EUROPEAN OAK

COMMERICIAL AND BOTANIC DENOMINATION: MULTILAYER ELEMENTS OF BROAD LEAVED AND CONIFER WITH T&G SYSTEM ON 4 SIDES FOR WOOD FLOORING

ORIGIN: Centre and West Europe

DENOMINATION: European Oak

BOTANIC DENOMINATION: Quercus petraia (sessilis) o pedunculata

GEOGRAPHICS VEGETATION AREA: Europe

PANOPLY: Gross

FIBRE: Straight, sometimes deviate

VOLUME MASS AT 12% OF MOISTURE: 550 - 970 kg/m3

WITHDRAW: Medium - high

DIMENSIONAL STABILITY: Medium - high

HARDNESS OF THE BRINNEL PENETRATION (law EN 1534): Medium - high

DURABILITY (resistance to fungi and bugs): Good for the top layer. Scarce for the sapwood

OXIDATION: Medium - low

COLOUR TONE: Subject to the variation in relation to the surface treatment and light exposal

FORMALDEHYDE EMISSION: Lower than law limits

FURTHER NEWS: The section can highlight the marrow rays (mirrors) that aren’t defects. Possibility of the presence of tannins.

QUALITY: On a quality level the product correspond to the law EN13489

MOISTURE: The elements are supplied with moisture between 5% and 9%

SYMBOLS: The symbols under mentioned are in reference to the appearance class of the material

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INSTRUCTION FOR USE

PRODUCT AT EXCLUSIVELY PROFESSIONAL USE (ON A QUALITY LEVEL THE PRODUCT AGREE TO THE LAW UNI-EN 13489:2004)

MATERIAL CONTROL: The material must be checked during the delivery. The utilization or the alienation from the buyer’s side consist in the acceptation from him and at the same time the recognition of the correspondence of what has been agreed, with consequent renounce to any kind of claim. For eventual vices and/or defects of the material pointed out during the installation, the buyer must immediately suspend it and denounce those vices within eight days from the discovery, punishment the decadence of every rights.

The duties of the supplier cannot go further then the replacement of the material recognized as defective.

INSTRUCTION FOR USE

Wood is a natural material and so it tends to acclimatize to the diffent environmental conditions, temperature and relative air’s moisture are elements extremely influential in the wood dimensional stability therefore it’s necessary to keep in environmental a temperature between 18°C and 20°C and a relative air moisture between about the 40% and 60%.

In winter it’s a good thing to check the environmental moisture with an hygrometer and if the moisture will be under the 40% you have use dampers, the eventual slits of the floor that will develop with time, are attributable to the progressive dehydration (drying up) of the wood are not to be attributable to a defect of the wood or of the installation of the material.

Don’t overcharge with excessive weight and bad-distributed the surface of the flooring.

In the first period after the delivery, avoid to cover with rugs or other in the way to keep off local stonalizations cause by a missing oxidation by light exposure.

Arrange at the entrance of the house put a door mat in the way to keep out from the soles dusts and abrasive particles that can damage the finishing treatment, during the installation of the floor do not use any kind of masting tapes directly on the floor in the way to don’t compromise the realise of a perfect finishing treatement.

INSTRUCTION BEFORE THE INSTALLATION

Keep the packaging upright and in dry environmental, clean and protect.

Open the packaging only at the moment of the installation, ensure that in the rooms the temperature will be at least of 15°C and the relative moisture will be between the 40% and the 60% u.r.a. the plan of installation must be: protect from moisture infiltrations and from the condensate formation;

dry, with moisture content that hs not to surpass the 2% in weight for the heating background and the 0,5% for dioxide background.

The moiture control must be done with using a calcium carbide hygrometer bifore the installation.

The background must be solid, compact, rigid, flat and clean, without the formation of superficial dust.

Forthe installation on ceramics surfacese or marble, do an able preparation of them.

Do not install on supports that show residuals of old glues.

INSTRUCTION FOR THE INSTALLATION

Use, if the parquet will be glue down, exclusively adhesive products exempt from water o specific for wood floorings.

Light sounds of amtiness localized in some points of the floor are not symptom of not happend stick of the wood elemts.

During the installation mix wood elemts taken from several packagings.

Apply the glue directly in the work surface with an adeguate toothed slice, don’t glue on the sides and clean immediatley eventual residuals or smears of glue with appropiate products.

