Repair of parquet own hands

Parquet flooring, sooner or later, but it will necessarily require repair, as during the operation, dropping or loosening of the dies may occur. In addition, from the temperature drop, the parquet cracked and cracked, large crevices formed between the fragments, and the floor began to creak. All these problems can be solved with some effort.

Repairs of parquet with their own hands can be produced by in the event that the landlord has an idea of ​​how this is done correctly. Faithfully renovated parquet, with appropriate care for it, will still serve for a very long time.

Kinds of repair

In terms of the degree of complexity and scale of the work done, the repair of the parquet floor can be divided into three types:

• This is a routine maintenance, which is planned, after the expiration of the for a certain period of operation. With regular implementation of such preventive measures, it is possible to push the "global" repair to the indefinite term ;

• coating. The average remo nt pr is taken when there are obvious signs of floor flaws - he started creak, faded, dark or light appeared on the surfacespots, individual dies came into motion, etc.

• parquet elements. Capital remodeling nt pr is carried out due to long term of exploitationor in case of sudden total damage, for example, as a result of flooding the room.

Qualitatively mounted parquet floor will last for tens of years, if in three - five years carry out its revision and preventive works, correcting even minor defects as necessary. During the operation on the surface such small damages can be formed, like scratches that need to be cleaned in time - the more scratches, the more muddy the coating becomes.

Small defects do not require major repairs, they can be eliminated locally.

With medium repair, individual parcels or parquet floors are raised for their restoration or complete replacement.

Overhaul involves almost full or absolutely complete replacement of the flooring with a new one. Sometimes old dies are used after cleaning and restoration.

Causes of defects

The following factors can be attributed to the reasons for the appearance of various defects on the floor:

• Long service life of the coating.
• Mechanical damage to the surface when moving furniture and walking shoes with sharp heels or heels.
• Water entering under the base of the parquet, excessive humidity or increased temperature in the room, which promotes deformation and drying of wood.
• It is very harmful to the parquet unnecessarily often carried out wet cleaning, especially with the use of a large amount of water - this leads to the development of putrefactive processes in the wood dies if moisture gets between them and does not have time to dry out.
• The emergence of colonies of mold, fungus, dangerous to wood insects.

Carrying out the next revision of the parquet flooring, it is possible to immediately detect defects of various kinds, but it is better to perform a tapping that indicates the places where the plates have moved away from the base. Perhaps, the will have to to raise some suspiciously sounding parquets when tapping.

Technologies for repair work on the parquet floor

So, it is worth considering in detail the repair and recovery processes in more detail in order to know how to eliminate the problems.

Coating faded

Parquet is usually covered with various protective agents, such as lacquer, oil or wax( or mastics based on them).Such a coating can easily be damaged by mechanical, in particular - abrasive influences, and then the parquet will lose the brightness of color and pattern. This problem can be called as the most common , so the most simple to eliminate.

In order to avoid such a flawed parquet as long as possible, it is necessary to adhere to certain rules of the coating operation. So, you need to have for the whole family home soft-soled shoes, put on the rigid furniture legs soft rubber attachments, which can be purchased at stores selling furniture fittings. In addition, in order to secure the parquet, in the area of ​​the room where a sofa or an armchair with a sliding structure on the wheels is installed, it is best to lay the hard carpet .Regular maintenance of the parquet coating is also in the periodic processing of its mastic.

If the parquet flooring, despite the steps taken by the , is still fading, or a large number of scratches have appeared on the , the floor can be cleaned with grinding and the subsequent application of a protective and decorative layer.

During the , the is removed from the old varnished coating and at the same time the surface is leveled, as for some time, some of the plates may drop or rise slightly.

After carrying out of the bushing, the floor needs to be vacuumed well and you can start coating it with the chosen composition. If the coating is to be applied with varnish, it must be carefully moved before application, especially, if the contains matting additives. After mixing, the lacquer on 10 - is left to "rest" for 15 minutes, to remove any air bubbles that arise when mixing. In the event that the floor is coated with water-based varnish, the composition can be slightly diluted with water, if it becomes too thick.

The application of varnish is most often carried out with a roller with a foam nozzle or with a wide brush. The movement of the tool should preferably be done in the direction of the invoice pattern of the wood.

Depending on the quality of the varnish and the desired final result, the coating composition is applied in two or even three layers. Each should be allowed to dry well before applying the next one. The drying time of the varnish must be indicated on the packaging. More about lacquers for wooden floors and parquet is told in the special publication of our portal.

After applying the last layer of the composition to the floors, it must be left for fastening to 4 - for 5 days, and only after this time can be subjected to operational loads. Slower the varnish will dry in the event that the room is cool and the humidity is increased.

After drying, to remove the residual tackiness of the floor, is recommended for to be slightly washed with a mild soap solution, for example with a household cleaner.

