Parquet Board Flooring
Solid wood birch parquet boards are a sustainable floor covering with an attractive appearance and low price. Birchwood is one of the whitest and most environmentally friendly, as it contains tar, providing strong bactericidal properties. To make parquet boards, mature trees at least 50 years old are used. With a Janka Hardness rating of 1260 to 1470 out of 4000, the White Birch wood species falls within the medium range for hardwood flooring options.
Features of color.
Birch is a sapwood tree. Its wood has an even light color with a pleasant silky tint. The cut has chaotic patterns with dark inclusions; the core often contains inclusions of a bronze hue reminiscent of hieroglyphic writing. The base tone varies from golden amber to reddish. The wide variety of shades of birch parquet results from the smooth, uniform texture of birch: the high susceptibility of wood to coloring and tinting provides unlimited scope for the creative imagination of flooring manufacturers.
Birch planks and shaped inserts are often combined with other species to create floors with a unique and rich pattern.
Characteristics of birch parquet boards
- Hardness – above average (3.5 kgf/m2 on the Brinell scale)
- Uniform density
- Easy to process
- Resistant to splitting
- Unusual wood pattern
The raw materials prepared for birch parquet boards hold fasteners perfectly and are easy to sharpen, cut, and polish. The wood's average density provides high sound and heat insulation.
Elastic wood lends well to gluing, tinting, cutting, and polishing.
A massive birch board looks especially original after processing. Its surface takes on an amber hue, diluted with elegant dark veins
