When comes it is time to do repair, important not only to know nuances of laying, but also to make right choice of linoleum cloth. For a start it is worth understanding features of the room: the size, humidity, requirements to wear, and only then to choose material. When choosing it is worth being guided by product class. Linoleum can be ranged from normal household to special commercial.
Advantages of covering
Linoleum – the universal, checked by time means for flooring. It is used both for normal apartments and houses, and for office and trade rooms, in shops, on production, in public places. In view of that conditions in rooms differ, and linoleum is required different. For example, in kindergartens, hospitals it is better to use strong, durable, natural material – marmoleum. In shops of productions or corridors of buildings with big passability recommend to stack especially strong PVC-linoleum with high coefficient of wear. On entrance zones in shops and the markets often apply rubber linoleum.
When choosing covering be guided by characteristics of material. Carry to them:
- type of the raw materials which are the cornerstone (natural ingredients or polymers, rubber);
- availability of the warming substrate;
- thickness and rigidity;
- resistance to wear and abradability;
- homogeneity or heterogeneity of the drawing.
To consider physical properties and characteristics of floor cloth extremely important as it not only influences type of laying, but also provides long life cycle of covering. It is important to learn to understand marking of classes of linoleum.
Pay attention: any linoleum is stacked only on the firm and equal basis. Draft floor can be from wooden boards, parquet, keramoplita, old concrete tie. Preparation of the basis is in removing fragile boards, to replace segments of old tiles, it is reliable to strengthen them. For alignment of wooden floor the surface is dimmed sheets of RSD, fibreboard or plywood. The collapsed or uneven concrete tie is dismantled and fill in new. Only after full alignment, dust removal and priming it is possible to lay new linoleum.
Natural or artificial?
Linoleum is subdivided by types of raw materials from which it is made. Generally allocate natural (marmoleum) and artificial.
Pluses of natural linoleum are that it consists of eco-friendly raw materials. As a part of marmoleum there is pith tree (bark), linseed oil, jute fibrous inclusions, dyes and pitches. Thanks to them natural linoleum has long life cycle, is resistant to blows, abrasion and wear. At the same time, it is rather expensive material which demands careful storage and accurate transportation and laying as it because of fragile structure can break or crumble at the edges.
If you have decided to stop on natural linoleum, you will be able to find it in hardware stores in the form of rolls, tiles or strips. Marmoleum 2 mm thick it is possible to stack safely houses, and material from 2 to 4 mm with success will serve in public places. When laying natural cloth, glue is not used, it with success is replaced by "groove crest" and "latch" technology.
The big group of artificial linoleum includes the following subgroups:
- PVC – linoleuma;
- cloth on the basis of rubber;
- nitrocellulose material;
- gliftalevy linoleum.
All artificial cloths more elastic flexible, than natural, even thin, nitrocellulose linoleum. However, they are more fire-dangerous, toxic, for example, rubber Relin it is forbidden to stack in premises.
Substrate
Linoleuma are subdivided on availability and types of underlying causes. The floor covering with substrate has higher heat and sound protective properties. Frothed polymer, jute fibers, stopper layer acts as basis. The Bezosnovny covering has lower wear resistance, however it can be used in rooms with high humidity.
Classes of products
Linoleuma with any basis on the strength characteristics are ranged on classes. So, classes with 21 on 23 are appropriated to cloth with the smallest level of resistance to abradability and blows. Such types are suitable for living rooms and are called household. The group of commercial linoleum has marking 31-34. For special polymeric materials with high wear resistance and crash-worthiness use the range of classes from 41 to 43.