Finishing hardwood floors

To give the floor a finished look and laying some of the low-voltage electrical wiring, there are skirting and fillet. When attaching these elements allowed them rigid with only one construction: a wall (Fig. 27) or with parquet floor (Fig. 28). This way of fixing skirting and fillet prevents the spread of percussion sounds in adjacent rooms. Fillets attached to a wood floor nail length 25-40 mm or with screws, by which holes are at a distance of 700-800 mm from one another. Painted or varnished skirting mounted to the wall (after pasting last wallpaper) nails, hammering them into wooden plugs. Unpainted skirting boards are fixed to the walls before painting or wallpapering the past. In order to eliminate irregularities, deep dirt flooring and differential levels of neighboring elements covering, sanding. In the manual method used by steel rings. Work keeps his left hand pen loop, and the right-hand presses the cutting edge to the floor (Fig. 29). Sanding are two workers: a parquet layer (highly skilled) tsiklyuet, and the second floor with water moisturizes and removes chips. After sanding parquet carefully sanded to smooth out minor defects. Grinding is usually performed machines move smoothly in all directions. The last stage of finishing hardwood floors - hardwood floor scrubbing or coating it with lacquer. Finished flooring is needed not only to create a beautiful appearance, but also to prolong its life: the solid water-resistant film protects the flooring from dirt, moisture and wear, rubbed and varnished floors are well cleaned from dust and dirt. Water putty on a wax-based diluted with warm water and applied a thin even layer on a clean floor. After drying, causing vtdroy layer of mastic. After re-drying the surface rubbed to a shine poloternoy machine. In accommodation, after polishing the floor should be polished sukonkoy. Prior to varnishing parquet should be well ottsiklevan and polished. Varnish is applied evenly with a brush or sponge on dry, clean flooring, starting from the opposite side of the room from the entrance and moving toward the door. After one day, the surface of the first layer of varnish should be rubbed with fine emery cloth to collect dust and secondary cover parquet lacquer. The third layer of varnish is applied after drying the second. During the coating should be well ventilated.