Floors

Dimensional stability

A low proportion of homogeneous wood and glued components means that Masonite Beams’ I-joists have a high level of dimensional stability. The products are characterised by minimal warp and low shrinkage resulting in a very straight product. 

The benefits of using I-joists, compared with traditional wooden floor structures, are numerous:

• Even floors and walls – reduced snagging and complaints
• No visible gaps or cracks in the floor – satisfied customers
• Less shrinkage provides reduces movement year on year – providing a quieter floor system
• Simple installations with 38% higher efficiency

Easy installations

Our I-joists enable simple installations thanks to their lightweight yet robust properties.

With our versatile webs, you can save time and money as your heating and electrical engineers can work more efficiently with shorter wiring runs and pipe bends. At the same time, functionally adapted beams and tried and tested structures offer total building efficiency with less material waste. Calculations based on Wikells Sektionsdata show that a traditional solid floors can require around 38% more labor time compared to a floor structure built with Masonite Beams lightweight joists.

Floors with strict acoustic requirements

Apartment blocks and buildings with compartment floor structures need to meet high acoustic standards to reduce noise transfer between dwellings, e.g. in terms of impact sound and airborne sound. Masonite Beams has been working with research and development of acoustic solutions for floor structures for more than 30 years and still leads the way in this area. We offer solutions with I-joists in which tests show that our beams, despite their relatively simple design, achieve very good acoustic properties.

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