Restoration and exploitation of natural features parquet

Wooden flooring - prestigious, practical, but unfortunately is relatively expensive finishing material. Therefore, every person whose home is decorated with good make coating is interested in to maximize its life. Today we will tell you how to do it right.

From the article, you'll learn:

• What are the problems faced by the owners of parquet floors, and what are the ways to solve them.
• How to perform a repair of parquet with his own hands.
• How to exploit the parquet flooring.
• How to properly care for the flooring, the floor is served for as long as possible.

First, consider the methods of dealing with faults coatings which do not require a comprehensive restoration of the parquet.

Removing scratches and minor defects

Small dents, chips and scratches occurring on the surface of the flooring, taken addressed through cosmetic means intended to care for parquet. The most popular of these is a hard wax, which is also called putty-melt. After hardening agent demonstrates strength comparable to the strength of wood, wherein it is suitable for the restoration surfaces coated as a varnish, and oil compositions.

The solid wax is applied to the respective color scratched surface in molten form.

aparket (User FORUMHOUSE):

Putty-melt is applied by means voskoplavitelya (gas or electric). After the application of the excess must be removed properly sharpened chisel or a trowel. If required to do the finish grinding.

Also sealing of scratches can be produced using a wax pencil. And in fact, and in another case, the surface should be restored polish with a soft cloth.

Fighting with a scratch

Creaking - a sure parquet companion, who with performance declined over time. By the occurrence of squeaking can cause a variety of reasons:

• parquet fissuring due to the low level of humidity in the room;
• physical damage to the parquet (scrapped pazogrebnevyh compounds split separate plates, etc...);
• peeling from the base plates parquet;
• displacement of the base relative to the parquet floor lag.

If the floor is not just a creak and flex much under your feet is likely to be damaged or broken mounting lags hardwood base. In this situation, do not avoid complex repair that will touch and rough, and the finished floor (and not only the parquet). If, however, the emergence of a squeak is not associated with serious injury, and if the parquet could not peel off from the base, it makes sense to try to correct the problem in one of the following methods.

bedding talc

If the flooring creaks, so it dies between already formed a small gap. If serious damage is not present, an ordinary talc, spilled between the dies parquet, will permanently get rid of the unpleasant sound.

fishermen59 (FORUMHOUSE User):

If creaking parquet itself can fill in the joints of talc and walk across the floor to talc was in connection locks. Then, remove excess talc.

Pouring polyurethane glue

When parquet "plays", creaks and shows other signs of delamination, can be remedied by pumping between the dies and the base of the polyurethane composition for bonding wood.

Armed with a drill and a drill bit (2 mm), medical syringe, adhesive and masking tape can get to work:

• On damaged areas of the parquet paste the masking tape (it will prevent the spreading of the adhesive and will not let him go up to the surface through cracks in the floor).
• Done in the drill floor sloping somewhat apertures (the distance between adjacent holes - about 15 cm). Note: Only drill should parquet (the base should remain whole).
•  In the space between the dies and the base is filled in the adhesive composition.
•  After one hour, remove the tape, but traces of glue, surface protrusions, remove cleaner designed for washing the adhesive used.

Walk on the parquet to complete solidification of glue can not. After the adhesive sets, and its surplus will be removed, the treated area should flatten the load to the ground. After complete solidification of the adhesive all openings can be repaired wax marker suitable color.

Kammer (User FORUMHOUSE):

Try Drill diagonally thin drill. Then fill a syringe with an adhesive mass. The opening can be repaired whale wax (if choose dark brown tint, a hole will resemble a natural mote). Just a couple of points: the adhesive must choose either a liquid or one that can be diluted primer. After infusion of glue needed something heavy crush lyuftyaschie dies.

Feeding screws parquet

There are times when the creaking springs are also cracks in the floor, the spaces between the base flooring and joists and the joists themselves. And if the full-scale repair of floors is planned to be carried out only in the distant future, to remove temporary measures you can take the unpleasant sound.

Kammer:

If squeaks everything to solve this problem very difficult. In such cases, a temporary measure taken: you can try to draw the parquet to the slab. Take perforator drill long by 8 mm dowel-plug (8 * 60 mm) and a universal screw (5 * 150 mm). Drill through (close to Lagoi, but you can through it).

Thereafter, the floor covering is attracted to the plate with screws and cap screws are hidden from view by means markers wax.

Eliminating squeaking with wax or paraffin

If squeaking occurs by friction on the flooring base, instead adhesive can be pumped under the flooring wax. About this technology, we have learned from the experience of our users.

strekoza (User FORUMHOUSE):

My mother drives the syringe in place squeak liquid paraffin. Parquet is in my mother's apartment for more than 40 years - without a squeak. With him was done in the days of my childhood.

