Hand-made sanding parquet

High-quality wood parquet is a very reliable coating. But even with the most careful and careful care, the surface becomes uneven over time and visible defects appear on it. Observing correctly the technology of installation, the owners of apartments and houses have every chance to carry out polishing with their own hands.

The laying of the parquet itself is only the first step for obtaining high-quality floor covering. To get the desired effect, you need to make a certain number of activities, for example, level the surface, polish and varnish. The same actions are done when restoring old parquet.

Do-it-yourself polishing of parquet involves the elimination of defects on the floor covering, contributing to its destruction. For this reason, the floor of wood from time to time to restore.

This repair helps:

• remove small flaws;
• free the floor from the old layer of varnish;

• to eliminate a creak of the loosened slats;
• smooth the height differences between the slats of the parquet.

When laying a new coating should initially clean the surface. After sanding, the coating becomes smooth and less damaged.

Self-polishing of the parquet may not help in some situations when:

• the material has cracked and the gaps between the steel strips have become several millimeters;
• floor covering swelled with moisture;

• the main part of the floor is damaged by insects;
• surface of the floor with large dents and holes.

As a rule, such defects appear in those cases if the laying of parquet boards and their operation were incorrect.

Restoration of the parquet flooring consists in repairing the restoration of the old wooden flooring. The main task in the repair of parquet is to eliminate the flaws and improve the appearance of the floor. You can repair and upgrade the surface yourself.

Consider the most common defects, the appearance of which requires the grinding of floors.

• Slits The main factor in the formation of cracks is the loosening of parquet boards. Removing the cracks is a difficult task due to their occurrence throughout the coverage area. Small gaps can be sealed with putty. When visible slits form in the middle of the planks, and the surface is scratched, then cosmetic repair is not enough. In the case when the parquet is not detached from the base, then it is necessary to restore the floor covering.

Otherwise, later the parquet will have to be removed and laid again. Restoration takes place in the following stages: scraping, grinding, filling and patching of irregularities, grinding of the floor, finishing.

• Creak. One of the possible reasons for the emergence of floor scratches may be strips that are not connected to each other, which make a sound when walking. Also the flooring creaks when the parquet is peeling off the base. Another common cause of squeaky floor may be the absence of a seam between the parquet and the wall. To get rid of this unpleasant sound, a part of the parquet is cut to ensure a gap.

• Swollen slats. Such problems in the room sometimes appear.The cause of the swollen coating may be in violation of the installation technology, when when flooring forget to leave gaps from each wall. If the parquet has risen due to contact with water, the damaged planks are first pulled out and the surface is dried. Then slightly increase the air temperature in the room. When the surface is completely dry, clean up the holes that appear with a vacuum cleaner. After that, install new slats, grind and varnish or oil.

• Scratches. Typically, scratches on such surfaces are formed from shoes with a sharp heel and rearrangement of furniture. When the parquet is made of hard wood and with a reliable protective coating, it is more resistant to mechanical damage.

To care for parquet flooring, you can buy a special oil. First, remove the dust from the floor, hold a wet cleaning, followed by oil applied. Do not apply a thick layer of oil so that the floor does not stick. Initially, such a coating will quickly get dirty, but after a while it will become easier to care for the floor.

To restore the parquet with your own hands, you must carefully observe the installation technology.The design of this flooring makes it possible not only to remove local defects, but also to carry out a complete restoration.

The process of updating the parquet is in the preparatory stage, deep or coarse grinding, fine processing, filling of flaws and final grinding. We will study the stages in more detail.

• Preparatory stage. After laying the parquet, it is important to carefully inspect and identify any damage, such as scratches and dents. These defects can be eliminated with a putty or special glue. Grinding old wood coatings is a more laborious task, because every detail needs to be checked for integrity. The spoiled material is replaced. When the works are finished, the coating is vacuumed and wiped.

• Rough grinding. Initially adjustable downforce of the drum. Make these manipulations with the use of screws and balancing wheels. After completion of the work it is recommended to use a grinder to walk through inaccessible places.

• Fine grinding. For these works need a flat grinder. It eliminates the surface from defects.
• Putty. The defects of the restored coating are restored with the help of colored putty.with imitation under the "tree". If you buy a special putty liquid, you can make the mixture yourself. After applying this mass, the floor should dry for at least 24 hours.

