Parquet redecorating

Parquet is a beautiful, environmentally friendly and warm floor covering, which is very popular in our time. But sometimes it happens that the floor begins to creak and deteriorate due to the fact that dirt and excess moisture have got into it. In this case, it is necessary to carry out redecorating the parquet. How to carry out the restoration procedure so that after it the floor covering will please you for many more years - we will describe in our article.

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Restoring old parquet

It is necessary to start restoration of the parquet already at the first appearance of squeaking, cracks, swelling or drying of individual strips, scuffs and dirty spots.

Important! Do not bring the parquet to a state where there is no turning back. Floor restoration is much faster and cheaper than a complete replacement.

Restoration of the old parquet consists of the following stages:

• Definition of creaky, problem areas.
• Dismantling the entire floor or individual parquet planks.
• Replacing modules or some of the brackets with new ones.
• Putty cracks, repair cracks.
• Grinding and scraping.
• Coating with wax, varnish or oil.

The list of restoration works depends on the state of your flooring.

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Redecorating

If the appearance of your floor has changed, cracks and creaks have appeared, then it will be enough for you to redecorate the parquet.

Crack repair:

• Use a narrow-head vacuum cleaner to clean them.

Important! Do not remove rubbish from cracks with improvised means - this way you can damage parquet floorboards even more.

• Coat the cracks with special putty on the tree along and across with a spatula.

Important! In this way, only small cracks up to 2 mm wide can be repaired. If the crack is large, then the entire die must be replaced.

Rid of squeaks

Next, you need to solve the problem with a creak. If a few creaks creak, then this problem can be easily solved with dowels and screws. If your flooring is on a cement-sand or concrete screed, the creak comes from the fact that the floorboard has come unstuck from its base and rubs against neighboring ones. It is impossible to get it without damaging it; therefore, it is necessary to perform the following actions:

• Drill a hole in the creaky bar, and you need to grab a couple of centimeters of the base for the length of the dowel.
• Insert the dowel into the finished hole and screw in the screw, drowning the hat in the wood.

Important! By self-tapping the plank with the floor firmly adheres and eliminates friction.

• Coat the place where the fasteners are screwed in with putty.

Important! Squeaking occurs from aging wood, drying out, or stacking violations.

Elimination of a creak of the parquet laid on bituminous mastic, using a screed from the edges:

1. Humidity in the room should be 40-60%.
2. Remove the skirting boards and check the condition of the spacer wedges.
3. Drive in tightly new spacer wedges every 50 cm.
4. Knock them deeper every day and check the floor for creak.
5. If the floor does not creak, install the skirting board in place.
6. If the wedges cannot be driven deeper, and the coating continues to creak, it will have to be completely replaced.

Sealing cracks

Due to the drying of the wood, cracks appear. A narrow gap can be closed in the same way as minor defects - remove the layer of old varnish, putty, then apply a false joint and varnish.

Here's how to restore an old parquet that has slits more than 5 mm wide:

1. Warm the strips with parallel installation for 10-20 minutes with a construction hairdryer until the smell of mastic appears.
2. Tighten all planks with a hook and rubber mallet to form one large gap.
3. Fill this gap with rivets and putty, driving it flush with the parquet.
4. After the putty hardens, proceed to scraping, puttying of the area, applying false joints and varnishing.

Important! For parquet laid “herringbone”, this method is not suitable. Each gap requires an individual approach. They must be filled with small chips.

Swelling elimination

Such defects can be eliminated only in small areas, provided that there is little water on the floor.

Phased steps:

1. Warm the swollen area with a construction hairdryer for about an hour and a half.
2. Lay a thick cloth on the warm floor and distribute the oppression over the area. It is necessary that 10 kg of weight per 10 square meters. see. To do this, use books, bricks, buckets of water or other improvised tools that need to be installed on thick plywood or a 40 mm board.
3. After 24 hours, check the condition of the coating. If the swollen area begins to fall off, repeat the procedure.

If this method does not bring tangible results, then save such a parquet will not work.

Important! It is necessary to carry out the above measures only immediately after swelling. If a week or more passes, there will be no result.

Loose planks

If in different places of the flooring there are swaying of individual floorboards, then there is the possibility of attaching them with small nails to neighboring floorboards. It is necessary to drown the studs a couple of millimeters inward and putty, and then sanded the surface and varnished.

If several neighboring planks are shaken, then they can be strengthened with the help of bamboo.

Stages of the work:

1. Drill holes about 6 mm in diameter, 20 mm from the corners of the joints along the long sides.
2. Drive the bamboo pieces tightly into the holes.
3. Scratch the protruding section with a chisel.

Important! After a week, you can cycle, putty, grind and varnish the repaired area.

Grinding or scraping

Redecorating parquet consists of the main stage - grinding or scraping. Cycling is the removal of several millimeters of wood together with varnish. Together with a layer of wood, all scratches and problem potholes are removed. The flooring will look like new, but its thickness will decrease.

Important! This method can be restored no more than 3 times, because the average thickness of the parquet is 10 mm.

Grinding - removes about a millimeter layer of wood. Potholes, deep scratches, chips - will remain, they can be repaired with a special wax pencil or putty. This process takes longer, but retains the required millimeters of coating thickness.

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Most difficult cases

Scraping parquet is an expensive procedure, but there are times when you can’t do without it.

The most time-consuming restoration of the old parquet happens in such cases:

• The flooring looks trampled, shabby, with recesses, significant scuffs and cracks in the planks. It is possible to save the old flooring, but it is better to entrust this work to specialists.
• There was a swelling of the parquet over the entire area as a result of flooding with water. This problem cannot be fixed; you have to completely change the coverage.
• The tree turned black, the canvas became loose, which means that the floor is moldy and rotting. In this situation, a complete replacement of the entire floor covering is also needed. Moreover, after dismantling the old parquet, it is necessary to dry the room and update the entire foundation.

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We looked at popular options for how to restore old parquet. With minor damage, you can do it yourself with cosmetic repairs - for this, use the recommendations described above.With proper care, parquet will serve you for many years, as well as delight in comfort and beauty.