Terminology
Terms used
Below are a few of the terms that may crop up when discussing wood flooring with specialists.
Engineered wood flooring has a wood wear layer (the top) at least 2.5 mm thick.
Wood is a natural, living material: wooden floors are warm, comfortable and easy to maintain.
Panaget engineered wood flooring has three layers: a wood veneer or wear layer (the part that is visible), a core and a counterbalance.
Panaget wood flooring are of 4 types :
- Two strip
Two strip :
Two identical sized staves are bonded onto a base to form a single strip.
- Single strip
Single strip :
The strips are made from a single stave of wood in various widths.
- Special strips and blocks
Special strips and blocks :
Chevron, herringbone, marquetry
- Solid wood flooring
Solid wood flooring :
The Panaget range has been extended to include solid wood, the most traditional of flooring.
The different wood types are called species, with giving a noticeably excellent product. Panaget’s wide range of engineered wood flooring extends from light species such as chestnut, maple, ash and beech, through to a whole variety of darker wood shades, such as doussie, jatoba or walnut.
- Trunk
The lighter peripheral parts of a strip are the young part of the wood, the slab.
The slab is obtained by vertically cutting the trunk and taking the first and the last boards, which therefore gives a wavy as opposed to a straight grain.
A strip referred to as "chamfered" has been machined in order to take away the sharp edge opposite the right-hand edge of the strip.
To lay a floor for nailing, pieces of wood are used as backing strips to fix the wood flooring.
Panaget wood flooring comes in two forms:
- Varnished: synthetic resin is used to protect the wood from the dirt and stains of everyday life.
- Oiled: 100% solvent-free, made from natural ingredients, and reinforced with hard wax.
