Everyone knows that the wooden floor has many advantages over floors from other materials. It has the necessary qualities and characteristics for full use: durability, wear resistance, low thermal conductivity, sound permeability, etc. The best that could be invented in the floor covering industry is parquet. It wears both aesthetic orientation and practical, that is, it will perfectly fit into the style of any interior and will bring convenience to your house.
Properly manufactured and stacked parquet will serve several generations (usually subject to the rules for use, the service of such a coating is about 10-15 years).
If the view of your parquet coating began to disappoint you, then it is time to start updating it. This can be small repairs, such as the replacement of varnish coating, removal of irregularities and scratches. Also, if the parquet partially retained its external aesthetic qualities, and the strips still look beautiful, then it’s enough just to sort them out.
Change the flooring
After a long period of operation, you still have to change the flooring, the year does not spare even the highest quality and expensive parquet. You can replace it with a parquet board or laminate.
When removing the parquet, the most important action is to preserve the entire lower part of the rivet, it is nails that are clogged. To do this, you just need to break through the old nail with a kernel on the floor through the rivet.
Previously, rivets in the floor were not glued, in which case it was very simple to take them off. Now in almost any parquet they are glued, and in order to remove them it is necessary to break through the nails directly through them, then put rivets with an ax, and without wasting a lot of time to separate them from the floor. If the glued side remains on the bottom, remove it with an ax.
Types of strengthening parquet
There are times when the parquet is not pierced with nails, but linked to the floor with the help of resin. Parquet on the resin is most difficult to repair, because the rivets are flooded with resin, and most often it is simply impossible to clean. If such a parquet is your case, then you need to find the narrowest rivet, and I use it like a template to make it all the rest on it. Rivets can differ a little from each other in size, but it is best to try to make them the same as the same.
When using the parquet, some strips wear out more than the rest. In this case, you should not do the complete dismantling of the parquet, it is quite easy to replace the strips that have lost the former look. When replacing a separate bar, you need to try to cut down the comb, remove the old bar and clear the place under it. Then insert a new one and beat it with nails from the outside.
Flatten the hats of the nails to make them less catchy. And when driving nails near the wood fiber, deepen them into the bar for several millimeters. And the final stage is the sealing of cracks with thin strips and putting them on.
You can enjoy your new parquet!