Installation and
maintenance

Take care of your wooden floors

When you love your home and nourish its soul, you are also taking care of yourself: you create the best conditions for your home to mutually take care of and regenerate those who live there. Your wooden floor deserves care and attention just like a person. A few simple precautions are enough. Regular maintenance with the recommended delicate detergents eliminates stains from the parquet, while preserving its integrity and beauty.

Soap for standard wood care. Concentrated high-gloss cleaner for oiled, varnished and waxed wood surfaces.

DETERSOAP

Wax for special wood care. Wax emulsion for preservation of oiled wood.

CLEANWAX

How to install the parquet

The beauty of a wooden floor is the result of valuable teamwork and the contribution of qualified installers. The care in applying the screed determines a better substrate, which can withstand the stresses and ensure greater stability. Proper insulation enhances comfort, thereby protecting against moisture. Careful installation makes the surfaces perfectly linear, thereby preventing the parquet from creaking with every step.

TYPES OF PARQUET LAYER
Antico Asolo floors can be laid using the glued or floating method.

LAYING METHOD: GLUED
• Lay the glue on the sub-floor which must remain dry, strong and clean;
• The glue will be laid with a spatula of the number suited to the finish to be laid and perpendicular to the laying direction;
• Respect the opened tin life of the glue.

LAYING METHOD: FLOATING
Any screed able to resist the static and dynamic loads required for the floor is suitable for laying the floating parquet.
The floating parquet is always laid on a vapor membrane (or barrier if necessary) or a layer of acoustic insulation, usually composed of an underlay of compressible material or by a felt approximately 2.5mm thick. During laying the membrane or vapour barrier should be turned up on the walls behind the skirting board leaving a distance from the walls proportional to the dimension of the floor. In general a perimeter gap of approx. 1 mm is recommended for a pavement of 4x4 m approx.

 

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Spread the Litokol Litoplus K55 cement glue evenly on the support.
Cut the mosaic tile according to the desired dimensions.
Treat the cut edge with sealant of the type “Sigilpack”.
Glue the mosaic to the support.
Open the product pack.
In the pack is the catalyst (component B). Cut the angle of the catalyst envelope.
Pour all the catalyst (component B) in the component A.
Mix with care the mixture to catalyze all the product.
The packages are dosed to make no errors. The mixture is workable for about 45 minuts at +23°C.
Put the mixture on the tile.
Stick the mixture in the tile groutings, with a rubberized flat trowel.
Make diagonal movements by the tile groutings.
Cover all the tile groutings with the mixture.
Take away the excess mixture with the rubberized flat trowel.
Make cleanliness and finishing with the fresh mixture
Make cleanliness and finishing with the fresh mixture
Put clean water on the tile. Make a first cleanliness with circolar movements.
Pay attention to not to empty the tile groutings. Erase all the halos from the surface.
Seal the tesseras and remove the excess mixture from the tile.
Use clean water. Exchange frequently the washing water and the sponge, if soaked in mixture.
Make a second cleanliness with a rigid sponge to have a smooth and closed surface.
Remove the mixture from the tesseras, without empting the groutings, and drying the excess water.
After at least 20 minutes you can erase the transparent halos.
Mix the same quantity of LITONET with clean water.
Put the 1:1 LITONET solution.
Keep the solution on the tile for 15 minuts.
Rinse out with clean water.

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