Over time, a wooden floor may become worthless, even if it was laid as reliably and high -quality as possible. The creaks of the halts during walking, slots, erased varnish, peeling paint, dents from heavy objects, bending and rotten boards, as well as other similar defects may appear. This makes you think about the need to carry out repair work. This can be done with your own hands.
If the removed boards will need to be laid again, then during dismantling it is necessary to carefully pull out nails with the extremely carefully, which will make it possible to avoid the surface damage and maintain the file of the spont and the groove into the whole and the safety of the rowing. During the reverse flooring, they are necessarily marked. You can repair the wooden floor solely with the help of boards in which the dimensions coincide with the dimensions of the old floorboards, while the types of compounds should also ideally coincide. Damaged old boards must be carefully cut, pulling out nails from them first. During a partial replacement of floorboards, it is important to pay special attention to the fact that the direction of the fibers in the new boards are located parallel to fibers from the old wooden floor.
In the wooden floor in the apartment, cracks of different thicknesses can form, on the size of which the method of sealing will depend. If they are not deep and narrow, then you can close them using a special putty on wood. It can be different in color. You can cook a putty and yourself. To do this, mix sawdust and carpentry glue in a water bath. The glue must be heated and constantly mixed with a wooden shoulder blade, adding a sawdust there until a thick mass is formed. It is necessary to light the gaps with a heated putty with a spatula. It is necessary to regularly heat the putty in a water bath so that it does not harden.
In the event that the cracks are deep and wide, they must be sealed with wooden planks from dried wood, preferably soft rocks. The bar must be made so that it looks like a wedge. Cooked wedges must be clogged with wooden kiyanka and PVA glue. In the case of too large cracks, it is recommended to re -break the floor from new or old, but good boards.
