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Tips for Wood Flooring Installation: Flooring Accessories

Flooring accessories are important components in the floor laying process. Laying the floor is a meticulous and cumbersome thing. In addition to the floor, there are various materials, and one less will affect the laying of the floor and future use. Wood flooring could create a warm atmosphere in your living space. Consider how the right wood flooring accessories bring this combination to another level, and allow the true beauty of your wood flooring to shine.

 

Tips for Wood Flooring Installation: Flooring Accessories

 

Flooring Accessories: Floor Trim

To highlight the advantages of wood flooring, King has created Aluminium DPS system. It’s a system of flooring trims that allows the expansion of wood floors with thickness from 5 to 21 mm. More in detail, there are aluminium profiles for the junction of same thickness wood floors (DPS Connection Profile), profiles for the connection of different thickness wood floors (DPS Adaptation Profile) , profiles for the neat finishing of the edge of wood flooring covering (DPS Edge Profile) and profiles for the stair (DPS Stair Nosing).

 

DPS 540_2 H14-21 223 connection profile DPS 521 H5-9 adaption profile
DPS Connection Profile DPS 540 H14-21 223 DPS Adaptation Profile DPS 521 H5-9
DPS Edge Profile DPS 532 H7-16 DPS Stair Nosing DPS 529 H7-15 229
DPS Edge Profile DPS 532 H7-16 DPS Stair Nosing DPS 529 H7-15 229

 

The aluminium DPS system utilises aluminium bases and tops with a unique linking screw which allows the height to be adjusted in a wide range. The top profile is available in different finishes of matt anodised aluminium. On our colour catalog, there is the possibility to choose among many wood decors to combine the floor to the chosen profile perfectly.

Flooring Accessories: Floor Nail

Most wooden floors have grooves to fasten the adjacent wooden floors. After buckling, the floor looks flat and balanced, but it is best to nail the floor nails to make the floor more stable and not easy to arch, to avoid loose floors. The floor nail has the characteristics of convenient installation root and better anti-loosening effect. It can effectively solve the problem of sound when stepping on the floor.

Floor nail

Flooring Accessories: Floor keel

Since the floor of most owner ’s rooms is not completely flat, in order to ensure the level of the wooden floor paving, the keel plays the role of ground leveling. The solid wood floor cannot be directly laid on the ground. The wooden keel needs to be paved to increase the solid wood floor ’s Feeling. If you are laying laminate flooring and multi-layer flooring, you generally do not need keel primer.

Wood floor keel

Floor keel can be divided into wooden keel, plastic steel keel, aluminum alloy keel and so on. Wooden keel is widely used. The quality of the keel is directly related to the firmness of the floor and the home environment.

Flooring Accessories: Floor mats & moisture barrier

Because the laying of reinforced and multi-layer floors does not require keels, it uses the suspension laying method. The floor is directly laid on the floor mat. This method is easy to lay, short in construction period and low in cost. To achieve the role of moisture-proof, mute.

Floor moisture barrier

The moisture-proof film is laid between the keel and the solid wood floor to isolate moisture and prevent the solid wood floor from being damp. Generally, each moisture-proof film should overlap with the adjacent moisture-proof film by 5 cm, and the corner should be 5 cm more.

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