Floorboards, flooring systems and method 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 method for manufacturing a rectangular floorboard, having long edges and short edges, said long edges being provided with a locking system comprising integrated connectors for locking together said floorboard with a second floorboard,
the method comprising the steps of
linearly displacing relative to each other a floor element, sized and adapted for providing at least two floor panels and a set of tools for machining a first pair of opposing edge portions of the floor element, to provide a final shape of at least part of said short edges of said floorboard,
dividing the floor element into said at least two floor panels, and
linearly displacing, relative to each other, one of said at least two floor panels and a set of tools for machining a second pair of opposing edge portions of said floor panel, to provide at least part of said locking system.
2. The method as claimed in claim 1 , wherein said machining of said first pair of opposing edge portions of the floor element comprises machining at least part of a second locking system provided at said short edges.
3. The method as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the floorboard is laminated and has a printed pattern on a top surface thereof, and a long edge of said floorboard is provided with a length not exceeding 80 cm and a short edge of said floorboard is provided with a length not exceeding 10 cm.
4. The method as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the floorboard is laminated and has a printed pattern on a top surface thereof, and a short edge of said floorboard is provided with a length not exceeding 10 cm.
5. The method as claimed in claim 2 , wherein the floorboard is laminated and has a printed pattern on a top surface thereof, and a short edge of said floorboard is provided with a length not exceeding 10 cm.