Restoring parquet flooring

gareth.marlow · 2006-10-15T11:33:42+00:00

We discovered on moving in to our house a month or so ago, that under avile red carpet in the living room was some beautiful parquet flooring,presumably dating from when the house was built in 1956. We've nowfinished painting the ceiling and walls and have lifted the carpet tolook at the parquetry more closely.Clearly, previous owners have shown little regard for it as it hasnumerous areas of misted paint spattering and others with larger smearsand stains of paint. In a few other places, the bitumen layer that thefloor stands on has seemed through the gaps in the wood blocks. I haveput some photos of this on my website here: areas look fine - a little dull through having been underunderlay for at least 20 years, but nothing that a good clean won'tsort out. But we're wondering what the best way of restoring thepaint-spattered areas will be - scraping? sanding? something chemical?Any advice gratefully received.Gareth

Oct 15, 2006 23 Replies

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Andy Hall 19 years ago

OK. The reason for highlighting it was my preference for matt, natural and maintainable finishes and the OP felt the same.

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HLAH 19 years ago

You are most likely correct, Bourne Shine was quite milky in appearance whilst Klear is, erm, clear :-)

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gareth.marlow 19 years ago

Somehow I'm not surprised!

I can imagine.

Absolutely - you can imagine how pleased we were to find it there.

Excellent.

That would be great.

Cheers, Gareth

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gareth.marlow 19 years ago

I'm picking up the thread at the weekend so I'll get some tomorrow.

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