1-2 mm. The total thickness of the locking floor is about 8.5, 10.5 and 11 mm. All sheets are covered with ceramic or acrylic varnish during production, less often they are not covered at all, implying further coating during laying.
Cork flooring installation diagram.The locking system allows you to easily and independently lay the floorboards in the pattern and in the direction you want. If necessary, such a floor can be disassembled and laid in another room, replace a worn panel, or partially or completely restore it. And it may be necessary if the floor is in frequent contact with water. Therefore, such floors are not laid in bathrooms, on balconies, and in rooms that are rarely heated. Cork sheets of the locking floor are not connected to the base on which they are laid. Therefore, it is also called a floating floor. It must be laid in rooms of a regular rectangular shape, since when the temperature changes, the cork floor panels will either close or expand along the entire perimeter of the room. It is for this reason that it is worth leaving a gap of 1 cm from the base. Sliding wardrobes, walls and ledges, and the joint of other flooring act as such a base. The lock floor is laid only on a concrete screed, in rare cases on parquet or plywood board, chipboard, tiles. But it should always be taken into account that the base, the same screed, may require preliminary preparation, as well as the need for proper alignment with room thresholds, parquet board and tiles. Return to contents</a>
Adhesive Locked Floor
This requires an extremely level surface.base - concrete covering on which the cork will be laid, since all the unevenness will subsequently be imprinted on the floor. But glued floors are convenient because they are suitable for insulation in all rooms without exception, they are not afraid of moisture and temperature changes.
Cork flooring diagram.They can be cut and combined, selecting different patterns and colors, chamfers and sizes. Such coverings are recommended for use in small areas. When laying, it is necessary to use the appropriate glue and varnish, but the process itself does not involve complex joints with thresholds and all other types of coverings in the apartment. Therefore, in the case of laying an adhesive locking floor, the work of professionals is required. Accordingly, the cost of laying will be overstated, in addition to the cost of cork sheets, additional adhesive materials and the work of craftsmen will be taken into account. Cork has elastic properties that provide resistance to impacts and additional loads. In terms of rigidity, cork flooring ranks third after parquet and linoleum. Nevertheless, experts recommend putting plastic tips on the legs of some furniture, for example, on chairs. It is worth remembering that adhesive or locking cork flooring is laid on a base completely free of furniture.
