How to paint parquet

Parquet, and especially color is a sign of prosperity in the house. The wood can be toned oil, stains, varnish and make patterned parquet. For children's best to choose a light paint with a slight sheen or matte. You can paint and new flooring, and prepared for such work is old.

You will need

- The paint;
 - Roller and brush;
 - Nail.

Instruction
1
 For painting new oak parquet take latex paint the desired shade, for example, Dulux Vinyl. Material usage count by referring to the table on the can of paint. Usually enough for one liter of 13 square meters of floor. Dries it means quickly - 2-4 hours.
2
 Begin to paint after laying parquet. If you need to paint the old surface, it first must ottsiklevat and proshpaklevat. Parquet wood must be clean, with no layers and tools.
3
 Stir the paint. In hot weather, slightly dilute it with water. Take a roller with a long handle, not to work bent over. Funds to take a little roller, paint the board at the board carefully, observe the direction of laying.
4
 Apply two thin coats of paint. Second apply after 2-4 hours after the first. Paint should not be many, through color coating plates will be viewed by their texture, shape and size.
5
 Check whether the agent has dried. If the paint has dried completely, apply a durable clear coat of water-based. He must protect the painted flooring from exposure to chemicals, alcohol and hot water. Before applying the lacquer mix well. Do it thoroughly, but gently to avoid air bubbles.

Restoration of parquet

Average recovery of parquet flooring is not suitable for such an old one. But the real masterpieces of the masters who created more than a decade, and century, or even two years ago, require a more reverent attitude. Antique flooring carries a vision of the era, during which it was created, and technological features parquet masters of the time. This flooring requires careful care and the least interference from man. If you are a happy owner of a century hardwood floor in my house and going to restore it, it is better to entrust it to professionals. After intervention by unqualified person not familiar with the design of the old flooring may end in failure. First of all flooring will simply lose its historical value.

Restoration of parquet, strange as it may sound, begins with an examination of documentation about it. Master-parquet need to know when the flooring was made, and what technology was carried out of his blow. Also qualified for the restoration of parquet flooring must record the condition in which the entire structure of parquet.

Particular attention in the restoration of the parquet will give a true master of the base, which has been laid parquet. If the restoration of the parquet provides for the replacement base, the new base must necessarily be made of natural solid wood. Such substitutes of wood, like plywood have little life, so their use in restoration work can cause the destruction of the very floorboards.

Not only the technology of parquet century ago was different from today's - and the other was the principle of care. And this procedure was very laborious. Restoration began with the parquet floor polishing with a mixture of bile and sand. Then, after washing with clean water parquet rubbed with sand again with the addition of sulfuric acid. Then the floor was washed once with clean water and left to dry completely. And only after that to re-prime the parquet. Because of these features parquet care of the time, you should not restore the flooring with modern methods. Grinding the old flooring and coating machine of its modern varnish completely destroy the traces of the previous treatment of parquet. Therefore, the restoration of the parquet in the present conditions is carried out with the use of tape machines and large-scale abrasive. This allows you to recreate the old methods of restoring the parquet.

Thus, the restoration of the parquet - the procedure is not only time consuming but also requires special knowledge about the technology of placing the old flooring. Therefore, there should be no restoration of the parquet, which existed in your home than a decade, on their own.

Professional, entrusted with the restoration of the parquet, after studying the documentation required for the dance floor, first and foremost, determine what is necessary to carry out restoration work in a particular situation. Restoration of parquet necessarily includes restoration of the old pattern. Restore a picture of the old parquet floor does not always mean it was his play in its original form. Often this is a new parquet pattern, but in the style of the era, when the flooring was created.