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| History of Parquet | Care of Parquet | Cleaning of Parquet | |
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History of Parquet
The mosaic parquet flooring industry flourished worldwide, but for some reasons during 1980’s-1990’s virtually disappeared. All mass produced wood flooring materials are now only T&G. The majority of the floors are ¾”(18mm) thick. Newly introduced 5/16”(8mm) thick solid T&G strip flooring claimed to be environmentally friendly. This product is not environmentally friendly. This clam is false. It is a completely disposable product; there is no way to sand it. Recently introduced laminate flooring is T&G too.
The parquet flooring division consisted of 17 factories producing over 60 million square feet of various parquet construction. The high quality parquet flooring that they produced was 3-ply, 40mm thick (1.5”), with a ½”(13mm) thick top hardwood layer. This construction was bulky, extremely unstable and expensive. The parquet had to be nailed down to a wooden sub floor. Mr. Efros decided to eliminate the wasteful two bottom plies and develop a system to glue the parquet directly to the sub-floor. The biggest challenge was to create a technology of parquet installation, finishing and maintenance, which would produce a finished floor that would last for over 100 years. In 1975 Mr. Efros immigrated to the USA. He found that unlike the U.S.S.R., where the parquet industry offers a full package, consisting of the manufacturing of products, its installation, finishing and maintenance, the USA parquet manufacturers only manufacture the flooring. They do not control the installation, finishing, or maintenance. After 25 years of research and development, he successfully completed his project of manufacturing a practically indestructible parquet construction (including water damage), that when used with special adhesives and finishes eliminate the need to replace a floor for over 100 years. |
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For
centuries wood parquet floors were desirable products available only to the
rich. By the end of the 19th century, with the development of the steel
nail, tongue and groove wood flooring was introduced. Although the flooring
was inefficient (only the top 1/8” (3mm) of the ¾” (18mm) thickness is
sandable/usable) it was a big progress at that time. At the end of the
1930’s, with the development of concrete floors and flooring adhesives,
mosaic straight edge (no tongue and groove) 5/16”(8mm) thick construction
was introduced. This much thinner product had the same sandable/usable
thickness as ¾”(18mm) T&G flooring.
The idea of making high quality parquet flooring
to be produced in volume, affordably and environmentally friendly was
originated in 1970 by Anatoli Efros, the founder of Parquet By Dian. At that
time he was the head of the department of Ukrainian Woodworking Ministry,
producing wooden components for construction.