Why do you want to lay a keel for solid wood flooring

Solid wood flooring will be deformed due to weather reasons, dry shrinkage and wet expansion, heat expansion and cold contraction, so it should be fixed, so that it only changes within a certain range, and so on.

One way to do this is to fix it to the keel with a nail (there are other methods, such as glue directly to the concrete floor).

In addition, the general cement floor is very uneven, the use of keel, very easy to level, the cost is also low, so the installation of solid wood floor with keel has become the most commonly used method.

However, the keel installation method also has disadvantages, one is that it raises the ground, the second is not firm enough, and the third is that the floor cavity will sound when walking on it.

Therefore, the southerners changed the keel to a splint, which improved these problems to a certain extent, but the leveling aspect was not as good as the keel, and the cost was higher.

The Europeans will use the adhesive method to better solve those three problems, but the cost is higher and the requirements for the cement floor are higher.

It's really a fish and a bear's paw, you can't get both!

What's so strange?

Laminate flooring can also be laid with keels, if you are not afraid of the deformation of the board. Hardwood flooring can also be done without keel, but your floor is required to be super horizontal!

In fact, I don't understand the principle, I personally think that the keel is not easy to change in order to maintain the nature of the solid wood for ventilation, and the feeling of stepping on it after installation is also very good, and there is a feeling of "empty".

Composite, easy to install, no need to lay the keel, the lock between the floor and the floor is very strong, because it is bonded into materials, I imagine that the keel board will not carry you to step on.

1. Playing a role in leveling the ground: playing the keel can play a role in leveling when the cement ground is not very flat.

2. Moisture-proof: There is a keel as an intermediate layer between the solid wood floor and the ground, and the solid wood floor does not need to contact the ground to have a certain air circulation, and the service life of the floor will be extended.

3. Better foot feel: Many people choose solid wood flooring because it feels comfortable on the feet, and the keel is used as a fixed support, and the gap between them makes the solid wood floor more elastic and more comfortable and gentle to walk.

4. Noise reduction: When people walk on it, they will feel much gentler and there is no noise.

The disadvantages of solid wood flooring without keel.

1. Greatly reduce the foot feeling of solid wood flooring, it is better to spend less money to lay laminate flooring and composite flooring;

2. The wood properties of solid wood have not been changed, that is, the arrangement structure in the direction of the fiber, and the probability of deformation has not changed much;

3. Solid wood flooring cannot effectively avoid moisture, and the traditional moisture-proof film cannot solve the problem of air circulation under the floor.

Is it okay not to hit the keel when laying the solid wood floor? Okay, it's okay in the short term for three or five years, but if you think about it, ten or twenty years later, I hope that consumers will consider the purpose and reason for choosing solid wood flooring when choosing solid wood flooring.

It is best to use keel for solid wood flooring, and it also needs to be nailed to fix, because the heat rises and shrinks, such as the floor laid in winter may arch in spring and summer. In Suzhou, it is about 40 yuan per square meter (including artificial nail keel delivery), and Yancheng is not much worse.