Floating solid wood parquet flooring installation, any experiences?

Try searching for a) parquet, b) Wuppertal, and c) the profession that grinds grain, you’ll find him there The consultation was good, everything was done by email after we sent him a floor plan. If you come from nearby, he can also install it. Otherwise, you can do it yourself, it’s just a bit more work than laminate. Unfortunately, I can’t tell you anything about underfloor heating and the planks, upstairs we have old school radiators.


On the ground floor, we didn’t want wood on principle but something more robust for wiping, so tiles. These were also laid across the entire area in a single joint, including the kitchen. We had parquet in the kitchen in the old apartment, never again. And for the basement, we wanted something warm to the feet, robust and easy to maintain, so we chose rubber – we were surprised, and in hindsight we would also consider that for the ground floor.

Yes thanks, I must have already been on this provider’s website by chance before, because I remember this location. Thanks also for the additional information!

Nailing supports the natural properties of the wood – gluing hinders them. A nailed floor offers a different experience. The planks are thus able to adapt to natural conditions such as humidity and temperature. They provide viewers with a soothing atmosphere, as one can smell the slight changes (more wood), see them (joint play, slight irregularities), feel them (slight warping), and even hear them (light crackling when walked on) – perfect for the best atmospheric living. No comparison to the almost sterile glued industrial parquet in our last apartment.

And: Perfectly suited for allergy sufferers and people with MCS "Multiple Chemical Sensitivity".

Ok, we didn’t want all that, but thanks. Good that we glued it.

A glued floor offers a different experience.

But neither for the eyes nor for the feet. So why solid planks and gluing?

But neither for the eyes nor for the feet. So why solid planks and clipping?

Yes. A glued parquet is rigid, inflexible, only slightly better than a tile. A floating parquet, on the other hand, yields minimally, which is better for walking, posture, and feet. It is simply more dynamic compared to the "dead" glued parquet. Solid wood planks, however, have no counterforce and therefore quite a bit of movement and cannot be simply installed floating. The clips are basically the replacement for the counterforce and thus reduce the natural swelling and shrinking behavior of the wood; the entire composite as such works, but the joints between the planks themselves remain minimal and stay so. And no glue that fixes the board to the floor and emits its ingredients over time. The only alternative otherwise would have been nailing, but we didn’t want that because of the clear height; we would have missed 4 cm, and the build-up height in the rooms wouldn’t have fit anymore. And why solid planks? Because it’s simply the simplest and most honest thing in the world, just a board. For us, Tyrolean oak. Nothing else, no particleboard and no cheap wood as a middle layer, no glue of questionable provenance that has to hold the individual layers and the entire particleboard together. Basically just the wood and you. Invisibly the corrugated cardboard, very little wood glue, and the stainless steel clips as aids on the screed. Done. cool!

Floating parquet, on the other hand, cushions minimally, which is better for walking, posture, and feet. It is simply more dynamic compared to the "dead" glued parquet.

Ok, and your house breathes too or are you a solid plank floor seller
Rarely have I read such nonsense.

Ok, and your house breathes too or are you a solid plank floor seller? Rarely have I read such nonsense.

Neither nor - with breathing walls you will only hear my laughter. Just tell me where you prefer to walk barefoot - on a cement floor or a forest floor? Why the forest floor - because it has elasticity, the cement floor does not. Evolutionarily, something like that was the norm, but not the cement floor (or glued parquet). I prefer to walk on tiles with shoes and there the modulus of elasticity is rather irrelevant. But not upstairs where I am almost always barefoot or in socks.