Sooner or later, the wooden floor begins to creak, crack, there are cracks in it, which draws a draft. To eliminate these problems, you can simply repair the floor, and if you have the financial capacity and desire, you can replace it with a modern floor covering. Let's look at how to repair the wooden floor in an apartment with your own hands.
Repair of old wooden floors
Works on the repair of wooden floors consist of three parts: preparatory, proper repair and finishing.
- First we remove all skirting boards . From painted boards remove the paint layer to clean wood. Carefully remove the boards themselves, not forgetting to number them in order to put them in the right order. Decayed floorboards are replaced with new ones. If half the board is damaged, you should cut out the damaged part and put a new one in its place. On the reverse side, each board can be treated with impregnation from mold and rotting. We remove all the garbage accumulated under the lags.
- We warm our future renewed sex. To do this, lay between the lag warmant in the form of expanded clay, foam or mineral wool.
- Put the vapor barrier - a strip of polyethylene or other film, connected by foil tape. On top of the stacked boards in the order written on them numbers. The boards to the logs are attached by screws, which need to be deepened into the wood by about 5 mm.
- The next step is leveling and looping, that is, grinding the floor.
- We cover all the cracks and the places of fixing the screws with putty. After drying it, we polish these places once again. We thoroughly clean the floor surface of the garbage with a damp cloth.
- We treat our new floor with protective impregnation, we screw the skirting boards.
- It remains to apply to the floor any finish coat: lacquer, mastic, oil or paint. So we carried out the repair of the floor with the wooden floor.
