Solid wood flooring material
Maple: moderate weight, fine structure and smooth section. Its advantages are easy processing and good coating and gluing properties. The disadvantage is that it warps when it is dry.
Black walnut: a kind of precious wood, with beautiful texture, purple in black, elegant and noble. Due to the heavy color tone, it is required that the coating must have high transparency after film formation. Deep wood grain requires clear primer, good filling and strong sealing. When the panel is dyed or the plywood fades, it will fade easily after a long time.
Rosewood: hard and heavy, with clear texture, but light color, medium structure and smooth section. Its advantages are corrosion resistance and good coating and bonding performance. The disadvantage is that it is not easy to do.
Birch: slightly hard material, fine structure and high strength. Its advantages are machinability and good coating and gluing properties.
Beech: hard material, flat texture, thin structure, wear resistance and luster. The advantages are that it is not easy to deform when drying, and the processing and coating are good.
Quliu: The material is slightly hard, the pattern is beautiful and the structure is thick. Its advantages are easy processing, high toughness and good coating adhesion.
Pine: Korean pine. Light and soft material, moderate strength, good dryness, water resistance and corrosion resistance. Its advantages are good processing, coating and coloring. White pine. The material is light, soft, elastic, meticulous and uniform in structure, good in drying, water-resistant and corrosion-resistant. Its advantages are good processing, coating and coloring. Compared with Korean pine, white pine has higher strength.
Elm: beautiful material pattern and thick structure. Its advantages are good processability and coating adhesion. The disadvantage is poor dryness and easy to crack and warp.
Basswood: the material is slightly soft, the structure is slightly thin, and it has silky luster. Its advantages are not easy to crack, good processability and good adhesion between coating and coloring.
Oak: hard material, thick structure and high strength. Its advantages are good coloring and coating performance and easy drying. Disadvantages are difficult processing, poor adhesion and easy cracking.
Cinnamomum camphora: the material is moderate in weight, thin in structure and fragrant in smell. The advantages are that it is not easy to deform when drying, and the processing and coating are good.
Willow: The material is moderate and the structure is slightly thick. Its advantages are easy processing and good adhesion and finishing performance. The disadvantage is that there will be slight cracking and warping when drying.
Advantages and disadvantages of solid wood flooring
Advantages of solid wood flooring:
One: Durable
Solid wood flooring is made of a whole piece of wood. At present, the thickness of solid wood flooring on the market is 18mm, which ensures the wear resistance. There are many species of solid wood flooring, which are hard and dense, resistant to corrosion and insects, and can be used for many years in normal use.
Two: environmental protection
Solid wood flooring is a real green environmental protection material, which is taken from natural wood and does not contain formaldehyde, so it has no harm or side effects on human body, which is why many families value wood flooring. Natural wood itself is relatively environmentally friendly and does not contain formaldehyde. However, some small manufacturers or unscrupulous merchants use paint whose quality is not up to standard when making paint boards, which will cause formaldehyde in wood floors to exceed the standard and bring harm to people's health. Therefore, the choice of solid wood flooring should ensure brand products and reputable manufacturers.
Three: good feet
The paved solid wood floor has good elasticity, and people walking on it are very soft and comfortable in terms of temperature, touch and feet.
Four: temperature adjustment
Because of the low thermal conductivity of wood, it has a good temperature regulation effect as a floor material, especially in cold winter, people who are active indoors will not freeze their feet. In summer, the solid wood floor won't give off heat, and the logs can make people feel close to nature and cool and comfortable.
Five: beautiful and natural
Wood is natural, and its circular texture often gives people a feeling of returning to nature, which is beyond the reach of artificial floors anyway.
Six: Natural fragrance
Some precious wood gives off natural wood fragrance, which makes people feel back to nature and makes people feel relaxed and happy after fatigue. Some wood tastes good and is beneficial to human health.
Seven: recycling
Solid wood flooring is a kind of wood that can be recycled many times. After the solid wood floor is used, it can be refurbished by repainting.
Disadvantages of solid wood flooring
One: Difficult to maintain
Solid wood flooring has higher requirements for pavement. Once the paving is not good, it will cause a series of problems, such as noise. If the indoor environment is too wet or too dry, the solid wood floor is prone to arching, warping or deformation. Wax and oil frequently after paving, otherwise the luster of the floor surface will soon disappear.
Two: poor stability
The stability of the solid wood floor is relatively poor, so in order to strengthen the stability of the solid wood floor in the use process, the keel must be played when installing, and other floors can be installed directly without keel.