Scratches and strips

Most commonly scratches and dark stripes on parquet semi appear from heels or rubber soles. If the parquet is made of wood solid rocks and has a high quality protective coating, then it is more resistant to mechanical damage, but sometimes it happens by accident. is damaged when moving furniture. Therefore, , in the house where the parquet is laid, is always in stock with slippers with a soft sole not only for the family members, but also for the guests. From black strips on the surface of the parquet can save a special polymer mastic, which covers the floor.

parquet. If the parquet was not covered with a protective device, and the did form strips, can be purchased for their removal.

If there are small scratches, the problem is solved using a retouching pencil of the same tone that has parquet coverage.

Slots and chips

If some chipped chips are formed, it's a little more difficult to cope with this problem, but - is also quite possible. For this event, there are several effective tools - is putty on wood, putty-melt , homemade composition of epoxy glue and sawdust.

• Before proceeding to repair the parquet with chipping, it is necessary to carry out the cleaning process with a vacuum cleaner. The deepening of the chip must be absolutely clean - only in this case any of the fillers will have good adhesion to the surface of the wood.

- Usual putty on wood can be applied with deep chips - in this case it will be better kept. But unfortunately , this kind of material for parquet restoration will not last for long, as it is more calculated on the plane, which are less exposed to mechanical loads, and more often, the is basically , the "cosmetic" effect.

- filler-melt is used for parquet repair. This agent is an solid wax having a variety of shades and colors. Apply this tool to the damaged places in the molten form. To soften it, use a reheating with the help of the rechargeable or gas .This tool is suitable for sealing deep chips, cracks, dents and scratches, formed not only in the floor, but also other natural and artificial surfaces. After full hardening of the similar putty are not terrible load and mechanical effects.

- self-leveling filler can be made from two-component epoxy glue and sawdust of the right shade. First, the glue components are mixed into one composition - the proportions of of its manufacture are indicated on the package. Then in the composition you need to gradually add sawdust and mix into a homogeneous mass.

If such putty is made and applied correctly, it will serve as much as the parquet will lie.

• Further, the chip or dent is filled with one of of fillers. Its shade needs to be chosen a little lighter than the color of the parquet, if the chip is small. If the is filled with a large area of ​​, it is better to choose a shade that is identical to the color of the parquet.
• After the setting material hardens, remove its excess, if any, and grind the surface using fine-grained sandpaper. If a large area of ​​the die was subjected to restoration, then it is best to cover it with varnish or rub it with mastic.
• If the parquet has dried up and there are crevices between the plates, they can be sealed with a compound made from joinery glue and water, which are taken in the proportions 2:15.They are heated and cooked until the glue dissolves completely in the water. Then, five parts of fine sawdust and the same of cement are added to this mixture, and the of its is mixed until uniform.

• putty This mixture is applied to the slits formed between the plates and left to dry, and its excess immediately wiped off the surface of the parquet. The areas fixed by this compound dry for a long time - about 10 ÷ 14 days, but if they are well-congealed, putty reliably will hold on and protect the coating from moisture penetration through the cracks.
• The gap between the plates can be formed and near the baseboards, if laid piece parquet. In order for to eliminate this problem, it is necessary to raise the skirting board - maybe weakened the spacer wedge or it in general for some reason is missing. In this case, you need to change or install a spacer between the wall and the extreme die so that the plinth can be replaced.

Unscrambled

Parquet without proper care, with time, can dry up, especially if indoors keeps the temperature above normal, or if temperature changes occur very often and quickly. Under this influence, the dies dry out, become smaller and, correspondingly, loosen.

If the large sections of the parquet are loosened, then it is replaced completely, since the partial replacement of the will take as much time as laying a new coating. In addition, the extensive repair of one of the floor parts of the does not give the any certainty that the rest of the elements will not be shaken after a while.

If several dies have risen, they should be replaced with new ones, but it is necessary to find these details of the same size, colors, and made of the same wood.

• Loosened plates are removed using a chisel. If the parquet is pulled out heavily, then its should be split, having established a cutting plane of the chisel parallel to the structure of the wood fibers in the die. After splitting the , its is removed from the general structure in parts.

• Then, you need to remove from the base in the vacant area on which the remote was standing, the glue residues, the surface should be well cleaned and, if necessary, aligned with the putty.
• If you need to replace a single piece plate, then from the prepared part you need to cut the comb, and its end to handle the plane. Perhaps will have to cut this part and from neighboring dice, if have to change several pieces of standing parquet elements.
• It is possible to do another way - to collect the "cage" from the dice separately, on the surface, and then install its in the overall drawing as a whole. The main thing is that the assembled element fits well into the common plane.

• Replacing individual parquet elements, they can be installed in place on the glue or bituminous mastic, which will have before heating the plates. On the new, just laid parquet floor it is recommended to lay the load, but in such a way that its part lies on the neighboring, long-pasted tiles. If the edges overflow to ley, it should be removed immediately, without waiting for it to dry.

• When the glue dries up completely, the area subjected to restoration work needs to be cleaned with sandpaper, remove dust from stripping and varnish, oil, mastic or other compound with which the entire surface is covered by .

Video: Partial repair of parquet floor with replacement of

boards. Parquet creaks

Unpleasant scrumble of a parquet appears in cases when it was laid with technological requirements. Specialists also point out that the creak may appear if the dies are glued to the bitumen mastic in a hot way. The creaking manifests itself most often as a result of peeling off individual dies from the base or insufficiently good bonding between them during installation. As a result of these errors, comes rhenium, which causes a scratch.

