How to patch up cracks and holes in the floor

To create a new floor coverings, first grind it up and align. In addition to repair floorboards, you will get rid of any existing irregularities.

Close up a gap in the tree

Holes from the nails very simply sealed with elastic putty for wood, you will also need a putty knife. If you do not cover for plank floor and wipe it with a special cleaning agent, it is possible apply the sealant of the same color as the boards, put putty layers after each next step grinding.

For large recesses fit the same elastic putty, but the loss of a bitch board, the hole you can close the wooden plug with glue and then cleaned up the puncture site using for this plane. Plugs should be painted the color of the floor or at the end of the surface alignment.

Close up a hole in the boards

The plank type of coverage are often found by the connectors between the boards and the holes on the cracked ends at the end of the board. Get rid of them may be using their tie with nails: close to the end in the edge of the board and further into the beam, should score one nail on each part of the center and at an angle. At the same time from the connectors should not remain a trace.

But to remove the gaps are not so easy between the boards. If they are a small width, then you can apply the sealer, and in the case of wide slits need rails that need to be lubricated with glue and hammer in the gaps. After the glue has dried, it will be necessary or skived edges sanded rack set plugs can be painted.

If there is between the floorboards large number of slots, and a wide, it is best to alternately raise each board. Putting them into place is possible by means of special clamps, as they will press them to each other, and you at this time, will beat them with nails or screw the screws.

Align the wooden floor

Some parts, which have not entirely level ground can be ground by hand, it is the same procedure that was carried out after the application of putty. But in places where the floorboards had depression or any contamination, it is safer to use an industrial sanding machine to ottsiklevat floor of a new one. First grind the floor by means of a tape having abrasive the coarse abrasive, then gradually start to use finer abrasive guiding unit across the floorboards. At the end you need to go through the floorboards with fine linen.

To process the surface are hard to reach, you can rent a scraping unit (with no belt grinder) as Grinding can cover part of the floor, located near baseboards.

We turn to the sealing of monolithic concrete floors

When the kind of coverage vygyadit generally okay, and it is well-drier, for the removal of existing basins can be used rasvor rapid setting. First clean the floor of the protruding portions as well as to clean up the edges formed around the holes and inconsistencies. At the edge of the hole and splits necessary podzalit composition of PVA to provide a better absorption of the solution to the floor.

To create grout take PVA glue and water lubricate the gap and then align the work surface.

Align concrete monolith

Use self-leveling mixture. There is a dry powder, it should be diluted in water or latex emulsion.

You need to remove baseboards and doors. Across the threshold nail rails to the mixture is poured. The prepared solution is used for sealing fissures. Self Leveling Dilute mixture with water and pour it on the floor, level spatula. Let the mixture settling time, and after it has dried (after hours) start to put the doors and skirting boards in place.

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