Frequently Asked Questions

The floor is built into the structure of the building. It will therefore be used to support a floor-ing as the floor. A floor is a floor covering which must be surmounted by a noble wood siding of a minimum of 2.5 mm. Below this thickness, we can not use the term “parquet”.

The parquet floor is composed of a single type of wood laminated unlike that matters 2 or 3 layers called “creases”. The first “layer” comes from a noble wood species, others are manu-cated with derivatives of wood. The laminate is not a parquet. Rather, it laminate floor. It mimics the parquet floor with wooden decorations: a printed decoration is placed on a medium structure then it is applied that protects the melamine decor. Which gives a plasticized appearance to the whole.

Yes, but it will always be best to lay tiles in a bathroom! However, if for esthetic reasons tick and decorations you want wood floors, Wood et Bois offers you various species adapted to higher humidity such as teak, which will accommodate a more humid atmosphere. Other wood species exist, to see in our showrooms.

A new parquet floor and left the factory has been treated so that you will not find splinters. However, with time and wear, it will end up producing futures splinters, especially in the case of an aged parquet. For a child’s room, it should be a suitable floor.

There is no “green flooring” itself. However, there are labels that can guarantee that the wood comes from sustainably managed forests. « Emois et Bois » directs all its collections to certified flooring wishing to participate in the preservation of natural resources. The company therefore has PEFC certification (pro gram of Forest Certification). It is therefore possible to reconstruct the journey of a parquet, from production to distribution. « Emois et Bois » also tries to choose surface treatments that respect the environment, with natural oils.

The chamfer or barley grain, avoids differences to prevent any hanging for example related to processing errors. This will avoid to sand the floor again. The chamfer provides a livelier appearance to wood and more significantly delimits the blades.

« Emois et Bois » and lists on its website a large number of wood species. A parquet can be manufactured in a variety of tree species known to date. There are two families: hardwoods (timber of countries, such as beech, maple, oak …) and softwoods such as pine or larch. In the choice of a wood, attention must be paid to its origin as this will determine its quality. The woods are also classified according to different criteria (including impact resistance).

The price difference can be explained by several factors:

Parquet flooring is durable, you can ask to your tastes and your decorating choice!

The deformation of the parquet is inherent in the wood itself. There are wooden floors build-ing techniques that avoid the maximum deformation. We can reduce but not completely pre-vent deformation. Note however: a parquet 2 folds glued down is the most stable, especially on soils refrigerants.

The pictures shown on the site or « Emois et Bois » chips tend to represent as closely as possible the colors of the floor. Be aware that the floor once laid, undergoes oxidation of its surface by the air and alteration due to light, are the main factors of discolored wooden floors!

Specific devices are used to measure the moisture level of support before installing the floor. Namely, the standard humidity for a screed is 2% (0.5% for anhydrite screeds). The support must also fulfill three conditions: be level, dry and healthy.

Patching removes the roughness of a surface. If you or your artisan notice any defects, patch-ing is necessary before laying the floor in good conditions.

A parquet can be placed on all surfaces (tiles, concrete slabs, slabs cement chipboard) on con-dition that they be flat, dry and healthy. The traditional parquet rests on joists.

The prosecution may well suit a floor heating, provided it does not exceed 28 ° (comply-ing to the Ministerial Decree of 23 June 1978, amended on November 30, 2005: facilities fixed for heating and hot water supply of residential buildings, offices open to the public) .The parquet should also have a low thermal resistance. There will necessarily be a heat loss. Choosing a thin dense wood is more appropriate because it will lower thermal resistance. In addition, current regulations stipulated not to exceed 14mm thick for solid parquet. The maximum permissible width is 90 mm with the exception of oak up to 130 mm.

With its know-how Emois et Bois uses and advocates for years cork insulation boards. They have demonstrated to all our customers efficiency. Our experience has led us to conclude that the flooring glued to an insulating underlay, provide in most cases a satisfactory sound insula-tion without causing a noise not bad at home. Namely that more you choose a thin wooden floor, the better the insulation pho lunch.

First of all it is “floating installation” or “pose pasted”. The difference lies in how to fix the wooden floor. The parquet said “floating” is not fixed to the ground. The blades are held to-gether by one of clicks or glue system. The glued down requires in turn that the parquet floor should be adhered to the paste, the blade will then be independent of each other.

Unless you are very experienced in this field, laying your parquet glued will be made by a craftsman poseur! This will use a special glue bi-component or mono to ensure perfect adhe-sion of materials. At your request at Emois and Wood, we systematically propose the necessary materials for laying your floor: glue, spatula glue, cork board for insulation, finishing and maintenance products. Emois and Wood also offers a glue containing fewer VOCs (Volatile Organic Compounds).