Three: the price is high
Solid wood flooring has been kept at a high price, and the price is above 200 yuan/square meter. Therefore, it is necessary to make a good budget for the wooden floor when decorating the family, and families with tight economic conditions and budgets have to consider it.
Four: easy to burn
As we all know, wooden things are easy to burn, and there is a hidden danger of burning in dry air and high temperature. If it is heated and baked for a long time, it may burn, which is not good for home safety.
How to distinguish the advantages and disadvantages of solid wood flooring
1, tree species and origin differences
First of all, we should pay attention to the problem of counterfeit tree names, that is, the tree names indicated in the goods do not match the identification results, and most of them are shoddy, such as using birch as maple (maple) and Manglietia as teak. , leading to misleading consumers (see the list of common tree species names and misleading market names in the previous part), and the true and false prices are naturally not comparable. In addition, because wood is a natural product, the quality and price of the same kind of wood produced in different places are also different, such as teak, which is produced in Indonesia and Africa, but the quality produced in Myanmar is the best and the price is higher; Compared with Impatiens cajan produced in Brazil, Impatiens produced in Paraguay have stronger fragrance and brighter colors. These differences will eventually be reflected in the price, so pay attention to screening when buying, and don't be confused by the low price.
2, the difference of processing technology
Flooring needs to go through dozens of processes in the process of processing. Some processes can be seen directly in the product, while others can't, but it is very helpful to improve the quality. These all need a certain price, such as the reasonable health care of the blank needs to occupy a lot of money, and the six-sided sealing process will also increase the cost, especially for some products produced by new technologies and imported equipment. For example, the cost of painting with imported paint or paraffin oil is relatively higher, which will eventually lead to different costs.
3. Differences in natural defects
Because solid wood flooring is a natural product, there must be natural defects. In general, the fewer natural defects, the higher the grade and the higher the price. But in fact, with the actual production level of China's wood flooring industry at present, there are very few flooring enterprises that can really produce the quality standards of superior products, and most of them are qualified products or first-class products. Therefore, we should pay attention to the problem of pseudo-scale. Some manufacturers often name their products as excellent products or AAA, but they can't reach them at all.
4. Specification differences
Unusual floors are usually relatively low in price, but in fact they are mostly processed products, such as replacing a big board with a small board or scraps. When buying a floor with unusual specifications, the biggest fear is that there are problems in a small area of the floor, and it is difficult to match the floor with the same specifications in the market. If you want to repair it completely, you must remove or replace all the materials.
5. The difference between true color, color modification and coloring
At present, the painted solid wood flooring sold on the market is rarely natural in the strict sense. General manufacturers will slightly modify the color from the perspective of reducing chromatic aberration and icing on the cake to make the wood grain clearer and more thorough, which is not a bad thing from the consumer's point of view. Those floors with darker colors are much cheaper than those with the same material, and are usually made of relatively cheap inferior materials, such as two-color sapwood and deadwood, by re-coloring.
6. Selling the mystery of the floor.
Some "special price" and "low price" floor prices look really attractive, but in fact they are some defective or shoddy products. Once there is a problem, when the consumer proposes to return the goods, the other party will always refuse on the grounds that the special goods will not be returned.
7, the mystery of low-cost installation
Many flooring companies provide laying services at the same time, which is a good thing to reduce after-sales disputes. However, if some of them are free, you should be careful. On the surface, consumers have benefited, but in fact, it is very likely that the bad floor was sawed off by laying, which increased the loss of the floor in vain.
How long is the service life of solid wood flooring?
The service life of solid wood flooring is very different from that of other wood flooring materials. Wood floors such as multi-layer solid wood composite floor and laminated floor are mainly plywood and veneer, so their service life is the shortest, about 10- 15 years.
The service life of solid wood flooring is related to the material of solid wood flooring itself. In solid wood flooring, the raw materials of many tree species are unstable, such as balao, Mulberry, Ivory Wood, Cinnamomum camphora, Oil Nutmeg, etc., which are prone to problems and have shorter service life than teak, sandalwood, oak and Fraxinus mandshurica.
The service life of solid wood flooring has a great relationship with its usual maintenance. If you pay attention to maintenance and polish and paint regularly, the service life of solid wood floors is relatively long, even reaching decades.
The service life of the solid wood floor is related to the material of the wood floor and its usual maintenance, so if you want the solid wood floor at home to have a long service life, you should pay attention to maintenance at ordinary times.