Parquet treatment

Parquet, in contrast to linoleum, is a fairly expensive kind of floor finishing. It is for this reason that it is important to treat it carefully and try to look after it properly and in a timely manner, maintaining it in a decent condition. Then the floor will not need to be overhauled for a very long time. In this article you will find useful tips for parquet care, learn about when and how best to make a parquet flooring, which varnish is best for parquet and how much is a quality parquet care product.

Features of parquet exploitation during the year

Parquet is best preserved at a temperature of 15 to 25 degrees and the relative humidity in the room from 40% to 60%. When it is used, the microclimate in the room changes significantly during the year. There are sharp temperature changes. So, in the winter, because of the included heating devices in the room, air-drying, its relative humidity drops to less than 40%. This leads to shrinkage and cracking of the parquet. In summer, with the end of the heating season, the humidity changes in the opposite direction, rising more than 60%. For parquet it is too wet. Due to excessive humidity, the parquet increases in size and this can lead to the raising of the edges of the slats.

In order to avoid such unfavorable operating conditions, coupled with the ensuing consequences, which are manifested due to significant changes in the seasonal microclimate of the premises, we must try to keep the moisture within the permissible limits set by the manufacturer. If in the street - winter, and at home - it's warm and dry, you should try to lower the temperature in the room and install a special device - humidifier.

If you do not get ready to buy this necessary thing, you can put in the room where the parquet is laid, an open water tank. It can be a decorative fountain or an aquarium with fish, or just a basin, or you can hang wet towels on heating batteries and change them as you dry. If the room is too cold and humid, you can simply turn on the heating device or air conditioner. We advise you to monitor the level of humidity in the room. In order to control the relative humidity, a measuring device must be placed in the room - a thermohygrometer.

Parquet care product

In order to protect your precious parquet from abrasion during operation, we advise you to purchase an excellent Polish floor care product. It is diluted in a ratio of 40 ml per liter of water, and applied to the surface of the floor with a thin layer with a damp soft cloth or sponge, or with a special squeegee.

Further polishing is not required, because Polish when dried after 15-20 minutes forms a special protective film of wax on top of the parquet varnish, protecting it from excessive moisture, dust and contaminants. Polish parquet care product is sold in plastic bottles with a volume of 1 and 5 liters. One liter of money costs 500 rubles, and five - 2000, so it is more profitable to buy more. In addition, its consumption, as we see, is very small and one bottle is enough for several years.

It would be a good idea to attach special felt soft heels to furniture and chairs.

They are glued or screwed into the legs of the furniture, which stands in the room in which the floor is made of parquet, and neither permutations nor scratching him are no longer frightening!

Cycling parquet own hands

Parquet coding is the removal of its top layer by means of a special construction tool (cycle).

If you want to batch a small room or a separate room, you can do it with a special hand tool called a cycle, or you can use a special device - a looper. But this device is suitable only for open surfaces, with machine cycling all places close to walls and corners are handled manually.

To mask the various small flaws of the parquet, you can take advantage of a little trick. It is necessary to mix bought in the shop flooring filler and those sawdust that remained after the flooring. Thanks to such a mixture, you will make cracks and flaws in the floor invisible.

The cycle smooths the surface of the parquet floor, removing old varnish and strong dirt. It can be replaced by coarse grinding using sandpaper coarse-grained paper. But after such rough coding or polishing on the floor, there are always noticeable ugly strips. They can be removed by finishing the parquet with fine-grained sandpaper. If the area of ​​the room is quite large, then we advise you to apply different parquet grinders. Why is it considered that the baking of parquet with the help of a sewing machine is a very dusty job. But this is not so, perhaps the old instruments were dusted, but modern ones are equipped with powerful dust collectors.

Along the walls and corners is used a manual belt sanding machine. All these actions for cycling the floor are repeated several times until all remnants of the previous finish are removed from the parquet floor and its surface becomes clean, smooth and smooth - in general, like a new one!

Parquet flooring with own hands

Lacquer for parquet is the most popular, practical and beautiful coating for parquet flooring, which is used after the end of its cycle and final grinding. In residential premises, houses and apartments, the most environmentally friendly means is a water-based lacquer that has practically no odor. Unlike the paint for the parquet, when the whole family is forced to move out of the apartment for the duration of the repair to the dacha, the varnish will allow the relatives to stay in their home even in the midst of the finishing work on the varnishing of the floor.

Before coating the parquet with a special varnish, it is advisable to apply one or two coats of a special floor primer to its pre-ground surface at a certain interval, which creates a special protective film on its surface and helps to save considerably on the varnish during the repair process.

Parquet flooring is done in at least three layers, but sometimes even up to six. It depends on the load on the floor you are counting on. Do not begin to apply a subsequent layer of varnish, without waiting for the drying of the previous one.

In conclusion, we note that as a cycle, as well as polishing, as well as covering the parquet floor with varnish, is performed no more often than once every five or seven years, and even more careful and careful care is even less.

And although the coating of the parquet floor with varnish is a difficult and rather laborious process that requires a careful and careful approach, but with the right attitude, using our advice and the video instruction below, you can quite deal with this matter yourself!