« Emois et Bois » advises against laying a floating floor on underfloor heating in accordance with DTU 51.11. Indeed, our experience has led us to conclude that the risk of deformation of the blades are more important on this soil type and performance of heating diminished. An insulator is necessarily placed between the support and the floor: Emois et Bois offers you systematically cork, which has proved its worth. It is imperative to provide an expansion joint on the outskirts of parquet parts. This seal can be hidden by baseboards made by « Emois et Bois ». Another expansion joint should be provided at a door.

Laying parquet or other flooring comes at the very end of a project. The large works, plasters, fittings and coatings must be completed and humidity should not exceed 5%, in accordance with DTU 51.1. The premises must be enclosed, covered and placed windows. The tightness of plumbing and heating systems should be checked. Finally, we must be sure that there is no risk of further rewetting of the premises. It is advisable to provide a final response of the painter after installation.

Always plan a little wooden flooring (about 8-10%) than actual surface to be covered. Before asking a parquet, several parameters are checked: the moisture content of the concrete cover, the humidity of your room (which must be between 40 and 65%) in accordance with DTU 51.1. It will also estimate what capacity sound insulation you need. The ground on which you will ask your floor must be flat, dry and healthy. If necessary, it will practice a leveling ground for a clearer and straight eras possible. Once you have placed flooring, specific cleaning prod-ucts to clean your floor will be advised.

The time of installation depends on the surface to be covered and the type of installation cho-sen. Installing the floor can only be effective if the moisture content of materials such as con-crete slabs does not exceed 2.5% (0.5% if anhydrite screed), in accordance with DTU 51.3. Once you have placed flooring, you can immediately re-move or wait until the next day.

To facilitate attachment and provide flexibility to wood, the glue must be spread over a dry, sound, dry, clean and continuously. A glue-down installation duly respects the NF P63-202 which refers to the DTU 51.2. Under no circumstances should you put glue on the groove and the floor of the tongue. The glue should be well spread on the support.

A threshold bar or a hollow treated joint will be necessary to delineate your floor the tiled surface. If desired, « Emois et Boisand » offers you a manufacture customized baseboards and threshold contact for your floor bar.

Should preferably be aligned with a door in a drawing axis is perpendicular or parallel to the frame, depending on the direction of installation chosen. This technique avoids, in the case of a start along a wall with a false squareness, ending up with the blades angled in the middle of the room. Always maintain a distance of 5 to 10 mm along the wall. This expansion joint allows the blades to move without causing distortion of the floor. This space will then be hidden by baseboards. It is advisable to ask his floorboards parallel to the direction of traffic while taking account of the light, and the arrangement of furniture, except for narrow corridors or rooms where we will favor a look in entering the room.

Some customers of « Emois et Bois » tested the “built” from the ground and the rendering is very attractive! This kind of installation is however subject to strict rules. We must first ask themselves a key question: for what use? what quality do I want? what size of the device? Installation must carefully follow the installation instructions and follow the electrical instal-lation standard NF C 15-100.

The clipped floating floors will be easier to ask. For glued or nailed laying, must be much more seasoned. The experience of a partner « Emois et Bois » craftsman is always recommended in order to avoid any inconvenience or difficulties that could appear as and measuring the progress of construction.

The parquet must always be installed in compliance with certain rules. The moisture content of the screed, your support, your piece of wood which is your floor are always checked prior to installation. It will then ensure that the humidity remains between 40 and 65% and take steps to maintain that such humidity (eg leaving a little heating). This precaution applies not only to the floor: in general, your furniture will do better! Then, following the floor you choose, its specificities and the room in which it will be asked, maintaining that you will give him will be different. The « Emois et Bois » advisors recommend you which products to use, how, in what frequency etc.

The prosecution may well be placed on the wall. The installation must comply with the same conditions as for the parquet floor (limit humidity, maintenance etc.). Beware though, the glued down is excluded! It will necessarily take a break nailed or clipped.

A « Emois and Bois » advisor always recommends you to take at least 8-10% more flooring to avoid this kind of situation. This minimum is to revise upwards when it comes to laying more techniques such as Hungary or point of Herringbone. However, if it happens again you can control the parquet surface that you lack.

The choice will be based on criteria of installation, quality and prices:

The choice will be based on criteria of installation, quality and prices:

The wood must be protected by an applied finish, either in factory or on site, once the parquet laid. Each finish has its peculiarities and its aesthetic appearance.

The floor is painted in the factory or on site with a product that will let appear all rough edges of the wood. On a varnished parquet floor, the downside will come from renovation. It will be difficult to restore a portion of your varnished parquet because the result will not be homoge-neous. « Emois et Bois » has extensive experience of oiled parquet. This finish emphasizes the appearance of wood by penetrating deep into all its rough edges. The oiled parquet will be easier to maintain. It will be repaired locally without having to sand all of its floors. Oiled fin-ishes allow to obtain new and varied aspects.

Varnished parquet has a shiny, satin or matt depending on the type you choose. The tones are warm and natural and give a classic and contemporary style to your floor. The oiled parquet will have a matte or satin finish and put the raw wood value for a contemporary style, more current. The waxed floor gives a patina quite natural wood for a more traditional style.

