Insole Court in South Wales and the fine parquetry with inlay border. Craftsmanship of the 19th century.

The Insole Court is a Llandlaff, South Wales located mansion who belonged to James Harvey Insole, a colliery proprietor. It's a mansion whose building started at the middle of 19th century and went through a series of rebuilding and redecoration phases afterwards.

What interests us is the parquetry flooring installed in the house in the 19th century which, in the dining room, features a splendid parquet border.

I have found two detail images on Mark's photo stream at Flickr:

Wide parquet border inlay - detail, Insole Court.

  

Parquet flooring with border, Insole Court - detail

Solid System Hardwood Floor Borders

The image attached shows a sectioned hardwood floor border (our Grill pattern in this case). It is a standard 10 mm thickness product that can be installed in glue down parquetry works.

For the case where different thicknesses are needed there are the following two solutions available:
1. Inferior thickness - under 10 mm thicknesses can be manufactured - like 8 mm (5/16 inch) for example;
2. Superior thicknesses - something like 19 mm (3/4 inch) or 21 - 22 mm - for this case a plywood is attached underneath the border to compensate to the overall thickness of the surrounding floor;

Solid System Hardwood Floor Border