Despite the undeniable advantages of natural wood boards, its main purpose is flooring indoors. It is not suitable for year-round use outside the home, even with maximum protection by paintwork.
For these purposes, another material has been created that combines the best properties of wood and the advantages of polymers. A wood-polymer composite, called a decking or decking, is made using new modern technology, mixing polypropylene and sawdust. This melt, under the influence of high temperature, has plasticity, which makes it possible to form a terrace board from it by extrusion. Due to its high resistance to moisture, solar radiation, high and low outdoor temperatures and excellent appearance, this material received its third name - garden parquet.
If you are going buy parquet board for finishing floors in your home, do not forget to purchase garden parquet, without which it is impossible to create durable flooring around the pool, the floor in the sauna or on the balcony. This material is in perfect harmony with other types of finishes, such as ceramic tiles, decorative concrete, natural stone and allows you to create interesting coating compositions of different textures and colors.
The terrace board can have a corrugated surface, which gives it not only additional strength, but also makes it non-slippery, which is especially important when laying paths around pools. In addition, the corrugated surface has a healing massage effect, which makes walking on it comfortable and enjoyable.
If you are interested solid wood sale, then, studying the price lists for this material, you will see that garden parquet is not much cheaper. However, its price is quite justified by the long service life, which is at least 25 years with minimal requirements for maintenance and repair.This material is non-combustible, not subject to decay and has a warm and pleasant texture of wood. In addition, it does not give chips and other defects during processing, and its laying is no more difficult than installing a conventional parquet board.
It is important that the terrace board has not one, but two front sides. On one, corrugation is applied, and the other has a wood texture, which allows you to use either side depending on the purpose of the coating. To lay a composite terrace board, it is necessary to prepare a solid and even foundation of concrete with a thickness of at least 100 millimeters.