For an antique effect, an authentic finish (aged or scraped) will be recommended. It is then quite possible to ask oiled, varnished or waxed according to the look you want to create.

« Emois et Bois » and has been specialized for fifteen years in an oiled finish that leaves a nat-ural appearance to the floor while revealing the beautiful wood grain. Moreover, penetrating the wood, oil saturates the pores and hardens to make the floor more resistant to tasks. You can locally repair any damage or accident incurred without grind your entire parquet.

First tip: you do not wash with water a floor. The cleaning power of a varnished parquet (vit-rified) is using a broom or vacuum cleaner. Traces or tasks fresh can be removed with a damp mop. An oiled parquet maintained regularly will not have to be re-oiled. Routine cleaning is also done using a vacuum cleaner or broom. If necessary, the cleaning can be done with a mop and water with 1 / 40th special soap maintenance parquet oiled. The « Emois et Bois » coun-sellors will advise you the right products; including an ecological and efficient maintenance of soap, biodegradable, harmless, non-polluting and from vegetable matter. Applied regularly, it will nourish and protect your floor from the aggressions of time. For more information, please feel free to contact us.

Cleaning the floor is easy contrary to conventional wisdom. Bleach is not the most suitable product, this may dull the floor or darker. If your floor has become dirty due to a lack of maintenance, clean it thoroughly with intensive cleaner. Rinse with clean water using a mop wrung. Apply a thin layer of maintenance oil and polish. Wait 24 hours, then apply soap maintenance. All these products are available at Emois et bois.

The air oxydation and the action of light are two factors causing a change in color of a par-quet. Even posed, wood is not inert. He lives and reacts to its environment. Thus, the color of your floor may, depending on gasoline, to change more or less strongly with time. Note that some exotic species such as jatoba, iroko etc. easily change color.

It is quite possible to walk with shoes on the floor. However, care must be taken in the case of varnished parquet which is more sensitive to shocks and scratches. In the case of a renovation, then you have refinished the room.

If you are unable to cover your tracks or tasks using a wet mop, you can remove them using gum for chewing gum, mineral spirits for tar, denatured alcohol for ink and lipstick. We advise you to make a test on a small area.

If you feel your oiled wooden floor is sticky, it is because it is saturated with oil. The oil layer you just move has not been sufficiently wiped the floor and could not absorb everything. To remedy this problem, apply an oil diluent to the single brush to remove excess. We advise you to contact « Emois et Bois » advisors in this case.

Avoid using cleaning agents containing waxing agents. Also note that oiled floor is less slippery than the varnished parquet.

You can completely repaint your floor. There are however some prerequisites to respect namely cleaning and smoothing your surface. If the floor is oiled or varnished, sanding is re-quired. Beware though: most often, the use of a paint mask the wood structure.

A nailed parquet (not glued) in good condition is always droppable, reusable and very likely to be sold second hand. Your Support necessarily requires cleaning as dust will accumulate. The status of your support also depends on the implementation of the parquet: glued to a wooden floor, removing most often cause breakage of the blades during lifting the support. For a floating floor, only the floor enjoying an assembly per click can be reused. In the case of wood flooring nailed to joists, care must be taken when removing preserve assemblies that are maintained by nails.

You can sand locally and apply the same patent, however there is a risk that the result will not be homogeneous. A partial uniform fitting of a patent is often impossible to achieve! For best results, a vitrified flooring will be locally reponced and fully vitrified. Emois et Bois advises you when there is direct access to the floor from the outside, the establishment of a doormat to avoid scratches from abrasive elements such as sand, gravel, etc. If the mat is embedded in the floor, it will fit the decor.

Wooden model, baseboards, door rails, stair nosing, vanity, stair, any coordinated finish par-quet … Emois et Bois also manufactures custom-made! It’s in our woodshop Sevres a highly qualified team makes your fittings in wood.

Steps, risers and common hand hidden radiator, wall trellis, garden, bench, library … « Emois et Bois » performs all its manufacturing solid wood for the interior and exterior.

If desired, « Emois et Bois » is able to offer partner artisans, selected for their skills and pro-fessionalism they have shown. When ordering, our advisors will guide you in choosing a floor-ing specialist.

Unsure the about parquet shade? Want to see if your choice matches your interior design? By calling customer service, and Emois et Bois can lend you a panel (bail) or provide a sample: serviceclient@emoisetbois.com or at 01 46 23 60 36 Monday to Friday from 9:30 am to 13h and 14h to 6:30 p.m. ET on Saturday from 10h to 13h and 14h to 18h30.

It is possible to consult on www.emoisetbois.com all our ranges and the ability to call a coun-selor for more information. The goods will be delivered to you at your home once you place your order and installation performed by a qualified contractor throughout France.

« Emois et Bois » and also specializes in exterior coatings. We have the pleasure to present the woods most suitable for this type of space: grating blades Ipe, Jatoba, Massaranduba, Grapia, thermo treated wood, composite blades …