The wooden floor is beautiful and comfortable. But this element needs proper care and handling. To reduce the cost of construction or repair, you need to try to perform the maximum possible number of construction processes yourself. Do-it-yourself wood flooring is a feasible task that will reduce the budget for erecting or repairing your own home.
Preparation for work
Like any construction process, the treatment of a wooden floor needs preparation. Before proceeding with active actions, it is required to prepare the necessary tool. This category includes:
- sanding machine;
- interchangeable belts-skins and disks for equipment;
- an extension cord that will allow you to easily process even remote corners of the room with an electric tool;
- construction vacuum cleaner that will remove dust after processing.
Advice! It is better to put clean socks on your feet when doing work. Walking on a freshly finished floor in shoes is highly discouraged.
Grinders are different, it all depends on their purpose. For high-quality processing, it is better to rent equipment, this will allow you to use a good tool without extra costs.
Wood flooring requires the following grinding machines:
- drum for rough cleaning;
- surface grinding for finishing grinding;
- angle grinder for hard-to-reach spots and corners.
When renting equipment, it is important to remember not only its cost, but also include it in the budget and take money with you to make a deposit.
The amount can be 10-30 thousand rubles, so it is better to take care of its availability in advance so that then there are no problems. Money will be returned after the equipment has been handed back to the owner.
During preparation, it is also important to make sure that the wiring in the apartment is in good condition. During work, a high load on the electrical network will be created, which can lead to damage. If the electrical wiring in the house is made according to the “triangle” scheme, if the wiring in the apartment is damaged, problems will arise not only for its owner, but also for neighbors.
The neighbors should be warned about the repair for another reason - excessive noise. It is important to remember the law that governs the hours during which repairs can be carried out. For each administrative region of the country, these hours are different, so it is better to study your rights in advance.
Safety precautions
Wood flooring is a responsible process. It is important to remember that work is carried out with special equipment, which, if handled improperly, can be dangerous to humans. To avoid troubles, it is recommended to consider the following recommendations:
- Cycling should occur in a tightly closed room. Other rooms must be insulated to prevent debris, dirt and dust from entering them.
- Hanging parts, hair and other parts of the body and clothing can easily get into the mechanism, leading to breakage and personal injury. It is important to choose a comfortable workwear before starting work, which does not constrain movements and does not pose a risk when performing floor processing.
- There is no need to press heavily on the tool during processing. When pressed (especially uneven), indentations form in the boards.
- It is important to monitor the wire connected to the network. There is a danger of it falling under the grinder. If this still happened, you must immediately unplug the device and replace the extension cord. Performing work with a damaged power supply cable poses a high risk to life and is unacceptable.
Subject to safety precautions, problems with the performance of work should not arise.
Floor Scavenging Technology
Wood flooring is carried out in order to eliminate its irregularities. It is important to remember that scraping is always carried out along the wood fibers.
That is, for a simple wooden floor, it should be made along the flooring boards. In the case of parquet everything is much more complicated, here you need to consider its design. In many cases, craftsmen use small angle grinders or manual processing, since other options are not possible.
The following is the technology for wooden flooring in logs:
- Furniture is taken out of the room, the floor is cleaned of dirt and dust (thoroughly wash and vacuum clean).
- For work, take a drum grinding machine with a large skin. As an abrasive element, nozzles under the numbers 35-40 are used. Perform a rough sweep. Even for rough grinding it is impossible to direct the machine across the fibers of the material, therefore processing is carried out along the flooring boards. Work begins from the farthest corner, gradually moving to the most visible and passable places.
- During the work, dust accumulates in the dust collector of the tool.It is important to take care of its timely removal.
- Then proceed to the removal of varnish in hard to reach places. To do this, you will need an angle grinding tool that will allow you to process corners and niches. The work is performed in smooth movements. The processing direction is towards the wall.
- Next, a surface grinder enters the work. A disc with a fine-grained skin is used for it to finish the coating. The work is carried out according to the same scheme as before.
- After finishing grinding, it is necessary to prepare the composition for puttying the surface. There are two options for obtaining the desired color. The first is the simplest. In advance, in the store you need to buy a mixture for the work of the desired color, and after polishing, simply dilute it with water. The second option will save. An ordinary putty is purchased at the store. To obtain the desired color, sawdust, which was obtained during scraping, is introduced into its composition. The preservation of sawdust must be taken care of in advance.
- The composition is applied to the floor with a spatula. It is necessary to control the evenness of the layer, to prevent stains afterwards.
- After drying putties again take on the grinding machine. Now you need an abrasive disc with a hardness number of 20-25. Remove excess putty.
- Using a roller with a long handle, varnish is applied to the surface and wait for the time until it dries.
- For the final processing of the floor, you need to take a grinding disk with a stiffness number of 8-10. Such an abrasive element will give the surface smoothness and remove wood fibers that have risen during the work. The processing technology is the same as previously described.
Processing a wooden floor is usually not a problem. Another question is if you need to parquet. With a complex surface pattern, it is best to turn to professionals.