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With the arrival of summer, the outdoor areas of the house become the most exploited. For parquet lovers, the idea of being able to pave the veranda, the poolside, or make a walkway wood in your garden is a dream come true.
Clearly a wood flooring for external must possess certain characteristics ranging from the size of the strips to the structure of the grid installation. Thus we see in detail the characteristics that must have a wooden floor to be installed in outdoor environments: The solid wood planks must have a thickness of not less than 20 mm, a width of about 90 and 100 mm and a length of at least 500/600 mm;
How to Choose the Most Suitable Essence That Meets all These Features? For outdoor installation, the substances most appropriate are those belonging to the family of broad-leaved heartwood concentrated or conifers. Among the best-known species are the teak and the ' Ipé which are characterized by their strength and durability in addition to high impermeability. Always among the tropical species, typical for brown-green or yellow-reddish shades. To stay on cheaper and rustic wood, the most indicated are pine, Douglas fir and Acacia (the Douglas fir). Clearly, it is important to preserve its wood flooring from exterior mold or wood-eating insect attacks, and in addition to natural tannins and essential oils, you must perform specific artificial treatments. To choose the right essence you need to understand how you intend to use it if it's viable with shoes lining, then you can decide to use pine, but if you want a floor area also barefoot, the ideal essence is teak. The first distinction macro that we can do is that between solid wood parquet blocks and hardwood plywood. Let's see what the characteristics that distinguish these two types of wooden flooring are. The solid wood laminate flooring is characterized by being formed by a single layer of noble wood, with a constant profile and a normal thickness, and is defined based on the type of finish:
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