New record laying hardwood flooring set in Holland

In Holland, a new world record has been achieved for the fastest ever time to install parquet hardwood flooring at the Dutch Parquet Championships. The hardwood flooring event made media headlines in Holland, where the competition to lay these real wood floors was broadcasted live on television.



The team of several fitters that set the record managed to lay the wooden floor in a staggering three and a half minutes! The championships were held as part of the parquet wood flooring exhibition, which gave visitors plenty of opportunity to admire the various solid wood floors on display.



When the fitters got ready to lay the floor in a highly organised fashion, it drew a crowd who were ready and waiting to witness a new world record being set before them. The floor was made up of 20 metres and was completely fitted in three minutes and 28.8 seconds.



Wooden parquet floors have risen in popularity recently as it offers people an unusual twist on the traditional solid wood floor. This style of flooring has been laid for many years, and was particularly popular during the Edwardian period, as well as during the thirties.



However, this style of flooring recently suffered a decline in demand throughout the recession just a few years ago. However, this particular style of flooring, along with other wooden floors is starting to become more in-demand again, to the relief of wood flooring manufacturers and retailers.



Parquet flooring is made up of a number of different shades and textures of wood, such as oak, walnut, cherry, lime, pine or maple as well as the richer tones of mahogany wood, and other tropical woods as well as bamboo. These wooden flooring boards are laid either intermittently or in a pattern to create a design on the wood floor. Most often these designs are geometric, or angular.



Its name comes from the French word for parqueterie (which translates as the phrase ‘from parquet’) this style of wooden flooring was originally designed to replace marble floors, which needed to be washed constantly to maintain its beauty. Whereas, wooden floors only need a quick sweep once per week in order to keep them looking at their best. It’s advised by many parquet flooring manufacturers not to use a vacuum on real wood floors as the vacuum can scratch the wooden floor, leaving it looking dated and damaged much sooner than it should.



If you would like to browse a wide range of wooden flooring, in a choice of different shades and textures please visit http://easystepflooring.co.uk/. And if you would like to receive any wood flooring samples, simply enter your details on the site and you will be sent your samples free of charge.



About us: Easy Step Flooring is a privately owned company based in Heathrow specialising in supplying solid wood floors. Due to our vast national and international logistics network, we consider our huge range of wood flooring to be second to none. We supply hardwood wooden floors to the trade and retail business. We strive to work with reputable mills from around the world to ensure that our products come from sustainable sources.



Editor’s note: Easy Step Flooring is represented by Search Engine Marketing agency TRON Media. This Press Release was written by Jo-Anne Keyte. Please direct all press queries to Jo-Anne Keyte email: jo@tronmedia.co.uk or call: 02031670969.