Category Conseils parquet

Chevron, herringbone, wide planks: what is genuinely period, what is not, and the constraints of a century-old floor on joists.

When oak is too yellow or too expected. Three pale species, what they are worth in hardness, and what light does to them.

A tread is not a floor: it carries the load on its nosing and needs a specific part. What that changes in thickness, fitting and budget.

Three levels of damage, three different repairs. What can be sorted in ten minutes, and when the board really has to come out.

Doable, provided you know the three passes, the belt-sander trap and the real curing time before the furniture goes back.

The ranges by installation method and pattern, what makes a quote explode, and the items fitters charge on top.

Three products sold in the same aisle that have nothing in common. What each really is, what it costs, and what it becomes in ten years.

These are not finishes but surface treatments. What each changes to the touch, to upkeep, and to the way the floor ages.

What the building's rules can impose, what acoustic regulation says, and how to lay a floor without falling out with the neighbour below.

The expansion gap must stay free: that is the whole logic of perimeter details. Which skirting, which threshold, and the classic mistakes.