Preparations before starting the installation

To ensure that you will not run out of material whilst laying, please remember to make adequate provision for offcuts.

For different products or installation patterns you have to calculate differenent offcuts. For the number please have a look in our booklet “installing instruction” which you may download from our Infothek.

Please calculate thoroughly, so that you do not risk to get short of your needed material. A reproduction of your material will require a certain time at our site.

The room should first be measured to determine the laying directions that will minimise offcuts. It is advisable in principle to lay the elements in the room longitudinally and, in square rooms, to lay aligned with the main source of light (terrace window etc.).

Clever selection of the direction of laying may, however, also be used to accentuate the dimensions of the room. Use wood types with lighter colours to increase the apparent size of smaller rooms.

The substrate must remain dry, firm, load-bearing and even. The surface must be free of dust.

More information about pertinent national standards and guidelines, technical notes and the standard rules as well as to the different types of substrate (mineral substrate, wooden substrate or previous coverings) can be seen in our guideline “installing instruction”, which you can download.

The screed must have the correct residual moisture before starting to install a wooden flooring. The permissible residual moisture of a calcium suflate and calcium sulphate self levelling screed without underfloor heating should not exceed 0.5 CM-% (with underfloor heating system 0.3 CM-%). If you have cement screeds the value is 2.0 CM-% (without underfloor heating) or 1.8 CM-% (with underfloor heating)

If permanent moisture is likely (e.g. screed with CM value > 1.8 mm and especially in new buildings), a functional vapour barrier must be in place before laying.

Our Adler parquet is delivered in high-grade packaging to ensure optimal protection. The edges and sides are protected by cardboard and shrink wrap will largely exclude soiling and provide short-term moisture protection when in transport and storage. The wrapping will not provide long-term protection from moisture, however, and dry storage remains a requirement. Our “Chateau by adler” floorboards are packaged in specially manufactured wooden transportation boxes.

Before laying your Adler parquet, the delivered packages must be stored in the same ambient conditions in the rooms where it will be laid for at least 48 hours, to allow the material to acclimatise. The temperature of the substrate should range between minimum 16°C and maximum 25°C, the ambient temperature between 18°C and 27°C. The relative room humidity should stay between 40% and 65%.

Wallpapering and painting as well as freshly plastered adjacent rooms and draughts at high ambient humidity will upset acclimatisation and should be completed before laying starts. Rooms with less than 20 – 30% humidity are also unsuitable.

Since production will remain subject to human error, occasional errors are always possible or defects may be overlooked even after passing our quality control steps. Damage may also occur in transport. Please therefore, before laying, check the elements for visible material and transport damages in daylight. Should you detect any defects, also during laying, further installation should be stopped immediately to arrange for inspection and exchange of the product, as necessary.

Claims will not be accepted at a later stage.