The final stage of the formation of flooring parquet is varnishing. This method is used for two main reasons: lacquet creation creates a reliable protective layer, warning damage to wood during operation, and increases the external attractiveness of the flooring.

How to cover parquet varnish?

There are two basic application methods:

• manual - economical, but labor-intensive
• mechanical - more expensive and requiring the skill of the use of special equipment - spacing.

How is the surface treatment of parquet?

Parquet varnishing with your own hands is completely under the compliance with the sequence of actions and requirements.

The whole process consists of the following steps:

• Cycling
• Grinding
• Varnishing
• Drying
• Finishing processing.

Important! The amount and scope depends entirely on the state of the parquet. If the floor covering "killed" or has not been restored for a long time, it will necessarily need to quive and varnishing parquet. For a new flooring or without significant defects, it is quite enough polishing with small abrasive with the subsequent creation of a protective layer.

What tools are needed to perform work?

Directly for the varnishing parquet will be required:

• Primer varnish or antiseptic mortar
• Lacquer
• Brushes (thickness 1-5 cm, width - 10 cm)
• Rollers
• Capacity for solution.

To perform clearing works, prepare such tools and materials:

• Cycle
• Spatulas
• Sandpaper (40-250)
• Poppet
• Scissors
• Spray
• Bulgarian or grinding machine.

How to choose a varnish?

This question occupies an important place in the preparation of all materials for decoration of the floor. The durability, strength and appearance of lacquered parquet directly depends on its quality. The current market of paints and varnishes offers a wide range of solutions.

What to pay attention to when choosing?

1. Appearance is a neutral color or a certain shade.
2. The chemical composition of the components is on anhydrous polyurethane based, water-soluble, alkyd, acid-curable, uretal oil, based on formaldehyde resins, primer.
3. Technological parameters - viscosity, fluidity.
4. Type of gloss - glossy, matte, semi-shy, semi-wave, matte-grungy.
5. Permissible level of physical exertion.
6. Warranty period.
7. Reaction to ultraviolet and various chemicals.

Criteria for choosing solution

Specific recommendations for choosing varnish is impossible, since the following parameters are required:

• estimated coating load
• availability of allergies at residents at home
• wood breed
• view of Parpet.
• the microclimate of the room and its stability.

What varnish is better for parquet?

1. Water-soluble is less toxic and excellent for use in the presence of allergies, but do not expect a high indicator of strength from such a coating.
2. Pay attention to alkyd compositions with permissible drops of humidity conditions, temperature and vibratory loads.
3. Preference to polyurethane solutions or acidically curable with a planned regular high load and chemical effects on the coating.

Important! As a basis, use the primer type of solution to give the perfectly smooth shade and reduce the adhesive property of the varnish on the joints of the parquet slats.

Preparatory work

Preliminary work consist in careful surface preparation. Special attention is paid to this stage if you wondered: "How to cover the old parquet?".

Sequencing:

1. Release the entire space of the room from furniture items.
2. Remove the plinth.
3. Perform cycling as needed.
   

   Important! For the cyclove of the parquet, use a manual cisser (in this case, the process will be time consuming and long) or special grinding equipment with emery paper P40 (more costly method, but allows you to perform all work quickly and clean).

4. Collect all the garbage and dust using a vacuum cleaner.
5. Collect the surface.
   

   Important! Use for this work sandpaper smaller abrasiveness (P80-150) or grinding machine, with which they performed the cyclove.

   

6. Sharpen all defects.
7. Collect.
8. Clean the surface from dust and garbage.
9. Place the plinth.

Video

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Conditions of the lacquering process

• Clean surface without dust, pile or other types of pollution
• Moderate air humidity in the range of 50-70%
• Lack of drafts
• Fresh air access for drying process
• Moderate air temperature 15-20s.

How to lacine parquet?

Technology

1. Apply an antiseptic solution or primer varnish.
2. Observe the direction of the smears "along the fibers".
3. View video according to the technology of applying primer and main varnish.
4. Wait for drying.
   

   Important! The drying time of this species is usually short-term - from 15 minutes to 3 hours, depends on the manufacturer and composition. To find out the exact duration - read the manufacturer's instructions. The antiseptic solution dries over 24 hours.

5. Take a new roller or brush.
6. Apply the first layer of the main varnish as follows:
   • movement in form u when using a brush
   • movement in a cross if the main paint tool is a roller (1 band - applying a solution, 2 - its leveling).
     

     Important! When performing work with a brush every new band, make up with a small adhesive to the previous one. When using a roller, each cross movement is performed in one, irretrievable direction. For the full overlap of the first lacquer strip, lift the roller and apply another transverse with a shift of the width by 3/4.

7. Move from the end opposite door.
8. Excuse a period of 24-48 hours until the surface drying.
   

   Important! If the work is performed by one-component composition, then keep the brush in the container with varnish in the intervals. When using two-component - be sure to rinse the pile of brush with a solvent after each use to eliminate drying. When working with a roller, after the break it must be rolled out.

9. Collect the surface with sandpaper shallow grain grain (150-250).
10. Perform circular movements with an abrasive side.
    

    Important! When covering parquet, lacquer with your own hands pay attention to the presence of villi, it is they form a roughness on the surface.

11. Clean the surface with a vacuum cleaner and wet (not wet!) Rag.
12. Apply the second layer of varnish on a technique similar to the first.
13. Wait for complete drying.
    

    Important! If the planned number of lacquer layers of more than 2, perform grinding immediately before the last.

14. All subsequent layers also apply after complete drying of the previous one.
15. Like 2-3 days after the end of all works before operation.
16. Install furniture in 2 weeks.

Video

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Problems when covering parquet varnish

Even with the apparent observance of technology, all the processes of floor finishing, there are several types of problems:

• Long lacquer drying without casual
• White raids
• Education of bubbles inside
• Furgent or detachment.

Causes of defects

1. Failure to comply with the technology of applying a solution, for example, a layer is too thick.
2. Poorly purified tool.
3. Failure to comply with temperature mode.
4. Increased or reduced humidity.
5. The inconsistency of the components of the solution and wood, the basics of varnish and solvent, varnish and hardener, two types of compositions (using different for each subsequent layer).
6. Direct sunlight hit.
7. The varnish itself is too cold.
8. Neackurability.
9. The poorly selected tool for applying varnish.

Methods for elimination of defects

1. Remit the main reason.
2. Correct if it relates to the proportion of components or microclimate indoors.
3. Wait for complete drying.
4. Collect the surface before creating a new layer.

Caring for lacquered parquet

Paradised parquet floor requires mandatory observance of the rules of surface care. Only in this case the duration of its operation will be really long and the attractive type of surface will continue for a long time.

Primary requirements:

• Adjust the temperature in the room, do not allow its decrease less than 15 degrees.
• Control the humidity in the room in the range of 50-70%.
• Do not use a wet cloth for cleaning, you can only slightly wet.
• Use for cleansing dust on the surface of special care products for lacquered parquet.
• Do not walk on the heel parquet and in street shoes.
• Avoid hitting the surface of the sand - its grains create scratches.
• Wrap the legs of severe massive furniture with mild felt.

Conclusion

The entire varnishing process is quite painstaking, but, subject to the rules of technology in the process of processing and proper care of the finished flooring, the parquet floor will delight with its attractiveness of up to 15 years.