If you plan to make a coating on the terrace, place a bridge over the pond or a stream, the tracks in the garden, then we present to your attention a composite terrace board. This coating that is well suited for internal and external finishing works. It includes wood flour (about three quarters of volume) and plastic (polypropylene). As additives in it, pigments, UV stabilizers and a number of other components can also be included.
Composite terraced board
This material is also called a liquid tree or wood-polymer composite (DPK). Its scope is quite wide. These are balconies, terraces, swimming pools, tracks, patio, playgrounds, roofing poults, and much more.
Our most common we have wooden coatings (pool, terrace) and wood, stone or tile (staircase, garden tracks). It is believed that the use of plastic is not so environmentally friendly as the use of natural stone or pure wood. But let's pay attention to the number of solid polymers around us. These are dental brushes, and dishes, and household appliances. And this is not the entire list, in the form of what plastic is found with which we contact every day.
Composite terraced board has the following advantages over wood:
- resistance to water and ultraviolet radiation;
- resistance to the effects of biological factors (bacteria, fungus, insects, rodents);
- resistance to the effects of mechanical factors;
-stability to the effects of detergents;
- the incompetence of deformation;
- resistance to temperature differences from -60 to +80 degrees (the highest quality models);
- Durability (serves more than ten years, and some manufacturers approve and more - fifty years).
Advantages of composite terrace board
The advantages of the composite terrace board relative to the stone are:
- simple and convenient installation and disassembly;
- additional elements (support beams or lags, border clips, etc.);
- non-slip surface, which is perfect for the design of the paths in the country or in the garden. It is pleasant to the touch and convenient for walking barefoot.
Today, the Russian market for building materials can be found a composite terrace board as domestic production and the production of Germany, Belgium, Finland, Canada, China and a number of other countries. The price per square meter on average ranges from 1500 to 3,300 rubles.
FEATURES OF INSTALLATION OF A composite terrace board
Design of composite boards - hollow profile. Both sides can serve as the front side, they are usually one color and differ only by riflation.
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Installation of a terrace board
Boards are stacked on support beams. They can be purchased with the board or use wooden lags. Composite supporting beams are installed on a flat and solid base with good drainage.
Composite terrace board is fixed to the supporting beams in the following way:
1. Fix the outer edge of the first board with self-draws at an angle of 45 grams;
2. Install special clamps on the inside of the board (usually sold along with the board), the next board is introduced under the edge of the clamp; with the help of self-tapping screws, which are twisted at an angle of 45 degrees;
3. The outer edge of the last boards is secure self-drawing.
You can also use lateral overhead strips, consolidating them with self-draws. They are additional elements and carry more decorative role, giving coatings a finished look.
Caring for composite terrace board is very simple. In order to remove conventional contaminants, a brush will be brushed, hot water and soap. Loda can, if necessary, melt calcium chloride, and then rinse the surface with water.