Sanding the parquet with his own hands - detailed instruction

Parquet floor eventually have to expose such "operations" as Scratching.Wood is aging partially deformed, and because of this there are gaps, dark spots.All sorts of firms that advertise their services to restore the parquet floors, a work estimate is quite high.Therefore, this work is best done independently, especially since tsiklevat parquet is not so difficult, and you can do the job by hand.

What scraping

1. inspection of the floor surface and determine its "faults";
2. correction of a defect;
3. floor preparation to paint processing;
4. lacquer.

This work can be carried out using a special machine or by hand.The second option is more labor-intensive, but allows you to do all the work himself, without the assistance of specialized organizations.

essence of the work consists in removing the damaged top layer of the parquet with lacquer.With manual sanding use a device called a "cycle."They come in different sizes and shapes of handles.Experts recommend for independent working with parquet use a loop with a width of 5 cm plate. Such tools are sold at any hardware (construction) store.

Technique tsiklevaniya

• all baseboards removed in the room.
• floor surface richly moistened with warm water.
• sharpened cycle begins removal of the damaged layer of wood.This should be done from the center of the room to the walls.First cycle is performed in the forward and then backward.The movement is carried out along the wood fibers.It should be a working tool surface periodically sharpened.This will ensure the removal of a thin and smooth layer of wood, and thus increase the number of possible operations for the period of operation Scratching of parquet.
• small gap shpaklyuyut.
• Grinding floor.For this purpose the "sandpaper" cloth.You can, for example, wrap it a wooden block, pre-fitted to handle it.You can fix the bar on the leg, that will greatly facilitate this work.It is better to make grinding again.
• thorough floor cleaning.It is necessary to sweep away all the wood dust.For reliability - to pass a vacuum cleaner brush.Thereafter, better wash floor, and preferably - at least two times.
• application on parquet lacquer.You have to understand that we should not use its membership in excessive quantities.Otherwise, when the question arises about the next sanding and have to take a thick layer of lacquer and wood.Experts advise after applying and drying the first layer to produce another polishing the floor, and then apply a second layer of varnish.

parquet before and after sanding

Recommendations on self Scratching

must take into account the thickness of the floor boards is different.Depending on this, and it is determined by the number of valid tsiklevok.For example, if the thickness of the strap within 1.5 cm, a floor can not scrape more than 5 times.

If the gap between the parketinami large, it is better to replace them as scraping will not help.

not recommended to be limited to certain parts of scraping, as places will be very different from the rest of the floor.