Working with liquid paraffin, given its high temperature will be quite problematic. Therefore, instead it is better to use liquid parquet wax which not only fills the space between the base and the plate, but also partially be absorbed in the wood structure.

Fight with mold

We now describe a more time-consuming procedures.

If the parquet surface sometimes gets wet - it's bad, but not critical. If the water regularly seeps into the sub-floor space, the scale pockets of mold-breaking coating inside and manifested on the surface, will bring the owner a lot of trouble at home.

Fight with mold on the floor - it is a complex and time-consuming task, which consists of several stages:

• Complete disassembly finish and rough sex in the areas of detection of foci of mold.
•  Identifying the reasons for provoking the accumulation of moisture under the flooring, and its elimination.
•  Drying screed (subfloor) and processing all elements of protective compounds.
• Installation of the subfloor and installation of parquet.

Causes accumulation of moisture under the flooring can be very diverse. This may be a fistula in a heating riser, because of which the moisture soaked the whole floor slab or floor screed. Also cause mold can become wet walls (more moisture, which runs down the damp walls under the floor). Whatever it was, but to eliminate the mold will have to come with great responsibility.

Zalina7 (FORUMHOUSE User):

With the mold must fight drastically, and not simply wait until dries. Mold is necessary to erase, then all is well washed, dried, and only then go through. If it is possible - swollen plates must be replaced. Means to combat mold very much. At the very least, use copper sulfate or Domestos / white.

Integrated flooring restoration and sealing visible cracks

If between parquet dies visible cracks appeared, and their front surface is dotted with many small scratches - a facelift does not shake. If the parquet has not lagged behind its foundation, it will need a complex and multi-stage restoration coating. Otherwise, parquet have to be dismantled and re-perestilat.

We consider only the first option, because the removal and re-installation of parquet - this is a topic for another article.

Restoration of parquet flooring is made in several stages:

• Planing.
• Grinding.
• Shpatlevanie and sealing cracks.
• Grinding stopper surface.
• Finishing.

Let us examine them in detail.

parquet planing

The first restoration step: pre-cleaned and dried surface of the parquet flooring of parquet-handled grinding machine intended for grinding and for sanding. The purpose of the operation - removing the top layer of the parquet lacquer. In small areas to carry out this operation it is possible, using SANDERS (usually it is taken for rent).

To perform this operation fits large abrasive (№40). If you can not find the Surface device, it can be used for household belt sanders.

For processing of remote sites can use angle grinders or hand scraping.

Here are a few tips for using the equipment.

lana (User FORUMHOUSE):

Planing parquet can be carried out with 3 types of machines (drum machines, Surface and angle). The first two - clean and polished parquet strips. Parquet sanding in confined spaces is made of parquet corner machine.

For best results, scraping should be carried out in two stages: first lengthwise, then across the room.

parquet grinding

Grinding eliminates all irregularities remaining after the "rough" sanding. Polished parquet in two directions: up and down. Grinding is done in two stages: rough (abrasive №60) and finish (grit №80).

Yurabbb (User FORUMHOUSE):

To remove stale varnish used a diamond grinder, and then made several kinds of grinding abrasive (remove paint residues and traces of diamond grinding, produced a rough grinding and polishing under the application Wax-oil).

Dust, formed during grinding, should not be disposed. It is useful for the preparation of fillings and sealing of joints between parquet dies.

Priming and Shpatlevanie seams

Shpatlevanie eliminates seams and cracks formed in the operation of parquet. Despite the large variety of modern construction market, it is very difficult to choose the filler that is suitable for the color of the existing flooring. Therefore parquet lacquer mixed with sawdust left after grinding, is the most popular composition, which many used for sealing during the restoration of the parquet.

Blackk (User FORUMHOUSE):

Polymer putty hardly stained, and there in the color of flooring is extremely difficult. Therefore, as the putty is better to use wood dust mixed with varnish.

Nail and wood dust are mixed to a consistency that allows the mixture was rubbed into the gap, using an ordinary spatula. When the mixture grab, its excess can be removed with a damp cloth parquet.

Before Shpatlevanie parquet, particular attention should be paid to the preparation of the surface: joints must be completely clean from dust and primed for parquet.

wladislaw (User FORUMHOUSE):

Seams and cracks I used to clean out a thin screwdriver, and an awl, then I produce vacuuming (but not right away: first, the compressor blows all the dust). Blot do not roll, and a rubber spatula (in this case, we obtain uniform impregnation of all the cracks).

Final sanding, priming and processing of lacquer

The final stage of the restoration: parquet surface is polished with fine abrasive (№120), processed primer, after which it is several layers - the topcoat is applied (at least 2 layers) (varnish or oil-wax).

What is the composition selected for finishing? It depends on the functional purpose room and on what surface properties you want to get eventually.

