APPLICATION AND USE
Laminate Parquet Applıcation Specification
In order to preserve the beauty and elegance of your parquet for many years and to prevent misapplication and mistakes, please follow the application rules and recommendations specified in this section. Wood is hygroscopic, i.e. a natural "living" material, so some changes in the colour, grain and texture of parquet are inevitable.
Natural differences depend on the characteristics of the wood species.
TGS does not guarantee against natural differences and colour differences between plates. Depending on the ambient humidity and temperature, the material diffuses or absorbs moisture. This is associated with a change in volume (swelling or shrinkage). Therefore, when installing a wooden floor, it is important that there is an "expansion gap" or "movement joint" between the floor and walls and other fixed objects.
When purchasing parquet, it is always recommended to leave a wastage allowance of at least 5 % of the total area. The wood laminated parquets you have purchased from TGS are produced at the highest quality standards. Each plate is meticulously inspected before it is approved. The application of laminated parquet should be carried out according to the following conditions. Application errors are the responsibility of the master and/or the buyer. Observation always makes it easy to avoid problems that may be encountered later. It is the installer's and/or buyer's responsibility to inspect the plates and all materials for proper color, style, surface and quality prior to installation. Before installation, make sure that the parquet is the correct material, remove the plates / materials that you are not satisfied with. Despite all our quality control procedures, faulty products may of course occur, faulty panels will be replaced by your supplier or by us. Complaints about panels laid with obvious surface defects are unacceptable.
Things to Consider Before Starting The Application
The area where laminated parquet will be applied should definitely not be a wet place. Since parquet is completely wood material, it is not a water and moisture resistant material. Rooms in new buildings should be ventilated for at least one month before parquet installation to reduce the amount of moisture and the heating system should be installed, tested and heated. Poured concrete, screed and other wet treatments that contribute moisture to the building (e.g. painting, plastering and priming) should be completed. Make sure that the ambient humidity in the area where the parquet will be applied is in the range of GANN 30-60 and the room temperature is min 18C.
If a floating system is to be applied in the application area, the screed humidity should not exceed GANN 30, if it is to be glued to the ground, it should not exceed GANN 25.
Unopened parquet packs are recommended to be kept in the room where they will be applied in the above-mentioned climatic conditions for 48 hours before installation.
Parquet packaging should be removed only immediately before installation. If the protective nylon in the packages is damaged, use a tape to prevent moisture from penetrating inside.
The direction of laying of parquet slabs should be decided before the installation begins. The direction will depend on the shape of the room and the location of the windows. We recommend laying it longitudinally. The floor should be cleaned in such a way that there is no plaster etc. on the floor and the parquet to be applied should be applied on the screed, which is leveled so that it does not flex. Stretching after parquet application is completely due to screed.
Things to Consider During Application
Final quality control is the responsibility of the buyer and installer. Always make it a habit to check the product during installation. Malfunctions are always easier to troubleshoot if diagnosed early. Once the product is applied, it is deemed to have been accepted by the buyer/installer. Products with obvious malfunctions, which were detected before installation, should not be used. Make sure that the check and application are always done under good light.
1. Check the humidity of the screed and do not apply if it is damp.
2. In all applications, except for the floor adhesive system, 20-30 micron thick nylon should be laid on the floor as a moisture barrier.
Nylon joints shall be overlapped at least 30 cm. Application should not be made without nylon (moisture barrier). If adhesive application is to be made on the ground, primer should be used.
3. Mattress, cork or kapron should be laid on nylon without any gaps and without overlapping.
4. In laminated parquet application, the staggering allowance between the parquet should not be less than 30 cm.
5. In laminated flooring application, the parquet expansion gap should be 12-14 mm everywhere. Where the margins are uneven, parquet should be trimmed by cutting.
6. The bottom of the heating pipe should be circular in shape, not rectangular.
7. Laminated parquet glue should be applied to the sides and heads of the parquet in a way not to leave the material in the lamp mortise.
8. During parquet application, in floating system application, areas longer than 8 m should be divided and expansion gap should be left and dilatation profile should be placed.
9. If the parquet application is made with a floating system, the material should never be fixed to the ground and should not be reset to any point. When making parquet skirting on it, the skirting board should not be nailed to the parquet and its movement should not be prevented.
10. After the parquet application is completed, parquet wastes, mattress pieces, glue and nylon wastes etc. belonging to us on the construction site should be cleaned so that no parquet wastes, mattress pieces, glue and nylon wastes etc. are left and disposed of in the garbage collection area indicated by the construction site.
11. The impacts that will occur on the material after the parquet application is definitely not related to the parquet. Every material can be damaged by impact.
Things to Consider After Application
If further work is to be carried out at the place of application, the floor must be protected with a moisture-permeable material (eg. Paper, Cardboard). Check that this will not change the colour of the floor. Do not use any adhesive tape on the parquet while doing this.
When the application is carried out in a new building, provide adequate ventilation so that the building moisture does not damage the floor. If the relative humidity is higher than 60%, permanent deformation may occur.
Wood is a material that gradually comes to its natural colour. It is recommended not to lay carpets for several months so that the product color change is balanced. However, if it is necessary to be laid, a colour difference will occur in the part under the carpet, the carpet should be removed for a certain period of time when the colour difference is desired to be balanced.
