With the warming of the second-hand housing market, most of the 80-year-olds who bought second-hand houses took into consideration the problems of re-paving floors, were expensive, time-consuming and labor-intensive, and chose to refurbish the floor. As the floor renovation market is still in the development stage, this group of 80 will choose to look for a refurbishment company on the Internet. They said: Generally, we will first find a few good reputation companies on the Internet to compare, and then go to the physical store to discuss in detail. Finding a refurbishment company online is much more convenient, not only to understand its details, but also to save a lot of time and effort. Floor refurbishment companies have also gradually responded to market demand. However, consumers know little about floor renovation knowledge, leaving many businesses open-minded. In order to win more profits, some businesses advise consumers to completely refurbish. In fact, some floors need only be partially refurbished. In addition, some refurbishment companies use refurbishment to use German, French and other imported brand maintenance coatings for marketing. According to industry sources, not all solid wood floors can be renovated, and the floor renovation is reasonable about 70 yuan/square meter. Consumers who are overpriced or who are too low should be cautious.
However, according to experts, only solid wood flooring, solid wood flooring and bamboo flooring with a surface thickness of 4 mm can be refurbished. In addition, partial refurbishment can also cause new and old differences between floors, so consumers cannot blindly refurbish the floor.
According to Gao Zhihua, chairman of the floor committee of China Timber Distribution Association, not all floors can be renovated. There is a layer of aluminum oxide wear-resistant layer on the surface of the laminate floor. Renovating the floor will destroy the wear-resistant layer and cause the floor to deteriorate. Therefore, the laminate floor cannot be refurbished. Only solid wood flooring, engineered wood flooring and bamboo flooring with a surface thickness of 4 mm can be refurbished. Because the floor surface after grinding several times, will be polished off 1-2 mm, if the floor surface layer is too thin, it will polish the middle layer, affecting the floor life, so we must ensure that the surface thickness of the floor is greater than 4 mm. Consumers can learn about the thickness of the surface of their own floor from the vendor.
From the perspective of the renovation of the above floors, floor consumption trends, solid wood flooring and floor heating floors will become a hot spot for consumption. In the case of a decline in the entire floor industry, sales of solid wood flooring will continue to increase. Traditional solid wood flooring is still decreasing, and it is gradually being replaced by solid wood flooring. Three-story, multi-layer solid wood flooring has become the main body of solid wood composite flooring.
Judging from the consumption structure of solid wood floors at home and abroad, the three-tier solid wood flooring with the European market as the mainstream and the multi-layer solid wood flooring with the mainstream in the US market have all experienced rapid growth, and the technology and market are constantly maturing. Various types of flooring have achieved great development. Solid wood laminate flooring has become the preferred flooring material for many home improvement installations due to its advantages such as “stability, easy installation, and ease of careâ€. It has gradually become a mainstream wood flooring product. Changed the concept of consumption of solid wood flooring, three-story, multi-layer solid wood composite flooring into the main theme of today's solid wood consumption.
However, there are many brands of solid wood flooring, with different specifications, mixed advantages and disadvantages, and high and low prices, and the appearance difference is very small, which causes great difficulties for consumers to choose. The advantages and disadvantages of solid wood composite flooring, not to mention consumers, even experts are sometimes difficult to distinguish their quality alone. Therefore, be sure to ask for more information during the purchase, understand and compare, get a sample or buy a board for some experimentation. For example, tapping on a hard object, scratching the surface, observing the thickness of the surface layer, and testing whether the surface layer is easy to peel off, soaking in water, burning with a cigarette butt, and the like. The experts reminded the consumers that they should carefully select the parquet and beware of the three “flickers†of the sales staff.
"Flicker" one: shiny and easy to wear
The so-called "bright luster" tends to have a lot of moisture, parquet is a natural product itself, and only light and bright does not mean anything. Instead of using high-quality logs or veneers in order to reduce costs, paints are used to smear the surface of poor floors with the so-called "fullness of color" and shoddy. As a new brand, Dexia Flooring has done a very good job at this point: Due to the use of high-grade, carefully selected veneer, the natural-colored Dexia floor can be made without masking defects and color differences by adding color to the paint. The wood grain is clearer and the color is more natural. In terms of wear resistance, the 11-layer paint and high-end technology of 8 floors, 3 floors, and 11 floors increase the scratch resistance and wear resistance of the wooden floor, which greatly increases the service life.
