Wood even in the 21st century remains the best way to finish the house. Wood is a really reliable and environmentally friendly material. This is especially true with regard to the choice of the method of laying the floor, because if we do not touch the stretch Chinese ceiling, then the small feet of our children stamp on the wooden floor. It is important to choose not only a strong, but healthy in all respects flooring. However, the tree has a significant drawback - it is unstable to external influences, simply put, rots. How to deal with this negative phenomenon, we will tell in our article.
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Rotting the floor - what is it?
Even the best floor, made of expensive wood, can start to rot for two reasons, first, because of poor initial laying, and secondly, because of improper operation.
The rot of the floor has a fungal origin. Rot (mold) does not spread in dry, clean, ventilated places. It appears where it is damp, cold, humid, where the temperature changes or the inevitable contact with the soil are constant. Fighting mold is hard, long and quite expensive. After all, molds are fungi, and mushrooms, as is known, have the property of spreading massively due to the growth of the mycelium. It is easier to make preventive maintenance by treating the wooden floor with a special means of decay, thus protecting it from imminent destruction.
Protection of the wooden floor from decay
Fungus of a wooden floor is not only pernicious, but also harmful for people. You can not live in those rooms where mold spreads. This can lead to detrimental health effects. It is better to be prudent in advance and protect the wood floor from decay. But how to do it qualitatively and safely? Let's find out.
First, you should carefully choose the wood intended for laying the floor. If the tree is felled in an inappropriate season and not well dried (less than a year), then the probability of its subsequent decay is high. Therefore, buy wood in reliable, trusted places with a good reputation.
Secondly, even if you bought floorboards in a safe place, they should still be treated with antiseptics for wood, as well as varnish or paint to avoid the appearance of fungus.
Thirdly, it is necessary to pre-arrange preliminary measures for preventive protection against the appearance of mold - to make competent ventilation of the floor.
Wood flooring for protection
To begin with, you need to purchase special antiseptics, varnishes and paints for the wooden floor in specialized stores. The varnish gives the wooden floor a shiny or matte protective film, while not changing either the relief or the color of the floor. Some special varnishes contain fungicides in the composition, which not only prevent the spread of fungi, but also do not allow the floor to crack and fade (darken). Special water-soluble paints for the wooden floor protect the tree from the negative effects of moisture, and as a pleasant bonus give it an attractive appearance.
If the fungus on the wooden floor has already appeared, or if you assume that in your case the likelihood of its occurrence is high, then you can help special formulations, antiseptic agents for processing wood of well-known brands such as "Wood healer", "Bioks", " Biosept "," Aquatex "," Pinotex "," Elkon "and many others. You can apply them yourself, at home, using a paint roller or a normal brush, following the manufacturer's instructions on the product package. Quality water repellent antiseptics are not washed off with water and effectively fight mold on the wooden floor.
But how else can you protect the wooden floor from the fungus? Of course, with the help of proper ventilation.
Proper ventilation - reliable prevention of fungus
The fungus of the wooden floor may not appear in your home and your life if it is prudent to ensure that both the room (and the floor) is properly ventilated.
But what is it and how to properly implement it? Let's talk about this in more detail, because it will depend not only on comfort, but also on the health of all people living in the house.
If the system of ventilation of a wooden floor is adjusted in a private house, then such a problem as the appearance of a fungus on a wooden floor will not arise. After all, if air exchange takes place, then it effectively eliminates any accumulations of dampness and humidity, which otherwise could cause a rapid spread of mushrooms in the underground room, and they would eventually lead to the complete destruction of the wooden floor (if no action is taken on their elimination).
For ventilation of the floor is responsible for approximately one and a half centimeter airspace, which is necessarily left between the flooring of the decorative flooring and the heater. The floor on the logs also serves to provide full ventilation and makes it possible to build all the communications necessary in a private house.
There is a proven method of ventilating underground space by installing special wall grills that are installed in the floor above the ventilation holes. However, these ventilation grilles are better to cut at the junction between two wooden floorboards, so as much as possible you can minimize the area of the notch, which means that the strength of the wooden floorboards will not be disturbed.
Until the ventilation grilles are completely embedded, it is necessary to calculate the airflows that occur in each room, in order to mark a specific place for their precise installation. Air flows, namely their direction, depend to a large extent on the presence, location and intensity of the heating devices available in the room (and in the room as a whole). The places where the ventilation grilles are located must be free and not cluttered with furniture and other items.
Proper ventilation of the wooden floor in a private house with the purpose of its reliable protection against fungus also includes the installation of special vent skirtings, which are equipped with holes of no more than 10-15 mm in diameter for constant air circulation. They are mounted, as a rule, only along one of the walls of the room. After all, the opposite wall will be ventilated due to the same skirting installed in the next room, built into it. In the same way, the floor at the opposite wall will also be ventilated, since it closely adjoins the interior partition. Also, floor ventilation will be provided with a vent pipe, which should be taken outside the house at approximately one and a half meters. Thus, a pressure drop is provided, which will contribute to an increase in the speed and intensity of the air flow.
So, in this article, we tried to talk as much as possible about how to protect the floor in a private house from decay (fungus), how to properly make floor ventilation, and about what effective methods exist to fight decay in a private house. Further we suggest you to look through video on this theme.
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