Floorboards, flooring systems and methods for manufacturing and installation thereof
Floorboards with a format corresponding to a traditional parquet block for laying of mechanically joined floating flooring. Rectangular floorboards include a surface layer and a core with two long sides and two short sides, for making a floating flooring, which floorboards are mechanically lockable and which along their four sides have pairs of opposing connectors for locking similar, adjoining floorboards to each other both vertically and horizontally wherein the long sides have a length not exceeding 80 cm and the short sides have a width not exceeding 10 cm.
1. A flooring, which comprises rectangular floorboards with a surface for providing a patterned floating flooring, said floorboards being provided,
along opposing short edges, with connectors for locking the short edge to another floorboard in both a horizontal direction and a vertical direction,
along opposing long edges, with first and second connectors for locking together one floorboard with a second floorboard,
such that upper edge portions of said floorboard and said second floorboard, in a joined state, together define a vertical plane,
whereby said first connector comprise an upwardly projecting locking element on one long side cooperating with a locking groove on the other long side of the second floorboard for locking together said floorboard and said second floorboard in a horizontal plane, perpendicular to said vertical plane, and
whereby said second connector comprise a tongue and a groove for locking together said floorboard and said second floorboard in a vertical direction, perpendicular to a main plane of said floorboards,
wherein a long edge of said floorboards has a length not exceeding 80 cm and a short edge of said floorboards has a length not exceeding 10 cm.
2. The flooring as claimed in claim 1 , wherein said connectors are adapted for locking together said floorboard and said second floorboard at least by means of inward angling, such that when the long edge of the second floorboard is pressed against an upper part of the long edge of the first floorboard and is then angled down, the locking element can enter the locking groove.
3. The flooring as claimed in claim 2 , wherein said connectors are adapted for releasing said floorboard and said second floorboard by means of upward angling, away from a subfloor.
4. The flooring as claimed in claim 1 , wherein said second floorboard is substantially identical with said floorboard.
5. A rectangular floorboard for providing a patterned floating flooring in accordance with claim 1 .
6. The flooring as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the surface is veneer.
7. The flooring as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the first and second connectors are integrated with the one floorboard.