What is IN-PARKETT?

IN-PARKETT stands for :

The highest quality and top designed floorings like:
Premier Australian timbers: Spotted Gum, Blackbutt, Sydney Blue Gum, Alpine Ash and Cypress (all commodity stocks.)
Exotic Grasses:Indonesian grass ,i.e. Coconut (commodity stocks).
Chinese grass ,i.e. Bamboo (natural and coffee in colour) vertical and horizontal design and as an End-Grain, as the new Zebra (all commodity stocks).

Why Australian timber?

Experiences by Ulrich Monstadt

As I saw Australian timbers for the first time I asked myself :

Why rambling in the distance if the good is so near?

Answer: There's something better in the distance!

For me as a master carpenter was the quality of the timber with its technical qualities and its most pleasing unique appearance.
Considering that there are about 800 different kinds of Eucalyptus, you can imagine the possibilities of usage there are without endangering Australia 's rainforests. A country being larger than Europe but occupied by only 20 million inhabitants gives nature enough space for free development.

The fascination of Bamboo

Experiences by Ulrich Monstadt

I've acquired the "virus" Bamboo in 1993.

I had the first contact with an up to then unknown material in 1993 as I was shown a parquet I didn't know and asked about my opinion about it. I had a look at the material. My first impression : Visually attractive, but what is it? I resigned after several attempts to identify the material and asked about its name. "Bamboo", was the answer. "Nice", said I, "but I'm a carpenter and not into parquet. What am I supposed to do with it?" "You are open to all new things. Please tell me what you think about it." I told my counterpart that I'm attracted by its design but also that I couldn't tell him anything about the technical facts because the material is totally unknown in Europe as a parquet. During the conversation my interest in this material increased.

How do you get a hit on Coconut?

Experiences by Ulrich Monstadt

One time I had to fly to Australia all in a sudden and was just able to get a flight with a stop in Kualalumpur (Malaysia). All other flights were booked up.Thus I had to accept a overall travel time of about 40 hours.
With this route I arrived in Kualalumpur at 6.00 o'clock in the morning and had to wait for the connecting flight at 22.00 o'clock in the evening. What are you supposed to do a whole day on your own in Malaysia? You hire a driver and have a look at the city.
I had luck and hired an Indian running a private business with his own car as a taxi. We agreed that he showed me Kualalumpur and brought me back to the airport in the evening. The whole affair cost me 120,00DM - ex post a really cheap price. After leaving the airport we went to his car where we were awaited - to my astonishment - by his wife. She traveled with his husband the whole day. I'll never forget this day. You can't imagine how kind and friendly these people are if you haven't been in this part of the world before.

What's happening to Bamboo?

A fascinating material approaches the crossroad.

Flop or Top?

Like in many parts of our society of consumption the price is more important than the quality. It's the same with Bamboo parquet. But who believes that cheap means propitious doesn't count the producers of Bamboo parquet in because decreasing prices damage the quality. So the winners aren't the consumers but the experts. They are recently forced to write an increasing amount of certificates about Bamboo parquet. Unfortunately, they are not always able to realize the cause for the damaged floor because there are always new constructions, not necessarily being better. To gain more understanding for producers and merchants who are not involved in this price-fight, I decided to write this article.