Advantages of parquet lacquer:

• forms a uniform coating of a solid glossy or matte film (desired gloss level can be selected individually);
• coating does not require complicated maintenance and easy to apply to the parquet surface;
• long service life.

lacquer disadvantages:

• We can not produce local (partial) restoration of the coating;
• in its composition varnish contains toxic substances.

The advantages of wax oils:

• natural composition and ecology;
• availability of a wide range of colors;
• the possibility of local repair.

In addition to the oil it emphasizes the natural wood texture and has good water repellency.

Disadvantages wax oils:

• coating wear out quickly and require regular updating;
• covering requires careful care and special facilities for washing;
• finish oil-based should be regularly polished.

Applying oil to the floor may require some skill.

Yurabbb:

The most difficult part - hand-painted oil-wax every parquet slats. But the result (in the pictures - it is not the final) is worth it.

When applying the topcoat should be guided by the recommendations offered by the manufacturer. It is the manufacturer defines the sequence of operations and the number of coats.

Proper use and protection of flooring from premature aging

Repair of flooring - a set of complex and time-consuming procedures. It is therefore much easier to prevent the aging of parquet than to carry out his ambitious restoration. Here are some guidelines that will help permanently preserve attractive appearance of the coating.

To understand how to properly care for your flooring, you need to figure out - what he "does not like" and what factors it should be protected?

Parquet "does not love":

• coarse mechanical action;
• moisture;
• drying.

OVG (User FORUMHOUSE):

Unlike the laminate on the floorboard are scratches, dents, etc. (On themselves personally tested). Yes, here's another: parquet "walks". When it swells humidity, and when dry (when the battery include) diverging seams.

The same can be said of the dance floor. After all, under the same external conditions, these materials behave in a similar way.

The main "risk factors" identified, consider the methods of counteraction.

Protect flooring from furniture, from pets, as well as the owners themselves

A real disaster for the parquet may be movable furniture. Legs, wheels - all the elements that are causing scratches, dents and other damage characteristic.

Save the parquet from the effects of mobile furniture will help felt pads (which are glued to the legs of sofas and cabinets) or transparent silicone-based mats. The photo shows an alternative solution, which is suitable for all types of flooring.

Protect flooring from the claws of pets, as well as the sudden appearance of wet spots on the floor covering is reduced to constant control over their pets. And if it is impossible to organize such control, it is better to give or flooring, or the idea to find yourself a four-legged friend.

Oddly enough, but to protect the flooring landlord should first of himself same. Here are a few simple rules that must be respected master of the house with hardwood floors:

• you can not walk around the house in shoes with heels or soles rough;
• all offer their guests a pereobutsya in soft slippers;
• Handle with sports equipment (e.g., with dumbbells or barbells).

Adherence humidity

Relative humidity in the room with hardwood floors must comply with 45-65%. If the humidity is lower, the parquet dry, but on the surface there are cracks.

High humidity can also cause bloating floorboard.

Maintain an optimal humidity in the room will help thermo mode. This device will show when you need to turn the air conditioner (or, conversely, heating) to reduce the humidity in the room. To achieve the opposite result it is possible, using a humidifier. In addition, the thermo helps maintain optimum temperature in the house (smokers with parquet floors, it has to be equal to 18... 25 ° C).

If the humidity mode will not be met, the filler embedded in the seams between flooring rams, starts fall out due to deformation of the wood. And the creaking of floors, which will begin in the near future, it is the most harmless of what awaits you.

If you only plan to install flooring at home, choose a material that is less susceptible to extremes of humidity (eg, oak parquet).

The basic rules of care for wooden flooring

Care of the parquet limited to its proper and regular cleaning of floors treated with protective compounds.

Luch ok (user FORUMHOUSE):

Cleaning flooring mainly made vacuum cleaner. During the cleaning, use a nozzle with a soft brush, leaving no scratches. Wet cleaning try to make no more frequently than once every two weeks. For washing, use special means (in this case - for varnished floors).

Polishing parquet (1-2 times per year) prevents abrasion of the upper layer and slows its aging. Parquet Floor polish compositions special (and oil soluble). Water-soluble polishes are used for finished floors. This inexpensive formulations, allowing, if properly processed, obtain a sufficiently shining and aesthetic coating. In this case, the compositions based on wax designed for wood flooring with oil-impregnation, have a higher cost, but after applying the coating longer retains its appeal.

Take part in discussions relating to restoration technology parquet flooringYou can visit the appropriate topic on our website. Learn more about the selection and maintenance of natural flooringAs well as the characteristics of modern flooring, visit Forumhouse section, in which the collected practical experience and presented the recommendations of our users. A themed video clip will tell you in detail about special care for outdoor wood surfaces during their operation.

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