Parquet Board Care

When choosing a flooring, a modern person often prefers new technologies and prefers materials such as parquet or parquet. No one doubts that a floor made of such a material will delight the eye with a natural wood pattern and a perfect surface. In this article we will tell you how to care for a parquet board, what are its features.

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Structure Features

A parquet board made by modern technologies has many qualities that are characteristic of a natural tree - natural coloring, unique natural pattern, and sometimes even surpasses it. This is especially true for ease of installation. Such material is laid on the floor much easier and faster than parquet, and its lower cost makes it popular among buyers.

Important! Parquet board will have a lower cost if glued pieces are not used for its production. Such material is called two-, three- and four-lane.

Benefits

Parquet board has a lot of positive qualities:

• good resistance to decay;
• increased water resistance;
• simplicity of laying;
• non-susceptibility to chips and cracks;
• high soundproofness;
• diverse design;
• dimensional consistency due to resistance to deformation;
• there is no additional processing after assembly.

Important! To create a special atmosphere in any room will help the parquet board of various color and texture designs. This is a product made of beech, oak, maple, acacia and other exotic wood species will emphasize the individuality of the owner, as well as his refined taste.

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Mounting Features

Care for the floorboard begins even during the installation of such flooring:

• After purchasing the material, it is recommended to leave it for several days in the room where the material will be installed. This is done so that the wood adapts to the temperature and humidity in the room. This approach will greatly facilitate the installation process and extend the service life of the coating.
• The temperature in the room where the installation of the parquet coating is carried out should be 18-24 ° C, and the relative humidity - 40-60%.

When operating a floor covering, it is desirable to maintain such microclimate parameters constantly. This material, like man, needs moisturizing and air conditioning.

Important! It is not recommended to lay a parquet board with a beech and maple top coating on the “warm floor” system.

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Types of protective films

As a protective coating for parquet boards today use: oil-wax compounds and specialized varnishes. A similar solution can be purchased at a building materials store.

Varnishes for parquet

A very hard and durable layer on the surface forms a special varnish coating. Varnishes can be one of the following types:

• based on synthetic solvents - a sufficiently sharp odor is emitted before hardening;
• water-based - non-toxic and practically odorless.

Important! Synthetic solvent varnishes can cause allergic reactions or choking. Therefore, it is very important that they are applied in the factory - all the necessary conditions are observed there.For example, some wear-resistant coatings require UV light for fixing.

Oil and Wax Compounds

Oil-wax mixtures are also used to protect the flooring from the parquet board and to regularly care for it. They penetrate deep into the wood, fill the pores, while creating a unique, inimitable look and emphasizes the texture of wood.

This method of protecting wood has come to us from centuries ago, but remains in demand until now.

Important! For timely and proper care of the floorboard, this procedure should be repeated approximately once a year.

To cover this surface of the floor decor with varnish, follow these guidelines:

1. Thoroughly clean the floor surface from contamination;
2. First, apply a uniform layer of oil to the floor surface;
3. The second layer consists of wax and oil.

This processing method is absolutely harmless to human health, as the product consists of environmentally friendly components.

Important! If you have a desire to switch from an oil-wax protective layer to a varnish, you must first remove all the applied wax composition by grinding. Only then can a primer and varnish be applied. Otherwise, the varnish will not be fixed.

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Operating conditions and general care

General care for the floorboard is to protect it from intense mechanical stress during cleaning and operation. To this end, the following measures are taken:

1. It is necessary to glue felt pads or other soft fabric onto furniture legs. Lay transparent plastic rugs under the furniture on casters.
2. Parquet board always suffers from the abrasive action of sand, which we bring with street shoes. To avoid its rapid wear, at the entrance to the apartment place special protective mats, which are of two types - hard and soft. Always change street shoes to your home.
3. To maintain cleanliness in a room with parquet flooring, use a normal vacuum cleaner.

Important! To clean floors from such wood, the use of:

• dishwashing detergents;
• thinners for paints;
• solvents;
• gasoline and alcohol.

In case of emergency, a mild detergent can be used.

Flooding the floor with water is not allowed. Areas that are heavily contaminated should be cleaned only with special means that are provided for protective and decorative flooring.

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Caring for an oil-waxed board

If you are interested in the question of how to care for a parquet board, then adhere to the following recommendations:

1. Unlike varnishes, oil-wax compositions do not form an outer film, but only fill the pores, preventing the penetration of moisture and various impurities into the base of the structure. To restore an oil-soaked parquet board, only damaged areas can be polished, which are then re-coated with oil.
2. When performing floor cleaning from a parquet board treated with oil-wax impregnation, water-soap solutions are used. The floor is wiped with a well-wrung and clean rag parallel to the wood fibers.

Important! Such cleaning is carried out as contamination. It will take 30 minutes to completely dry the floor. After that, you can polish the floor with universal tools that combine the functions of cleaning and protection.

3. In a room with increased loads, flooring must be updated once every six months. In apartments where people wear slippers, the floor can be updated once a year, and sometimes less often. To do this, use oil for periodic floor care.
4. Hygienic maintenance of wax-treated parquet boards is carried out only by dry cleaning. Waxed floors are treated with products that contain solvents or wax.

Important! When wondering what to wash a parquet board with, one should not use soap solutions that contain strong alkalis - they can lead to a change in the color of the floor.

If you have chosen the right technique for caring for a parquet board, then this material will last for a long time. It is important that during operation it will not be necessary to grind it, breathe wood dust and suffer from suffocation or allergies after inhaling the acrid smell of varnish. To care for such a floor, it is enough to wipe it with a cloth, using only cleaning compositions that do not require polishing.

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Damage prevention

In the first year of operation, the processing of the parquet board with oil and wax can be carried out once every three months. The processing procedure is as follows:

1. Clean the floor clean and let it dry for 6-7 hours.
2. Using a special brush, oil the surface.
3. After five minutes, use a dry and clean cloth to remove unabsorbed oil.
4. Apply protective wax to the surface one day after the oil treatment.
5. When carrying out wet cleaning of a floor from such a material, a soluble protective wax must be added to the water.
6. Further processing of the parquet is carried out as necessary.

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In this article, we shared with you practical recommendations on how to care for a parquet board, and talked about the main features of such material. We hope that the floors in the house will delight you with cleanliness and aesthetic appeal for a long time, without taking up a lot of personal time.