Tree mosaic: nuances of choice and installation

Wooden mosaic is a stylish and durable facing. We tell how to choose it correctly for each room and fix on the surface.

Photo: Dune.

The decorative qualities of the wooden mosaic are truly limitless thanks to a wide range of colors, an original natural pattern and a variety of forms of Tester. Mosaic elements are made from well-known wood beech, oak, cock, walnut, ash, pine, from exotic Iroquo, dossia and wenge, from mango and bamboo stems, and even coconut shells. An even greater attractiveness of the facing of this type is given different schemes of the tester, resembling, patterns of laying of a piece parquet and the use of elements of different thickness, creating not visual, and the real effect of the volume surface. In the Russian market, a wooden mosaic represents many companies, including: Cocomosaic, CP Parquet, Dune, L'Antic Colonial, Pixel, Wood Mosaic. The price of 1 m² of this exotic finish fluctuates from 3 to 20 thousand rubles.

Photo: Parquet.

Wooden tessers protected by modern oil-wax impregnations and varnish are capable of serve on the walls of living rooms, kitchens, bathrooms for years, and decades. Miniature elements allow you to virtuosively bypass corners, decorate all sorts of turns and roundings, decorate the arches, columns, niches. For zones of direct contact with water, it is better to choose a mosaic of teak. Due to the high content of resinous substances, it is the most rack to biological influences and practically does not require the application of protective compositions. It is not by chance that this wood has long been used for cladding baths, saunas and shower.

Photo: Cocomosaic

Also, like other types of mosaic wooden produce a 30 × 30 cm modules assembled in modules to simplify the laying process. (The grid is off the inside of the material and forever remains in the fixing weight.) Before laying it, it is stored indoors with constant humidity and temperature, as well as expensive elements from wood: doors, furniture.

Photo: Parquet.

Keep in mind, it does not use cement tiled adhesives for mounting wooden modules, and parquet - on solvents or dispersion with minimal water content (less than 30%). The seams between the tessers are filled with two-component epoxy grout. Work with it requires a certain skill and accuracy. The processing of the seams is carried out in small sections, immediately removing the excess mixture, and not allowing it to harden.