Larch floorboard: features and benefits

The flooring of wood today still remains the best solution, which has no analogues. One of the most popular options for wooden decking is considered to be larch flooring. This material has excellent qualities and characteristics, has a very beautiful appearance, as well as an attractive price. In this article we will take a closer look at all the features and advantages of this option of flooring.

Larch is quite popular in construction due to its versatility. This material is used not only as a floor covering, the larch board is widely used even in shipbuilding and carpentry.

Grooved larch boards do not need additional processing, they do not need to be polished, opened with varnish or paint. The optimum thickness of larch boards for flooring is 35 mm. Such a thickness of the material will allow in the future to grind the floor to update it, you can repeat this procedure at least 10-15 times.

This type of wood has a very beautiful color and texture. Also, this material has high strength and hardness. But its main feature is that, unlike other wooden materials, larch is completely resistant to moisture. It is thanks to these qualities that the material is widely used to create parquet floors, floors for terraces, bathrooms and baths. It can also be laid in the area around the pool.

Larch floorboard has a number of advantages, namely:

• This wood species has a low thermal conductivity, and, therefore, will not need to spend extra money on insulation for the floor.
• The material has sound insulation properties, perfectly suppresses extraneous sounds and noise.However, it is very important that the material is of high quality, and the flooring is properly done, otherwise the material itself may produce unpleasant creaking sounds.
• Long service life - a wooden larch array will last you for many decades.
• Affordable cost - the price of a given wood species is correlated with prices for high-quality laminate or parquet.

• The material contains gum, which increases the resistance of the tree to many aggressive effects, for example, fungal and mold lesions, as well as insects.
• Environmental friendliness and safety - larch is an environmentally friendly material, it does not cause allergies and is completely safe for human health.
• This material is breathable, so moisture will not accumulate in the space under the floor, which means that stagnant processes of decay will not occur.
• The richness of texture - Siberian larch is considered to be one of the most beautiful wooden materials, its chic amber shades fill your home with warmth and coziness.

• Resistance to moisture - thanks to this property, the material is ideal for use as a floor covering, even in rooms such as a kitchen or bathroom.
• Resistance to temperature changes - larch perfectly withstands temperature fluctuations in the range of over 100 degrees Celsius (from minus 60 to plus 50 degrees).
• High reliability and durability - the larch floor is made not only in apartments and houses, but also in dance classes, gyms and other rooms in which a large number of people gather. This material is very durable and can withstand even very large loads.
• The ability to use boards for finishing the floor not only indoors, but also in open areas, for example, on the terrace, balcony, garden or gazebo.

It should be borne in mind that profiled larch of radial cutting has the best qualities and characteristics. If other cutting techniques, semi-radial or tangential, were used, the quality of the material may be somewhat worse.

The tree entering sale is divided into several grades. The quality of the wood cut, as well as the presence of various defects on the raw material, affect the larch grade.

The following types of wood exist:

• Extra class - this material does not contain defects at all, it has the same uniform pattern and texture. This class is considered the best, most prestigious and expensive.
• Grade "A" - on wood there can be no more than one defect per running meter, as well as small cracks that occur in the process of drying wood. The pattern of the canvas and texture may also be slightly different.
• Grade "B" - already a little more defects on wood are allowed.
• Grade "C" - The most inexpensive option for wood, but the number of defects can be very large.

On sale you can find a large assortment of different options for floorboards. The most popular are:

• Grooved boards. Grooved board is in great demand because of the convenience of its installation. At the same time the surface of a floor turns out uniform and does not contain gaps. This material has high strength.

• Glued boards. Larch board has a number of excellent characteristics and in some cases may even be better than solid wood.

The advantages of this material include:

1. High strength - radial sawing board has excellent characteristics for durability and reliability.
2. The ability to adjust the length to the required dimensions - 4 or 6 meters.
3. The board spliced ​​from fragments is practically not subject to various deformations during drying, unlike a massive board.
4. The appearance of laminated wood is not inferior to the whole array, the floor will look no less stylish and elegant.

• Massive boards. Massive boards - durable, durable and reliable. They can be of various sizes. After laying the flooring, it is best to varnish it - this will increase the service life of the material.

• Terrace boards. Decking is ideal for outdoor installation, this type of larch has an even greater resistance to moisture.

Larch - great for flooring.

No matter how good this material may be, its lifespan will also depend on its styling technique:

• So, the surface on which the boards of larch are laid is very important. For example, the concrete floor will need to be pre-treated with special mastic, which has waterproofing properties, after which it is also necessary to lay plywood sheets. If you are laying a new coating on the old boards, they certainly need to be pre-leveled by grinding.
• During laying it is necessary to carefully control the level of the floor - it must be perfectly level. Failure to comply with this condition can lead to the fact that in the future the board will begin to creak or break.

• Mounted flooring or along the walls, or at an angle of 90 degrees to them. If you lay the boards at an angle of 90 degrees to the window, you can prevent the appearance of a shadow effect between the boards.
• Also, experts recommend before starting the laying to bring the boards inside the house or apartment and leave them for several days so that they adapt to the temperature inside the room, and after their laying no deformations occurred.
• Mounted larch boards close to each other, without any gaps. It is quite possible to cope with laying the floor yourself, however, if you encounter such a task for the first time and do not know all the subtleties of this work, it would be better to turn to the services of professionals.

You can learn how to choose a larch finishing board from the following video.