Hi there
We recently bought a load of reclaimed mahogany parquet 9inchs by 2.5 inches by 1inch. The guy we got them off said it was OK to lay them straight onto our floorboards using a flexible acrylic glue> Is this right, or do I need a 6 mm subfloor?
2nd question - sorry - I do want a border around the edge and have read several differing methods. Do I do this first or last?
Someone said to mark out where the border would be, adding on for the expansion strip then lay herribone pattern, right over the edge where the border would go. Once this was done, use one of those circular saws to cut a straight line and save messing about with cutting all the messy bits out one at a time.
Would this be a viable way of doing it? Many thanks
We recently bought a load of reclaimed mahogany parquet 9inchs by 2.5 inches by 1inch. The guy we got them off said it was OK to lay them straight onto our floorboards using a flexible acrylic glue> Is this right, or do I need a 6 mm subfloor?
2nd question - sorry - I do want a border around the edge and have read several differing methods. Do I do this first or last?
Someone said to mark out where the border would be, adding on for the expansion strip then lay herribone pattern, right over the edge where the border would go. Once this was done, use one of those circular saws to cut a straight line and save messing about with cutting all the messy bits out one at a time.
Would this be a viable way of doing it? Many thanks
As for the glue- well if your using wood flooring adhesive it should be flexible. I stick with urethane and rubber adhesives and try to steer clear of water based. Wood and water dont mix! The parquet, fit the middle first! The hardest bit about fitting a parquet floor is setting it out. If done correct you will end up with equal cuts every where so you can set saw up and do all your cuts. If you want to use circular saw to cut in i use a circular saw made by a company called festool. There saw runs on a track system which you cant go wrong with. I use it on all my boarder work. In fact when i used to do training for bruce hardwood / floorboards etc every one i showed this tool to ended up buying one the next day. brilliant tool. I wouldn't suggest using a cheap circular free hand tho. Hope this helps.
