Than to cover a wooden floor?

Today many owners of apartments or houses strive to make environmentally friendly and warm floors from natural wood. However, over time, the radiant wooden floors lose not only their external appeal, but they can also be physically destroyed under the influence of various factors.

Therefore, in order to extend the life of wooden floors, they must be treated with a special compound that will reliably protect the wood from destruction. And you need to choose only those tools that are allowed to conduct internal work. Let's find out what can be covered with a wooden floor.

The better to cover the wooden floors?

Before applying a protective layer, the wooden floor surface must be prepared. To do this, it must be thoroughly cleaned of oils, grease and other substances that reduce absorbency. To protect the floor, you can use several types of cover.

1. Varnish is applied to the wooden floor in 2-3 layers. After that the varnish should dry up within 1-2 weeks. The varnish surface of the floor suggests that you can walk on it only in soft shoes without heels. Otherwise, the varnish can be quickly scratched.
2. Oil coating, most often made from natural wood or linseed oil, unlike varnish, is well absorbed into the wood. Therefore, it is excellent for wooden floors in the living room , hallway or in the kitchen.
3. Another natural coating for the wooden floor - wax, made from beeswax. This coating favorably emphasizes the texture of the wood and gives it a more intense shade. A waxing of a wooden floor with wax is done every 1-2 years.
4. Today, wooden floors are covered with paint relatively rarely. Before painting, the floor must be opened with linseed oil or covered with a primer. Allow it to dry for 3 days. Then you can paint in two layers. The first should dry for about a week, only after that you can paint the second time and also dry the floor well.

In a house or apartment there are rooms where ordinary wooden floors are very short-lived. For example, in a bathroom in connection with high humidity the tree can very quickly rot and the floors have to be remade. Therefore, before coating the rough wood floor with any paint or varnish, it is necessary to lay on top of it any coating that is not afraid of moisture. It can be a ceramic tile , a moisture-resistant linoleum or a laminate.

Well, from the old wooden floor, before you cover it with any of the listed tools, you must carefully remove the remains of the old paint.