Tree is a unique material. As an eco-friendly coating for the floor, he has no equal. His shade can be any thanks to toning. Also saved a unique texture. But this floor must be seated.
If you need to restore the old floor with your own hands, then the grinding is required: the eyed layer is removed, the floor is grinning until it becomes matte. The new coating is processed several times.
Grinding: Tools and Materials
The question of how to seize the wooden floor of the board, should not put in a dead end: work is not particularly complex, tools and materials available.
- Ordinary tools for such work are not suitable. A special machine is required, grinding, and better two: for grinding the main plane and for angular processing. Equipment is expensive, it is inappropriate to acquire for once, preferably rental.
- For the floor of the wood massif, planted throughout the perimeter on the glue, the machine is suitable for drum type. It will maintain a greater severity and a coating that is laid on the lags and has a thickness of 2.5 - 3 cm. The floating method of laying involves the use of light plane grinding machines.
- Manual cyclishing boards should not be excluded. The cycle, intended for grinding the floor manually, should be available.
- The sandpaper, different in size, graininess (first No. 40, then sequentially No. 60, No. 80, at the final stage - No. 120) will make the surface smooth. It is calculated by 20 m2 - one sheet of abrasive material of each of the sizes.
- For cutting sheets, scissors are required.
- The putty is purchased to eliminate the gaps.
- Lacuate the processed boards. For this process you will need brushes and rollers.
- The vacuum cleaner will allow you to remove the SOR before starting work with varnish.
- A mask or respirator will protect against the resulting wood dust.
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Performed types of work
Several grinding stages. First, the base of the wooden floor is prepared for processing.The main process is grinding. In case of detection of cracks, put a putty. Inaccessible places are processed separately, if necessary, manually.
Preparatory stage
What do in the process of preparing the floor to grinding with their own hands?
Remove furniture from the room.
Remove curtains and carpets.
The openings leading to other rooms are wrapped with a moistened tissue (even a high-end car having a dust bag is unable to eliminate dust formation).
Plinths are subjected to dismantling.
Clean the surface from protective coatings (varnish, paint).
Check the floor, whether there are no hats of nails or self-tapping screws: they must be completely recessed in the wood. When the old wooden floor is restored, it is necessary to check whether all the dies are tightly adjacent to the base.
Cyclishing lines the surface before final processing.
Put on mask or respirator; On the feet - light socks; You can work barefoot (otherwise stains are formed on the freshly treated surface).
Main works
Upon completion of preliminary action, a wooden floor grinding is performed.
The priority task is to refuel the grinders of sandpaper with a major abrasive. It is important to consider the direction of paper movement (manufacturers indicate the turnover) in order to avoid breaking the connecting seam.
The first stage is adjusting the pressure of the drum to the floor plane. In case of pressure failure, the processing quality will be low. The pressure exceeding the norm will result in engine overload, the number of revolutions will be below the laid.
Processing - only parallel to the fibers: perpendicular orientation of the movement threatens what the too large layer will be removed. Walking out the tracks with each other should correspond to a width of 5 cm.
Places with difficult access (under stairs, batteries, in the corners) will have to be pulled by a manual way. It is important to take into account that the cycle during operation comes into disrepair. To avoid premature damage, it must be periodically told.
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It is used for this water-flushed bar (length - more than 15 cm), which is washed and dried at the end of all actions. Sharpening angle - 45 degrees. You can use for grinding wooden floor "boot", a grinding machine of small sizes.
After performing the first pass, for the second, the emery paper having a smaller abrasive is fed. So pass 4 times, changing the abrasive material with different grain size (starting with more - ending with smaller). Moves are performed along the laying line Board , in the direction of wood fibers.
It should be paid to the fact that the engine is turned off solely when moving (you can not keep in one place). If this condition is not respected, visible marks remain on the floor, difficult to correction.
For thin coatings it is possible to exclude one passage. In this case, the sequence is this: 40 - 80 - 120.
Before proceeding to the last phase of the grinding of wooden floors, the cracks are applied with a composition of the smallest dust of wood and plow glue. Alternative - close in color paste. The putty should be frozen, then work can be continued. The size of the drum is reduced.
Rules requiring compliance
When performing work, you need to follow certain rules.
- Speed is the average (slow motion - a large layer is removed; fast - poor-quality processing).
- The cable should not get under the drum.
- It is impossible to say slip in place.
- The coarse abrasive material eliminates a strong push.
After grinding the wooden floor with their own hands, the coating acquires the perfect look. Holding a hand on the surface, evaluate the quality of work. The floor ideally is absolutely smooth, pleasant to the touch. Next, vacuum cleaners are opened with varnish, and the first layer is applied on the day of processing.
Under all the instructions, the grinding of the wooden floor is possible with their own hands. This will certainly reduce the estimated costs.