• Final grinding. To remove excess putty, the surface is ground with a surface grinding machine, filled with emery paper. They do this only when the putty completely hardens.

For polishing your own parquet you need special tools and additional consumables:

• Parquet grinding machine. The grinder is a rather expensive tool, in specialized stores it can be rented;
• Angle grinder. Most often, this tool is called grinder. The grinder is used for different jobs, including polishing it with wood cover. To remove the old layer of lacquer, you must use a petal nozzle. This tool is convenient to polish the parquet, but when using the grinder there is a lot of dust and sawdust.

• Hand cycle. It is useful for scrubbing parquet in hard-to-reach places. An iron plate is attached to the handle of the instrument. She removed the previous layer of varnish, but it is a difficult job;
• Emery cloth. Cut out the length and width of the shoe, attached to the sole and thus rubbed the floor. This process is also not easy, but quite feasible;
• Sandpaper. For parquet, you will need paper from 60 to 120 grit;

• Putty for sealing slits. It must be chosen in accordance with the color that is appropriate in shade to the wood;
• Varnish or high quality oil;
• Gel. It is a white mass that helps fill small irregularities. Gel is a decorative device and is not an additional layer to ensure durability or moisture resistance;

• Glue. In case some wooden boards fail or become loose, it is possible to use special parquet glue. In the place where the boards sag make holes, then fill these holes with a syringe;
• Revitalizing paste. It is put with the pallet, has dense structure. You can find a large color palette on sale, so it will be easy to find the right shade. Drying the paste takes less than a day. After applying the paste, the desired areas are ground and varnished;
• Rollers and brushes to cover the surface with varnish or oil;

• Spatulas for applying putty;
• A vacuum cleaner and other consumables: a screwdriver, scissors.

Epoxy, which itself is colorless, needs tinting. Sometimes, to hide the seams of epoxy resin, it is advised to add a dye. Resin, unlike epoxy glue, is more elastic, it is also possible to add it to different hardeners to obtain the desired composition.

The process of preparing the surface for grinding is recommended to start with the removal of furniture, removing the baseboard and removing the old coating from the door sills. Next you need to examine the floor to see the main disadvantages. The floors in the apartment must be cleaned from dust and dirt, remove nails and screws. Grinding - dusty work, so it is desirable to hang windows and doors.

To properly polish the floors with your own hands, you need to follow the step by step instructions. Simple manipulations with the use of a sander make it possible to partially remove flaws from a covered parquet. Work on the removal of paint and varnish begin with the treatment of identified defects of the floor.

To scratch a parquet - means to make actions on updating of an old covering of a floor.Produced in several stages, which consist in removing the old layer of wood surface. The final stage is fine polishing, which will help to get a smooth canvas for subsequent coating with varnish or wax.

To work using a specific tool and material.

Scraping the floor with your hands begins with the initial grinding. Her task is to remove the surface layer - varnish and irregularities. Most often this is done with sandpaper with grit from 40 to 80. If the parquet is too old and very worn out, then you need to do these activities twice.

Then cover up the flaws with putty or mass prepared from a mixture of white glue and wood dust. Before starting the scoring, pay attention to the joints of the slats, visible gaps need to be sealed. In addition, after the work cycle there are irregularities, it is important to level them with a fine polishing. After the putty has dried, the parquet is scrubbed with sandpaper with grit from 150 to 240 to obtain a flat surface.

Scraping flooring is usually carried out by the following methods:

• Pile of the real. Peel the surface layer using a loop;
• Pile semi-automatic.When grinding occurs with certain hand-held materials;

• Pile semi-professional. Renovate parquet professional grinder.

Self scraping takes quite a few hours. For this useful cycle or blade. The blades should be 0.1-0.2 cm wider than the bar to prevent the appearance of new flaws and not to spoil the joints.

The top layer is cycling from window to door. It is advisable to moisten the parquet first, the moistened wood is more quickly treated. It is important to loop along several slats at once About the baseboards is better to walk grinder.

When the entire coverage is ottsiklevano, you should cover up the visible flaws. Then grind fine sandpaper to get a perfectly smooth floor.

Instruments remove the damaged coating layer precisely at an angle of 45 or 90 degrees. The machine is applied to the parquet only by turning it on beforehand; the pressure for scraping over the entire surface is the same.

It is not recommended to stop the tool at one site during the ticking, as there may appear a cavity, which is not easy to fix.

