Do-it-yourself parquet restoration: the best ways from repairmen

The tarnished surface of the flooring made of parquet boards can restore its former beauty. To do this, there are many methods and techniques that allow you to restore the flooring, spending a minimum of money. Sometimes during improper use, a coating of natural material suffers significant damage, the elimination of which takes a large amount of time and requires financial injections. However, in any case, it is cheaper to restore the old coating than to completely replace it with new material. Let us dwell on the main types of repair of aged parquet.

Methods for masking cracks and crevices

Having discovered cracks and cracks on the surface of the parquet coating, the thickness of which does not exceed one and a half millimeters, it is necessary to seal them with a special putty for parquet. When choosing a putty, the type of wood from which the laid parquet is made should be taken into account. Before you start filling the gap, thoroughly clean it of dust and debris using a vacuum cleaner with a plastic nozzle.

Do not use screwdrivers, sticks, and other similar items to remove debris from the crack, as you can increase the thickness of the damage. In this case, debris, as a rule, is clogged even deeper and prevents reliable setting of the putty from the base surface.

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DIY parquet restoration

After preparatory work, the putty is applied with a spatula or knife to the crack, trying to fill its space as densely as possible. The excess putty that comes out is removed from the surface of the parquet, after which the material is allowed to dry. Further, the restored place is cleaned with a sandpaper until perfect surface smoothness appears. Then applied protective layer of mastic or varnish.

Important! Do not waste time filling up cracks of large sizes, since the putty will still move away from the edges and all will come out on the parquet surface. In such cases, other methods are used to restore the integrity of the natural coating, namely the replacement of parquet fragments.

Partial parquet floor replacement

Heavily damaged parquet planks, as well as falling boards, must be carefully dismantled and replaced with new elements. In this case, a thorough cleaning of the base floor base from the remnants of old glue and dust is carried out. This allows for better adhesion of the parquet adhesive to the surface of the base when attaching a new parquet. Sometimes, for these purposes, not glue is used, but thin nails, with the help of which the element is nailed obliquely at an angle to the firmly adjacent adjacent elements.

To adjust the floorboards in height, a plane is used, with which the protruding part of the board is cut along the wood fibers. To facilitate operation, the bar is pre-wetted with water.

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Replacing parquet boards

If it is necessary to replace several worn or dropped strips, they are first connected, and then this design is placed in a restored place. To ensure better bonding of the parquet fragment, a load is used, which is laid on the glued floorboards for several days.

Tap all other parquet floors to detect voids in order to carry out all the repairs at a time. It is clear that the price for restoration of the parquet is taken depending on the size of the damaged area, which affects the amount of acquisition of new planks. If you can’t get the elements of parquet that are suitable in color and texture, then resort to a game of contrasts. This technique is often used in the design of premises.

Scouring and grinding of the base

To refresh the entire surface of the floor, you must use special looping machinewhich can be rented. This removes chips with a thickness of up to 3 mm, strictly along the wood fibers.

Sanding is a mandatory procedure to give a parquet a presentable appearance. With its help, you can smooth the wooden surface, clean scratches and cracks. Of course, grinding is not done manually, but using special equipment - grinding machines. About such machines and how to choose the right one, read the article:https://floor.expertexpro.com/en/pol-pokritiya/parket/kak-vybrat-shlifovalnuyu-mashinku.html

Parquet looping

The impact on the floor can be reduced with the help of a grinding tool that treats the surface in a more gentle way. Carrying out the restoration of parquet with their own hands, masters use grinding machines more and more often because when working with them it is not necessary to strictly observe the direction of processing. A renewed parquet must be coated with a layer of protective varnish or oil.

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Ruslan
6 years ago

You can try to restore the floor with your own hands, but this can lead to even greater damage. So improper use of grinding machines can lead to the removal of a layer more than necessary, as a result of which waves and depressions form on the floor. It is better to entrust this process to professionals.
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1. Hope
  3 years ago
  
  Invited a specialist, all work performed on 13 sq. M. in 6 hours. And in the morning I looked and almost burst into tears. Before hinging the parquet looked better, it was smooth, even, only in two places the varnish was wiped, and now it is a hunchbacked and striped wooden flooring! So trust the "professionals"!
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Galina
6 years ago

When it was necessary to restore the parquet again, since after a long service life it had already ceased to be as beautiful and brilliant as it was before. We decided with my husband what the masters of this case would call, since they themselves did not even know which side they needed to approach this difficult matter, and they were afraid to break something. There are more than enough masters now, but not all are as good and competent specialists as it seems at first glance. Personally, I recommend for such matters not to call new people, but those whom you already trust in the repair or at least ask friends for help. The article is very useful and understandable, but I still would not have decided to restore my parquet myself or even with the help of my husband.
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Chapik
7 years ago

For a long time I wanted to restore the flooring in my mother’s apartment. He is old but good. It's a pity to pluck and put a new one. Thanks to your article, I understood the principle of recovery. If I understood everything correctly, the process is very lengthy, but gives a good result. I’ll try when I go on vacation.The main thing is that there is no need to change it.
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