Wood is a natural material that is not made from it. In this article, we will try to understand one more, perhaps not new, technology for using wood. We will lay floors from wooden saw cuts.
The saw cut floor is made from natural materials that do not have any consequences for human health. Since the material is local, it can be very cheap. The floor made of saw cuts is more durable than expected from it, when installing such a floor, an excellent aesthetic appearance is obtained, the floor itself is pleasant to the touch. Easy to install so much that you can easily do it yourself, without a specialist.
Flaws.
The most important disadvantage of such floors is the high consumption of materials (wood). And the second is a complex operation (once every two years it is necessary to do maintenance).
Stages of laying the floor from saw cuts
The material from which they decided to make the floor is pieces of logs 10-12 cm thick (the diameter of the logs depends on the imagination and desire of the customer). In addition to wooden logs, you will need limestone, sawdust, clay, linseed oil, beeswax, and water. It is very important that the wood be dried, no moisture during work.
The very process of arranging such a floor is very simple and is somewhat similar to laying paving slabs or paving stones. The surface on which they decided to lay the floor must be very well compacted, then pour 6-10 cm of river pebbles onto the compacted surface. Then we put the saw cut and lightly tap the saw cut with a rubber hammer, checking the evenness of the laying of the saw cuts with a level so that they do not stick out from above and do not go too deep. The distance from the surface of the cut to the river sand (base) should be 4-7 cm, that is, the cut should go into the base prepared by us by 2-3 cm, the distance between the cuts should be from 1 to 2 centimeters.
We fill in the seams.
We take 1 liter of linseed oil (or pork fat), add 1 kg of lime, 5 kg of sawdust and 2 kg of clay with water. All this is thoroughly mixed until a paste-like mass is formed. If you want the floor to be waterproof, you can add marble dust. We rub the resulting mixture (rub it well) so that there are no air pockets left. This is very important because cracks may appear in the future and it will be possible for water to flow between the cuts. With the same mixture, you can wipe the cracks in the saw cut itself (if any). This volume of the mixture is enough for laying five square meters of flooring. Closed all the seams and left the floor to dry for two days. After complete drying, we polish the floor for another day or two. You can do this with a scraping machine, then you will generally get the perfect effect. After checking again? whether a crack appeared somewhere. If it appeared, cover it with a mixture and let it dry, then manually polish this place.