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The company Quick-Step is deservedly one of the major representatives on the market floor laminate flooring. Buyers are offered a wide range of textures, colors and types of laminate. Coating on floors from Quick-Step is, on average, more expensive products from other brands. But that’s the price not only for the famous brand and good quality of product. Belonging to the brand Quick-Step guarantees that the flooring will last a long time, not cause problems during installation and operation. The manufacturer guarantees at least a quarter of a century of service.
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Belgian laminate flooring manufacturer Quick-Step at the stage of issue has passed all the necessary testing and is in compliance with the highest European standards. Waste and rejects are utilized in the place is recycled for reuse or incinerated, and the energy from this channelled into production.
The company Quick-Step – author of the tool joint, making the installation of laminate flooring is quick, simple and convenient. This mounting system allows for the necessary repairs to remove the damaged fragment of flooring, not disassembling the entire floor and replace it.
In the lower layer of the laminate floor from Quick-Step is present in the polyurethane, making the tiles almost completely moisture-proof. And at the heart of laminate Board lies especially strong and dense HDF own production, composed of wood fiber mixed with melamine resin. The laminate is then pressed at very high temperatures, which gives it high strength.
Laminate flooring by Quick-Step in texture and appearance as close as possible to the natural wood. The coating has a high resistance to chips and dents that can occur from furniture (especially thin, sharp legs) or dropping heavy objects. Due to the antistatic additives such a floor is much less strongly sticks to the dust, lint, hair and pet dander. Durable mount laminate Quick-Step between them allows them to withstand the load on the gap up to 400 kg per meter. Laminate hard to fire it up – does not light up from random small sparks or a fallen cigarette.
All products are Quick-Step compatible with any type of floor warm – water, electric, film. Wood can easily withstand not only high temperature but a good conductor of heat into the room. The only thing that does not like laminate flooring Quick-Step is extreme temperatures. Wood can vary greatly in volume, to crack, or slightly change the color. Heating and cooling of the room is to be gradual, so that the floor material had time to adapt to the changing conditions of use.
All products used in the production of a laminate Quick-Step adhesives and resin including in line with international standards and therefore, safe for health and can be used also in children’s rooms.
Laminate Quick-Step for reviews well washed from any dirt, lock it durable and reliable, and the color range is wide. There is no surface marks and scratches in the process of operation. Families with young active children notice that the floor is practically non-slip and is therefore safe even for children’s rooms.
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Of course, such well-known products produced by the company Quick-Step and has not a small price, seek to forge. If there are doubts about the authenticity or quality of the product purchased, you should ask the store employees documents for the product. The simplest criteria of quality laminate flooring boards must be of the same size, with smooth edges, no major chips or other damage. Should not be places with bad propitavshiesya pattern. And to check the quality of laminate flooring can pogreba his fingernail. Good laminate flooring Quick-Step is absolutely not hurt, but poor quality plates can remain large and noticeable scratches.
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Laminate Quick-Step are grouped into collections, the coverage of a particular class, design and texture has a range of at least several colors and shades.
- Laminate Quick-Step Impressive of the group ( including the Impressive Ultra) has a special hydrophobic coating chamfer HydroSeal, making this floor can be used even in the kitchen without fear of water splashes or accidental liquid spills will permanently ruin it. And in wet cleaning a drop of liquid gets inside the laminate.
- Laminate Quick-Step line of Classic European style and is represented by products of standard sizes. On one Board is 1-3 strips that mimic the glossy parquet. Refers to a relatively low price point.
- Laminate flooring manufacturer Quick-Step Largo presents a series of long and wide planks, creating the feeling of a wooden floor of a country house.
- Country goes well with the interiors in eco-style. The surface is mimics the makeshift floor made of planed boards with deliberately accentuated unevenness and chipped.
- Сериz Quadra is square tiles Quick-Step, drawn up under the stone or tile.
- Elite – matte finish on flooring by Quick-Step with smooth transitions of shades of colors.
- Laminate flooring Noblesse made in the form of small plates according to the type of the parquet floor. They may be placed not only in the ranks as a regular laminate, but the squares in different directions or «Christmas tree».
- Laminate Quick-Step Arte line is barely visible facet, allowing the floor looks very smooth and even.
- Series Exquisa has a pronounced surface texture and design in a variety of intersecting lines.
- In Vogue design uses a variety of texture and color of oak wood.
- Laminate Eligna by Quick-Step has noticeable transitions between colors and pronounced, highlighted by the edge of the panels.
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Quick-Step produces not only itself a laminate floor, but all the necessary related products – skirting, fixing to the nut. For each batch of coatings on floors from Quick-Step is specified what additional accessories the best combination of color, pattern and texture.
Do not have to choose a baseboard color, you can buy white and paint them later.
Baseboards for laminate production Quick-Step are not only straight. Recently, the company began to produce and flexible types suitable for convex or, on the contrary, the concave shape of the room. They perfectly fit together, both among themselves and with the classic smooth plinths.
The size range of skirting boards represented the high and low types. Extra wide types are designed for a climate with significant seasonal differences, where in the installation it is necessary to leave a large space between the laminate and the wall. In the baseboards it is necessary for the grooves to conceal the wires of low-voltage electronics – Internet, landline phone etc.
Between different rooms for dock laminate, which lies on the same level and at different transitional uses profiles of laminated wood is either resistant to scratches and mechanical stress of aluminium. Profiles Quick-Step multifunctional – they can be, for example, used for decorating the laminate stairs as ledges of the steps. And if for some reason the walls are not installed through the floor, to hide the expansion joint will help end profile.
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Like any other laminate coating Quick-Step exacting to smooth the surface of the subfloor – should ensure the minimum possible difference in height (a maximum of a few millimeters per meter). Otherwise, the tool joint will quickly fail.
To minimize the still existing floor irregularities and improve heat and sound insulation on the floor must fit the substrate, generally made of polypropylene.
The ends of the laminate panels must be on one row, but the transverse joints should not be located in only staggered, as when laying bricks.
Between the wall and the first row of laminate panels need the presence of a compensation gap of 5-7 mm in order for the coverage could slightly vary in size with fluctuations in humidity and temperature, while not suciwati.
