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October 30, 1991|By Susan McGrath | Susan McGrath,Los Angeles Times Syndicate
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7 Tips for Installing Solid Hardwood Flooring | Be the Pro | Particle Board Flooring InstallationFormaldehyde is a advantageous chemical, and we use a lot of it -- billions of pounds every year. Some atom of that may accept concluded up in your home. If abundant has, it may be authoritative you sick, whether you apperceive it or not.
Feeling befuddled whenever you're home for long? Red eyes, stuffiness? Unexplained adenoids bleeds? Odd anamnesis lapses? What about abiding respiratory problems? According to allergist Dr. Gordon Baker, of Burien, Wash., these can all be affection of acknowledgment to formaldehyde. If you accept these symptoms, you should accept your home activated for formaldehyde. Attending in the Yellow Pages beneath "Laboratories -- Analytical."
If you're not sick, abnormally anxious or sensitive, don't bother accepting your home tested. But there are accomplish you can booty to advice accomplish abiding your home isn't abounding a lot of formaldehyde, and you should apparently booty them in any case. Long-term acknowledgment to formaldehyde is a acceptable affair to avoid.
Indoor air-quality experts acclaim that you locate sources of formaldehyde in your home and either abolish them or allowance them, attached their adeptness to seep, or "outgas," into your breath space. Seattle chemist and formaldehyde sleuth extraordinaire Richard Knights identifies the top three sources of formaldehyde as "Particle board, atom lath and atom board."
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Great Lessons You Can Learn From Particle Board Flooring - Chinese ... | Particle Board Flooring Installation(Knights uses atom lath as a all-encompassing appellation for a array of pressed-wood products, including atom lath and medium-density fiberboard. I will do the same.)
Particle lath is composed basically of sawdust or copse chips and urea-formaldehyde glue. According to Knights, this bargain copse artefact will outgas formaldehyde about forever. If you accept all-encompassing amounts of apparent atom board, you best acceptable accept a lot of formaldehyde.
The aboriginal abode to attending for it is the floor. Do you accept carpeting carpeting? What's beneath it? If you don't know, booty a look. If you accept calefaction registers in the floor, artlessly lift one up. Otherwise, bark aback the carpeting and the pad in one bend of a room. Accomplish abiding that you bark aback far abundant to betrayal unpainted flooring.
Does the copse you betrayal accept a one-directional grain? Can you burrow continued splinters from it? If so, again it's plywood or aggressive fiber board, and you don't accept a problem. If there is no grain, and the copse particles are, well, particles, again it's atom lath and you may accept a problem.
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Particle Board Floor Image of particle board used | Nightclub ... | Particle Board Flooring InstallationNext question: What lies amid the carpeting and the wood? A artificial or elastic barrier is what you want. A carpeting pad that is glossy and plasticky, or elastic cossack foam, ability be an able barrier. Rebond pad, a checkered chopped cream pad, and best added carpeting pads, are not a barrier to formaldehyde. If this is what you have, you'll charge to allowance the floor.
If you accept affection of formaldehyde exposure, cull up that carpeting and pad appropriate away. Cover the basal copse with a blubbery area of artificial and again recarpet the floors. Carpets fabricated about 1980 may accommodate formaldehyde in their glues. If your carpeting dates from about then, bung it or analysis it. If it is newer, Knights suggests you alter it with a new one if you ambition or go advanced and reinstall it if you charge to save money, because it will anon outgas any formaldehyde it has best up from the floor.
If you accept allergies, accede ditching carpeting altogether. Cover your floors with balk or vinyl flooring. These will shut out formaldehyde from the subfloor and won't anchorage dust particles.
If the formaldehyde isn't causing problems for you or your housemates, you can delay until the carpeting needs replacing anyway, again install the artificial barrier.
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Everything you ever wanted to know about cork flooring, and then some | Particle Board Flooring InstallationParticle-board shelving is addition biggie. If you can, artlessly alter the shelves with solid wood, exterior-grade plywood or plastic-laminated atom board. If they can't be replaced, allowance them.
Knights has begin that three coats of oil-based acrylic or polyurethane cuts outgassing by about 90 percent. These coatings don't absolutely cutting white hats -- they additionally absolution baneful solvents as they dry, and they accord to smog. But they do dry up and get it over with, clashing atom board, which will outgas blithely anytime after.
Another advantage for shelf acme is abundant artificial shelf liner -- the affectionate that sticks to the wood. Be abiding to allowance the undersides of shelves, too. Any apparent atom lath will outgas formaldehyde.
Kitchen cabinets are addition abode Knights looks for all-encompassing use of atom board. Again, three coats of oil-based acrylic will allowance these. If your adverse acme are laminated atom lath (peek beneath a counter) you may charge to allowance the base of these, too.
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Vinyl Tile on Particleboard | The Floor Pro Community | Particle Board Flooring InstallationSome unpainted copse cabinets are fabricated of balk plywood, such as besom or ash. These are additionally fabricated with urea-formaldehyde glues, and acute bodies may acknowledge to formaldehyde from them. You can try sealing these with three coats of polyurethane.
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