"Flicker" two: good import brand
At present, the brand of solid wood flooring in the market is very confusing and the frequency of new brands is quite high. About three or five brands are born every month. People are also tired of the brand while paying attention to the brand. Into the flooring market, "Japanese imports", "German imports" or "top", "boutique" signs can be seen everywhere. Experts pointed out that a truly mature brand is very focused on communicating with consumers and after-sales service. Whether there is property insurance, whether or not there is a warranty card, whether or not the product is sold by the factory, whether the product is sold exclusively, etc. are all consumers should understand before choosing the product. Otherwise, there will be no one accepting problems in the course of use, which brings a lot of inconvenience to themselves.
"Fudge" three: green floor
In recent years, "healthy" and "green" have become popular words. In response to the "green environmental protection" publicity campaign, the standards for green building materials stipulated by the international environmental protection organizations are formaldehyde emissions not exceeding 9mg/100g, but for the health of you and your family members, brands that are lower than this standard should be selected as far as possible. In general, floors that are truly environmentally friendly will have product certification from an authoritative organization. It can be seen that before the purchase of the floor, consumers need to do some market information collection, and fully understand the relevant professional testing data and certification agencies to be able to publicize the various products “examine and verifyâ€.
It is understood that with the advent of the heating period, floor heating has attracted people's attention, and many floor brands have begun to play a new concept of “floor heatingâ€, hoping to attract more attention. The "Standard for Ground Radiant Heating Flooring" drafted by China Timber Distribution Association has been issued. The new standard has certain provisions for the relevant floor heating source, floor covering and product selection. The introduction of the new standard will be conducive to the long-term development of the floor heating floor market, and is expected to standardize the existing floor heating market. Zhang Jingxian, deputy secretary-general of the floor committee of China Timber Distribution Association, believes that after the standard is issued, it will mainly solve problems in three aspects. First, how to choose heat sources. There are many types of floor heating, including water pipes, heating wires, cables, electric heating films, etc. There must be a scientific choice for floor selection, and what type of flooring should be specified for what type of heat source to install; the second is floor covering technology, even if it has good Heat source, pavement technology can not reach the heating effect; the third is what is floor heating. Warm floor heating is better, no cracking after heat conduction, less than the average formaldehyde content of the floor.
In a building materials market floor area, the reporter consulted about ten flooring brand sales personnel on the question of which type of floor can be used for floor heating. Almost all sales personnel advertise that their products are dedicated to floor heating. However, according to the reporter’s understanding, only 20% of the flooring market is dedicated to floor heating, and 55% of floors cannot be used at all in floor heating systems.
According to industry insiders, the standard thickness of floor heating is 6.5-8.5mm, laminate flooring is generally 6-8mm, and three-layer wood flooring is 8-9mm, compared with multi-layer wood, which is most suitable for geothermal and floor heating because it The stability is better, and the comfort and feel are much better than the laminate flooring.
In general, three-layer parquet and solid wood flooring are not recommended. The upper and lower layers of a three-story solid wood composite floor are higher-density wood of the same wood species and pine wood in the middle. Since the density of the middle layer is much lower than the density of the upper and lower layers, the coefficient of expansion of the low-density objects after moisture is higher than that of high density. Materials, which are likely to cause the three-story solid wood flooring in the damp after the expansion of the middle layer is greater than the upper and lower layers, resulting in floor cracking. Most solid wood floors are not suitable for floor heating, and a small part of solid wood can be used for floor heating. However, due to the restrictions on wood species, special processing is also required. The price is relatively high, which is not suitable for ordinary households.
According to industry sources, the introduction of "ground floor heating floor standards" will integrate the floor heating industry, and some quality and technically competent floor companies will take advantage of "standardsetters" to fully seize the high ground of competition, establish industry barriers, and poor quality products. Manufacturers, will appear in the "standard" out of the original shape, if you do not step up technological transformation will not be able to escape the fate of cuts or even shut down.