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The art of making a wooden floor

Create a parquet floor, is an art .

not a way of saying, but a reality that still lives through the experience of "ancient" craft, now a rare breed who have a wealth of personal experiences and work that is invaluable. In a world where speed of execution and the time is increasingly restricted, creating a parquet floor still has its charm.

Here we propose an example of Tecno Flooring of Florence such as the restoration of antique flooring, requires experience and ability to adapt to new techniques that work today may have.

The task entrusted to techno Parquet was to restore the floor a reading room; surface that had become virtually unrecognizable as it was dark, not to mention dirty and unpresentable.
In the picture you can see the difference between the portion of the floor already undergone a first aid clean-up and board the same, with the "patina" of dirt deposited over the years.

One of the requests made by the management (or rather one of the prohibitions imposed) was not to use mechanical equipment to roll. We wanted to provide a surface that is regenerated remove dirt and surface protection products with low environmental impact, but avoid excessive smoothing of the thickness of the wood and, above all, act without the use of equipment Mechanical . This is to maintain as much as possible, the originality of manual execution in wood flooring. Posts with mechanical sanders would certainly have had an excellent effect of cleaning, but at the same time have distorted the n ature of a floor built over a hundred years .

After several hypotheses, the idea was born to act brushing the surface of the wood on site, in a gradual way to remove dirt, a little at a time. A kind of manual scraping performed with an instrument equipped with a special brush that would clean the surface of the floor boards: so without using abrasive paper machines with a roller or beaters. The tool to polish the wooden surface, has a vacuum cleaner in order to minimize the inconvenience to the operator, who remained in close contact with him and the floor surface. The brush was adjusted from time to time in its potential to affect the wood surface to adjust the final visual effect. The floor was in fact not become excessively brush, because originally it was not; also liable to have an excessive means do not work optimally.

Gradually the surface of the wooden floor, began to highlight the color of old oak casks with a visually pleasing to the viewer. In the most difficult to reach, such as corners or near the mobile and fixed bases of tables and benches, was done manually and with a tiny brush amended.

During the work of removing surface dirt, were also carried out some repairs such as inserting a few rounds in order to close holes made in the past. Have been inserted " sverze Wood" to close the slots on the side, created in the course of decades as a result of variations in size of the planks in width, the procedure was adopted because of its size cracks, and the refusal to use solvent products, did not allow the use of the classic product to mix the grout. Also force the use of wooden inserts, also in Oak, allowed to keep almost entire surface of the floor to the vision of the observer. Avoiding the use of grout mixture, which certainly would have degraded over time as a result of normal movement of the wood, was also maintained the originality of the intervention of primordial installation.

The net effect of the wooden surface of the floor is certainly welcome, a light brushing gives even more an effect of old and lived on the floor, the Everything falls to the warm color of the mixture gave the entire work product protection.

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