Thomas Wimmer
The real wood floor is long lasting, extreme care is offered during processing. Wood lives”, says Thomas Wimmer. It changed even if it is installed in a living room as a plank.” Heat or moisture can be solid wood flooring in the worst case, shrink or swell, joints and shafts are the result. To avoid this, the Villa planks are made of Wimmer GmbH with a three layer construction: A five millimeter thick layer of wood resting on two supporting layers which prevent warping of the planks by their transverse veins. The complicated structure however put the company at work for the Interalpen-hotel under considerable time pressure. We had to produce in a record time of four weeks 600 square meters’ floor, Gunther, Wang recalls. Most of it was planks of larch wood, which were fitted, and then brushed, oiled with a light patina and waxed. Ripple may find it difficult to be quoted properly. In addition the Toginger but also a number of floor boards manufactured in grey patinated and brushed oak.
Only relief at the urgent appointment work was that only Villa boards in lengths between three and five meters were needed for the bed and breakfast. This, rather short for their usual conditions Boards, especially difficult application of the sensitive surface went much faster by hand. Tyrolean-style alpine lodge? Overall, 17 of the 64 newly designed rooms received wooden floors during the renovation. Architects Wohlfarth endowed five of them in collaboration with local carpenters, themselves, to become familiar with the material and to use the rooms as a pattern for the other renovations. Of the remaining twelve apartments ten in a Tyrolean style “designed, which stands for continuity. In these rooms, known manuscript of the Interalpen is still noticeable, if also accented and contemporary bordered by finely crafted pine furniture and fresh colors. The subtle, light beige larch floor exactly adapts to these claims and the Alpine facilities.