Thursday, December 11, 2008

About Sound proofing wooden flooring

You will definitely have come across wooden flooring. It is not a new thing. However it has always been thought and experienced that wooden flooring makes more noise. As far as central heating is concerned the electricity is really wasted because it takes lots of time to heat up. As far as the modern wooden flooring is concerned they new technology has really come through these drawbacks.

The flooring is not equipped with the tongue and grooved from all the four sides. Hence they are easily fitted and no hole is left between the two. There is also no space left between top floor and under floor. Hence it easily get heated too because the cold cannot creep inside from below.

I would like to give some more idea about wooden flooring. Wooden flooring is a type of flooring made from the timbers of hard wood, or of spruce or hard pine. There are two basic manufactured types of hardwood. Woods flooring comes unfinished and once installed is sanded, and then finished on site. The products that are prefinished are polyurethane finish that has added aluminum oxide, however some company do use titanium oxide or some other oxide. These oxides are used on different types of flooring and increase the wear that wooden flooring can handle.

There are three types of hardwood floors which are engineered. They are as follows:
1.Rotary-peel
2.Sliced-peel
3.Dry solid-swan.

The floors are first finished the refinished and then at last sanded before they are ready. This is a long process but the quality is just awesome. You will really love it.
Wooden floor has more natural kind of insulation. The wooden layer is floated over the other floor. Hence a space is left between the two layers since a gap is created between the two. This is where the underlay comes into play. This is implemented between the two layers and this minimizes the sound to maximum limit.

There are many advantages of wooden floor too. They are as follows:

1.The quality of hard wood floor is very high.
2.You will experience better acoustic far as hardwood floors are concerned.
3.As far as indoor air quality is concerned you will easily find out that the indoor air quality is very good. You will enjoy the quality and you will get ill only seldom.
4.The ease with which you can clean wooden floors is really a very good point to note. Which ever method you are using to clean the floor, as far as the wooden floor is concerned you will hardly find any difficulty.
5.You will get so many designs it would be very tough for you to decide that which design is best for your house.

I must say that keeping all the above points in mind you should go for wooden floor for your house.

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