The floor is the most exploited element of the interior, as a result of which after a while the parquet loses its attractive appearance. To increase the service life of the parquet floor, special care products should be used, but sometimes this is not enough. You can, of course, lay a new parquet, but it will take a lot of time and will cause significant financial costs. The best option for updating the parquet floor is repair.
With this question you can turn to professionals, but you can repair the parquet and with your own hands. Restoration is required in the event of potholes and scratches, drying and loosening of the strips, wear of the floor. Serious repair of parquet requires after the bay.
Scratches and potholes
The reasons for the appearance of potholes and scratches on the parquet floor a lot - dragged heavy furniture or dropped something heavy. This is a minor damage and in this case it is not difficult to repair the parquet with your own hands. It is enough to seal up scratches and potholes with putty under the color of the floor, lightly sand off these areas and cover with a thin layer of varnish. If the damage is insignificant, they can be removed with a corrective pencil.
When repairing piece parquet damaged boards should be replaced - warm up the mastic, apply a 1.5-millimeter layer and fix the bar.
Repair of old wooden parquet
The most common reason for apartment owners to repair a parquet floor is wear. To repair the old parquet with their own hands, you need to make more efforts. Before proceeding directly to the restoration of the parquet, you should prepare the surface - to repair the potholes, to fix the loosened boards or replace them.
To fix boards that are shaking and creaking, you can use a nail, drowning his hat in the wood. Defective straps should be replaced using joinery glue.
Repair of the board parquet has its own peculiarity - it is a multi-layer construction, therefore it is not possible to replace the whole bar, but only a part of the top layer. With a sharp knife, you need to cut a section of a parquet board and fix a new one with glue.
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After the defects are eliminated, the floor must be cycled (removal of the worn lacquer layer). This is done with the help of a special sewing machine, which you can buy at any construction shop. Wipe the old varnish with a coarse-grained nazhdachkoy, and polish the floor - fine-grained. When repairing oak parquet, you may need additional measures to clarify the surface.
After the cycle, proceed to varnishing. First, the floor needs to be thoroughly vacuumed, since the dust can move with the varnish. The varnish should be applied in several layers with a foam roller.