Tips for hardwood floors in the cold

Winter begins to show in one place. We want to enjoy your hardwood floor in, winter, summer, spring and autumn. I asked our team of technicians to install and Lumber Liquidators to give us some tips to help you search your floors their best, even if old winter at its worst.

* For areas of the country that has a lot of snow, above all, do not follow the snow-capped shoes or boots on the wooden floor. Use a stop outside and another in the carpet padHumidity. Take off your shoes outside the door and move them to a place in the wooden floors. In many places where there is a lot of snow, ice melt (or snow-salt) can reduce the shoes and boots, grain and create plug and scratch the wood floors, if you're not careful. Homes have a garage, it is best entered through the garage and leave shoes and boots through the garage door before entering.

Cold Weather

* Many people find it helpful to keep a cloth or mop at the entrance of his home,ready when the snow or clean water is needed.

* Some heating systems can reduce the humidity in your home. Low humidity can cause the contract flooring and cause gaps between the planks. Low humidity can also cupping and checking in the forest. It 's the key to using a hygrometer, the humidity at recommended levels memo installation of flooring to maintain. Hygrometer can be useful and are cheap ($ 7 - $ 30).

* Not onlywood floor, but can suffer from fine furniture and walls painted in a very low moisture content. The objective is recommended humidity of 35-55% target to maintain. Many air conditioners can be adapted to the professional development with April Air or similar device to add moisture back into dry homes.

* Wood stoves and fireplaces offer cozy, but very dry. You can simply return the 'necessary moisture in the house for a pot of water on the stove, somoisture back into dry air.

* Be sure to acclimatise! Many products in the warehouse, where temperatures are less than ideal stored. It 's the customer / installer to acclimatize properly to the materials in-house prior to installation. The shops are there to store and inventory of materials in a safe manner.

* If you plan to install in the winter, many of our moisture cure urethane adhesive to cure some of which require moisture for them. If the air is verydry because of the heating system, it will take longer to cure the adhesive. Most adhesive manufacturers, a / graphic temperature humidity in their statements that indicate how long it takes to cure the product.

* Nail guns should be allowed to warm up and should be oiled before use. Nagler, the cold glue or nails to hang and may cause damage to internal parts.

* Adhesives must be installed before the house. FreddaAdhesives are not very well distributed. Many companies need to be adhesive, the adhesive at temperatures between 50F and 100F.

Tips for hardwood floors in the cold