Standards Development

Scope

This International Standard specifies the manufacturing characteristics, the shapes, the dimensions, the tolerances, the quality requirements and the inspection methods for quality control and delivery conditions, the measurement and the marking of solid wood paving blocks.

NOTE 1 The classification of raw parquet blocks according to specific characteristics and wood defects, as well as the possible defects, are specified, for the different species of wood, in the relevant International Standards referring to the classification of each wood species or of each group of species. This International Standard specifies the quality requirements of solid wood paving blocks made of hardwood and softwood species.

This International Standard applies to solid wood paving blocks intended for use in indoor and outdoor spaces. NOTE 2 Paving blocks made of Fagus sylvatica wood are intended for use only in indoor spaces

Purpose

This standard is a revision of standards ISO 5326, ISO 5327, ISO 5328 and ISO 5329. It is the merging of those four standards into one in order to simplify the use and the understanding of these standards. End-user will therefore have one standard instead of four and may compare the values for hardwood and softwood species. Furthermore, it will be updated as the standard have not been revised since almost 50 years.