Parquet care at home
The contents
If you want to preserve the original aesthetic appearance of the floorboard, you need to fulfill certain requirements for care:
- Systematic care of parquet is performed using a conventional vacuum cleaner.
Attention! A vacuum cleaner is not suitable for cleaning coating. - The frequency of complete cleaning once a week. If Paul spilled a great amount of water, the section should immediately wipe dry. If this is not done, water will get between floor boards and over time they will begin to rot. The result will have to spend money to repair the floor.
- Control the humidity in a room with hardwood floors. This flooring does not like moisture gradients. To keep the room humidity stable install aquarium. It will help to prevent the drying up of parquet boards, slightly increase the humidity.
- When the floor surface of ink stains, vinegar, dirty traces, the remnants of furniture polishes, you should immediately remove them with a damp cloth. When placing under the furniture seal or cardboard on the floor also dark spots. Pet owners need to protect your floor from spills.
- Quality care for parquet Board is possible only in cases, when properly selected skin care.
When you select the cloth, the preference for the material, excellent water absorbency. The cloth should not be tight, so as not to scratch the flooring.
Particular care ↑
The flooring has a different top coat: oil-wax, lacquer.
There are some features of the care of lacquer finish. Applying a layer of lacquer on the Board is performed by the manufacturer at manufacturing of parquet Board, either directly after the installation of flooring. When applying the lacquer layer with the second method, I advise you to postpone the installation of the furniture for 10-14 days. During this time, the varnish layer is fully cured, you can put the furniture in the room. When coating on the lacquer layer accumulates dirt, there are small scratches, scrapes. To eliminate all these flaws need special tools, a soap solution can be used. Large firms engaged in the manufacture of flooring, offer a complete line of products, which you can use to take care of the coating.
To update parquet flooring in locations with maximum traffic (corridor, kitchen), 2-3 times a month, you can use special tools. Basically products offered by makers in the form of polishes, made on a wax basis. Such funds have no unpleasant smell, and therefore safe for the inhabitants of the apartment.
Restore the Shine of the flooring is possible with the use of special funds of air freshener. To eliminate «bald patches» the floor will need paint – spray. If the flooring is systematic care, in this case, the coating can last for 10-15 years then have to upgrade varnish.
Highlight the main care options for flooring, coated with a wax or oil layer. Before beginning cleaning it is important to check the condition of the floor. Defects: chips, cracks, you need to carefully clean them with wire, then fill with carpenter’s glue mixed with sawdust.
Parquet, covered with wax, suggests dry cleaning. As a preventive means you need to choose such compositions in which the solvent and wax.
When wet cleaning of parquet are not supposed to use soap. Otherwise, change the color of the floor in the places where you will get soap, neither of which the aesthetics of parquet flooring of speech does not go. The care of the new flooring is expected to be 2-3 one-time fee per month according to the following algorithm:
- cleaning, drying floor;
- processing protective oil, removing excess oil;
- coating treatment layer of protective wax.
Further, prophylactic treatment of parquet can be carried out 1 time per month. If you find the damaged place on the floor, to eliminate them conventional grinding machine.
Prevention ↑
Hardwood floors experience the daily mechanical influence on them gets scratched m chips. To increase the operating period of such coatings you can use the following methods:
- Remove the floor carpet. Under carpets accumulate a large amount of dirt. Small grains of sand can damage top the wax or the varnish layer of the parquet.
- Control furniture on wheels. When moving such furniture on parquet boards, scratches and chips.
- Furniture legs are doing a special felt pads. At the entry door put the Mat to absorb moisture, not echoing on the parquet sand.
Means to care for flooring ↑
Currently, manufacturers offer a variety of preventive means by which to return the flooring to its original brilliance.
Varnishes for parquet. Protective varnish forms on the surface as a dense layer. Allocate varnishes: water-based; based on a synthetic solvent
Such coatings are suitable for coating the flooring in the premises. There are paints, coating which involves the use of ultraviolet lighting. To improve the moisture resistance of the flooring should be done after laying, apply on Board a layer of varnish made of water-based.
Wax – oil mixture. Getting deep into the wood, these solutions fill the pores, emphasize the individuality of the wood give the flooring a unique look. First on the floor put a layer of special oil, then cover the floor with a mixture of oil and wax. This mixture is safe for Pets, does not cause allergies in children. The frequency coverage of the parquet floor is the membership – 1 year.
If you have decided to move from the protection of their sex wax and oil to varnish, first remove all the wax layer, then programsuite flooring, then coat it with a layer of varnish. Eliminate wax residue by using grinding machine.
Conclusion ↑
If the floor has an aesthetic appearance, it is able to create a cosy atmosphere. In order for the entire period of operation, the floor was original Shine, it was not chips, scratches, periodically the floor should be treated with cleaners. The choice of means to care for flooring remains with the owner of the dwelling.