To fix this defect and get rid of unpleasant sounds without analyzing the entire parquet cover, there are several ways:

• Screwing the parquet, in places of maximum squeak, to the base of the floor with anchorages. To implement this method it is necessary to drill through parquet dies and a concrete base. The hole must be large enough and drilled under the lock .An anchorage is inserted, the head is tightened in the wood after the tightening. In this case, the fastening firmly presses the decoupled plate to the base. After the parquet is secured to , the remaining from of the groove is filled with one of the above putties .

• Installation of a wooden pin, which rests on the in the base. In this case, the hole is drilled only in the parquet plate, depending on the its size, its diameter should be 15 ÷ 30 mm. Then a wooden round pin is cut, smaller than the of the drilled hole for 1 ÷ 2 mm. The hole is filled with thick glue and the pin is carefully inserted into it. The plate is leveled with the rest of the coating level and the leveling load is laid. After the glue dries, the excess length of the pin, which remains on top of the parquet surface, is cut off. On top of this place is sealed with putty and sanded.
• Filling the cavities formed under the cavities with glue mass through drilled with holes in them. In this variant, it is necessary to tap, the places where the creak is manifested. Then you need to drill a hole through which glue will be poured into the parquet with the help of a building syringe. After the cavities are filled, on top of newly glued parquet, you need to lay the load and do not remove it until the glue dries completely.

After that, all the holes are compared to the general surface, or shallow conical grooves are drilled in them, which are filled with with with the desired color, and after its descaling - is polished.

Which of the following is better for the in a particular case, will depend on the base material and on the method of fixing the parquet plates to it.

Soaking the parquet

The most unpleasant variant of damage to the parquet - is its swelling after getting wet - for example, there was an pipe breakthrough, and the floor floor was under water. Wood absorbs moisture well and from it swells, which leads to considerable deformation. The drying of the floor does not make the parquet level, and if the water gets under it, then exit - completely change the coating.

. If you do not raise the wet parquet immediately, mold will appear under it, and sooner or later its all equals will have to change , but during this time the fungus may riseon the walls, and in the room appear an unpleasant and very difficult to remove smell. Therefore , the parquet must be dismantled, cleaned of the adhesive base and well dried before laying another decorative coating.

Drying takes a fairly long time, but before testing the new coating, it is necessary to check the dryness of the concrete floor. To do this, the surface of the concrete is covered with waterproof polyethylene with film( with it must be sealed) and left for 12 ÷ 15 hours. If the is left dry after the of the time, the film remains dry, then a new coating can be laid. The appearance on it even a small amount of condensate indicates that the concrete should still dry, and the coating on it to be laid early.

In the case of a minor wetting of a small section of a parquet, the will have to raise not only it, but also the area around the emergency fragment to make sure that the rest of the - coating is dry. The raised parquet can be tried to dry and put in order, but in most cases it is necessary to change it to a new one, which should ideally match the color and textured pattern of wood.

Wear of

coating Any floor covering in use wears out, and parquet is no exception. It loses its respectability and aesthetics, ceases to look richly and effectively, which directly affects the appearance of the entire room.

To restore the cover of the former luxury, it is necessary to carry out measures for its cycling , removing the old, worn lacquer and a small upper layer of wood along with the resulting irregularities.

putty Then, is used for laying parquet, grinding and varnishing or mastic coating. Drying of the first coat of varnish takes place during the day, and only after that it is possible to apply a repeated layer of it. Layer layers should be , at least two, but better three or even four. Each of them must finally dry before applying the next one. The proper choice of varnish and its consistency is of great importance.

Experts call two-component compositions the best varnishes for coating parquet. They have an unpleasant sharp smell, so many refuse them in favor of water , which are not so durable, and their will have to update every 3 ÷ 5 years.

Splitting

dies There are also situations when separate elements of a parquet split into two or more parts of the - , this can occur as a result of improper installation or due to violations of the operating rules of the coating.

In this case, the cracked die is removed, its is pulled out using a chisel and a hammer, trying not to damage adjacent elements. Further, the new part is adjusted to the size of the formed emptiness and is pasted into the by using parquet glue. After to to the lee will dry - this place is leveled by the plane, if necessary, then is passed through it using , by removing the remaining slots, then it is ground and covered with the same composition as the whole coating.

It should be noted that it is very difficult to choose a shade identical to the general covering. Most often, one of the types of stain is used for this, but even if you can find a close color, it all will differ in tone, so you just have to try to bring the shades of the cover and the new plate closer to each other.

Video: overhaul of parquet flooring

Parquet - is a beautiful coating that gives the room a respectability and gloss. However, at the same time it should be noted that this is a whimsical material that requires special care and maintenance. If the parquet looks shabby and running, then the room becomes uncomfortable and sloppy. Therefore, if parquet is chosen for the flooring, you need to be ready for its various "whims", and it is necessary to know how to fix the flaws that have appeared.