Trends in furnishings and home decor are nothing new. The most popular trend is to design your home in an environmental and long-life materials. One of those choices for flooring is bamboo laminate flooring. Bamboo has become popular for everything in our life: from flooring to wallpaper and even clothing. Bamboo is an ideal resource to use in this things. It grows very quickly and matures in less than 5 years. Some varieties of bamboo can grow more than an inch in 24 hours. Read more »

You have all tools, acclimatized your boards and have a perfectly level sub floor, you are ready to start installing your laminate floor. The main 7 steps to doing this are: Read more »

In last time more and more peoples have chosen to install bamboo laminate flooring at homes. As well as it complementing the decor of any room they find that it is very durable but cheaper than normal hardwood flooring.

The other benefit of laminate flooring along with the cost is that it is easy to install. In most cases you will find that planks of this type of flooring simply click together using a tongue and groove. In result you can carry out this installation by yourself and the work can be completed in few hours depending on the size of your room. Read more »

Thickness is of a great importance when choosing laminate. The reasons for it are:

1. A manufacture carves 8-mm and 12- mm locks based on HDF (High Density Fiberboard – a high solidity board used for laminate manufacture). Such locks are more tear-proof than 6-mm and 7 –mm HDF locks. Therefore, laminate panels with thickness of 8 to 12 mm are more durable than their younger brothers of 6 to 7 mm.

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Eventually, each person, intended to turn his house into a cozy and comfortable place, where he spends the most part of his free time, comes to the idea of home improvement and repair. Considering what is set on stake, work out of interior design can become a complicated task. Floor covering plays even more important role than wall color or furniture style in the atmosphere of a house. Decisions about the interior are not easy to take, as you surely want your floor to fit your personal taste and way of life. Today laminate floor covering gains more and more popularity. Laminate is unpretentious, heavy pressure-proof and endurable. There are many rivals in the market of laminate. Most manufacturers and trade companies often hard-sell materials of a low quality to the customers.

Therefore, while choosing laminate, be sure that it is:

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Usually a manufacture plant furnishes a triple guarantee for its production (laminate):

1. Durable layer will not fray earlier, than it is determined by exploitation class;

2. Laminate decoration will not change under the influence of sunlight;

3. Laminate will not even be spoiled under chemical or thermal influence (within due limits, of course)

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Laminate classes 34 and 35 are made for high passable premises (public halls, salesrooms, dance floors etc.)

Laminate is one of the most widespread floor coverings today. Its application filed is determined according to a new specialized classification. In other words, home use – 21 class (low load), 22 class (average load), 23 class (high load). Classes for business premises (sales and public areas) are 31, 32, 33, 34, 35 (depending on a load rate).

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Laminate class 33 is used for high passable premises (offices, lobbies, exhibition halls).

As it is known, each customer wants to purchase laminate with a high abrasion resistance index. Often this index is marked separately by manufacturers. Laminate is also tested according to this criterion. Laminate panels abrasion resistance is defined by means of Taber test. This test calculates a number of turns, made by a grinding wheel, equipped with abrasion paper. Turns are scored up until the first signs of abrasion appear. This index is called IP (initial phase). In accordance with newly accepted norms EN 13329, depending on quantity of turns, laminate is marked with a certain class.

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Laminate┬а class 32 is used for average passable premises (small offices, sitting rooms, private halls).
Modern laminate is manufactured for different kinds of premises. When choosing laminate, decide about the place, where it will be installed. So, hall and kitchen floor is highly exposed to influence of abrasion and moisture. Therefore laminate of 23 class is more suitable there. Sitting room and playroom is usually furnished with floor of 22 class. But if you need high solidity floor, choose any class from 31 to 33. Read more »

Laminate of 31 class is meant for low passable rooms (bed rooms, playrooms etc.)
Its not an easy task to choose proper laminate. Be serious when deciding it. First, pay attention for utilization class of this very covering. There are special correspondence norms EN 685. Each floor covering is being tested for abrasive durability, cigarette resistance, impact and light resistance, formaldehyde presence etc. Having passed these tests, floor covering acquires a certain class. Then according to the lowest index, the whole laminate covering is marked with a class number. Note that even if floor covering is marked with a class after all these tests, some of its indexes can be even higher then those of this very class. Read more »