Leave an open perimeter suitable space, to dimension in fuction of the dimension of the rooom.

In the case of floating installation moreover the perimeter space put the joints of dilation in function of the parquet laid areas. It’s advisable to apply the joints next to the division of each room.

The installation of a heating/making cold background, as for in environoment not air out enough, could induce to slits or swellings of wood elements.

Pay attention to the calibration of the system since that the temperature of the installation surface mustn’t surpass the 27°C. Our floors are perfectly adequate to be apply on systems heating/making cold backgrounds, they can be laid nebuosly completely glue or floatig.

It’s recommend the use of wood spieces like Maple, Beech, Siberian Larch without knots and acacia since that they tend to easily cracks.

After the installation and until the delivery of the floor it’s necessary to guarantee the climatic conditions of 18 – 22°C and relative air moisture between the 40% and 60% u.r.a.

Eventual stonalizzations created by the presence of rugs or other objects tend to disappear when the floor will be expose to light.

(INSTALLATION CRITERION AND EVALUATION OF THE WOOD FLOORING MUST DO REFERENCE TO THE “MANUAL FOR THE INSTALLATION OF WOOD FLOORING FOR CIVIL USE (EDILLEGNO/FEDERLEGNO) 3° EDITION MARCH 2004.)

INFORMATION ON THE CARACHTERISTICS OF WOOD SPIECES

INFORMATION ON THE CARACHTERISTICS OF WOOD SPIECES

Since that the wood is a natural material, several chromatics differences and of fibrous that makes all the elements different between them. Each wood species show different characteristics regarding the hardness, light refraction, shrinkage, nerve and bsorption of the substance of the superficial finishing (lacquering, oil, wax etc.), so all the floors, even with preserving the general characteristic of base, are making its history and are not in reference to others.

The sampling or the photo reproduction are to be intended as indicative and not binding. Moreover at the time of supply the floor could be even glaringly different from the one of the sampling since, once expose to the light, the wood generally tends to get darker and uniform.

At light contact, in Doussiè some chromatics differences could be accentuate even in an hard way between the singles elements originally equal.

At the time of installation, Teak show natural tones variegated that, at light contact tends to disappear.

- the wood species, predominantly Iroko, Doussiè, Merbau, Panga Panga, Wengè, could contain mineral concretion with colour from white to yellow.

In the Oak and Beech wood, some elements could show lighter streaks call as “mirrors”.

In some wood species normally use they have an hardness such to guarantee the required performance, nevertheless the floor can dent/ruined cause knocks or object falls, for the application of concentrated weight on small surfaces like stiletto heels, work stairs etc, and small object like nails or pebbles under the soles, the eventual lacquering of the surface executes a protection action, but doesn’t prevent what was above mentioned.

Different settings condition, could bring to chromatic and aesthetics variations which are considerable as allowed. Differences could be caused from different absorption even in the same wood species.

MAINTENANCE INSTRUCTION

The floor received a protective superficial treatment that if well care, will keep its characteristics for a long time preserving the wood from usury and dirt. It’s a good thing to remove the dust with suitable dust cloth (electrostatics) with broom and vacuum.

LACQUERING AND OILED WITH NATURAL OIL UV SURFACES

For cleaning use a damp cloth with detergent product not aggressive, don’t use product in base of alcohol, ammoniac or solvents that can damage the lacquering or the oiling (UV)

For surface with lacquered finishing: after leave at rest the floor, use a normal broom or vacuum. The floor seldom could be wash with a damp cloth very well wringed. In this case you can add to the washing water a specific product for parquet.

For surfaces with oiled finishing: the usual wash it will be done with suitable soap adequate to this kind of surface. It will be added to water for a light floor wash.

Cause the de-grease action on the boards it forms a light protective film. For the use of this product the treatment instruction quote on the labels must be observed.

CLEARANCE MODALITY:

Once dismissed or not used anymore the product mustn’t spread in the environment but send to the local public clearance systems, or in conformity to the devices in force.

Warnings: the present product sheet complies at the disposals of the law on April 10th 1991 n° 126 “laws for the uniform of the consumer” and at the decree law on February 8th 1997 n° 101 “Rule of accomplishment of the law April 10th 1991 n° 126”, which has been published on the Gazzetta Ufficile n° 91 on April 19th 1997.