Grinding is different from the scraping is different in that when grinding the damaged layer is not cut off, and is scratched using abrasive material.Grinding machines became more common than the manual cycle, so this process was called parquet grinding.

Putty is a versatile material in the form of a paste that is applied to the surface before it is applied to varnish or oil. It levels the floors and masks the surface flaws.

Often the question arises about the correctness of the pronunciation of the word - putty or putty. Both pronunciations are believed to be correct.

The putty consists of fillers, binders and coloring pigments. Putties are divided into cement, plaster and polymer.

How to fill gaps in the floor depends on a variety of indicators, for example, on the type of wood, the size of the holes and the choice of material for the final coating. It is recommended to purchase a putty and a finishing agent from the same manufacturer.

Before you begin to putty flooring, you need to remove dust. After that, putty is applied around the entire perimeter of the floor.

For applying putty, you can use special stainless spatulas, as well as rubber and wooden spatulas. Putty put a thin layer.If it turns out that one layer is not enough, then after it dries, it is worth applying another layer. How much putty will be spent depends on the condition of the parquet.

Quite often, in order to save the budget, there is spackling of parquet from self-made solutions. Such a solution allows you to make the necessary composition for a particular situation.

The final stage is the careful grinding and polishing of the parquet. When the putty mixture completely hardens, then use a fine abrasive to eliminate the disadvantages. Next, the floors are vacuumed and coated with varnish or oil.

It is necessary to choose polishing, relying on the initial condition of parquet boards. Polishing agents by the type of surface is divided into matte, semi-gloss and glossy. According to the type of application, manual and machine polishing is distinguished.

One of the good tools to give the parquet gloss and beauty, is considered mastic. It consists of wax and polymers. After drawing the protective layer appears. Mastic is colorless, as well as with a touch. Colorless gives a semi beautiful shine, color - a certain shade.According to its composition, the mastic is divided into water-soluble, water-emulsion, wax and turpentine.

• The water emulsion is suitable for all types of parquet. It is applied to a clean floor and after a while I begin to rub the parquet with a rag or brush;
• Water soluble is great for oak flooring. Apply it with a brush, after drying with a soft sponge, remove the residual part of the product and leave the floor to dry. Next cover another layer. After the parquet dries, it should be polished;

• Wax is optimal for products from ash and pine. This mastic is applied with a special brush on the previously cleaned from dust floor;
• Turpentine mastic is used for coating of beech and birch. As part of this mastic there is no water. It is recommended to be applied in two layers.

Too often, it is not recommended to rub parquet, otherwise a slippery coating may be formed. All mastics can be purchased in specialized stores, and it is also possible to make them at home by yourself.

Parquet coating with varnish is a great option to keep the duration of use of the parquet floor.In this way, the rubbed surface is restored and the tree pattern is preserved. In addition, varnishing strengthens and protects the surface.

Applying varnish with your own hands is a responsible process. Initially, you need to check that all the necessary tools are available.

Before you begin to varnish the surface, it is important to mix the jar with varnish well. The varnish is applied in two layers. Begin the process of applying material from window to door. Two hours later, apply a second layer across the previous one. It is important to leave a small passage from the room, due to the fact that the varnish dries from several days to a week.

Parquet lacquers are of several types: waterborne, alkyd, polyurethane and urethane-alkyd. The most durable are polyurethane varnishes. And the safest - water.

Urethane-alkyd and alkyd paints are more economical and resistant, but toxic and with a pungent odor.

If the parquet has already been varnished, then it is better to completely remove the varnish from it. If it has only become duller, then its surface is sufficiently sanded and coated with polyurethane varnish.

Nowadays, floor whitening has become popular.

The toning composition is coated with several layers to achieve the desired shade.Pre-prepare the surface, grinding and removing dust.

About skirtings also do not forget. In this case, they need to change the color, like the whole parquet.

Whitening is carried out with the use of varnish or oil.

Often people are faced with the question of the possibility to paint such a coating. This can be done, because the parquet is a canvas of wood, and it is very high quality.

Usually painting consists in applying a stain to the floor to highlight the texture of the material and several varnish coatings. So the tree keeps the picture that looks very beautiful. Sometimes there are cases that the parquet should match the color scheme of the interior, and it is necessary to remove the past covering and install a new one, or to transform it with paint.

Consequently, the color of the paint can be absolutely any, depending on the wishes and design of the room.

How to grind a parquet with your own hands, see the next video.