Hi all
This is a bit of saga - apologies - but could really do with some advice.
We had a professional floor finisher come out in early December to sand and seal our kitchen floor with Junckers Hardwax Oil, the oil product he recommended. The floor is 1950s parquet and thought to be mahogany - it's everywhere in our flat.
The guy sanded the floor back to 80 grit and then put on two coats of oil, first coat day one, second coat plus buffing day two. He told us it had a 24 hours drying time. We waiting for 48 hours then covered it up with loose vinyl to protect it while the new kitchen was fitted.
On Christmas day we lifted the vinyl and while it looked great - beautiful colour, mid sheen - it immediately became apparent something was very wrong - a tiny splash of water, no matter how quickly wiped up, a sweaty-socked foot, left a grey mark on the wood that wouldn't buff out. We covered it back up to prevent any more damage and let the floor guy know there was a problem.
On Monday the floor guy came back out. He said the problem was that the floor needed 6 days to cure and so when we covered it up something went wrong with the cure hence problems. This was the first cure time was mentioned. This led me to google the technical sheet for the oil. I noticed it said three not two coats of oil for high traffic areas; that it said 16 hours before buffing and 6 days cure.
So, to fix the job, the floor guy sanded the floor with a small hand sanding machine to get the marks out and put another single coat of oil on. We have dutifully left it the six days.
It now looks dull, patchy and even walking on it in socks leaves dull marks and the water problem still seems to be present although not as badly. I asked the floor guy and he has kindly suggested he come back out and buff it but I am not sure this will fix it as you can see the difference in sheen in the corners where the original finish was compared with where he has sanded it back - much shinier originally - which makes me wonder is there enough oil on the floor?
So what I'm wondering is -
a) does the floor really need another coat of oil given it's high traffic and still is marking (it had two, was sanded back and then another one)
b) was the problem caused by the cure issue and if so why is it happening again or
c) was it to do with buffing too soon and basically buffing the oil back off?
We really need to get this sorted out as everytime another coat goes on that's another six days out of the kitchen but I am concerned that we *still* have a problem and buffing it is possibly not the answer and I don't want the guy to buff it if that's not going to solve the problem and possibly we need another coat of oil on.....but I don't know enough about it. Any advice would really be appreciated.
Can anyone help?
Thanks
Mu
This is a bit of saga - apologies - but could really do with some advice.
We had a professional floor finisher come out in early December to sand and seal our kitchen floor with Junckers Hardwax Oil, the oil product he recommended. The floor is 1950s parquet and thought to be mahogany - it's everywhere in our flat.
The guy sanded the floor back to 80 grit and then put on two coats of oil, first coat day one, second coat plus buffing day two. He told us it had a 24 hours drying time. We waiting for 48 hours then covered it up with loose vinyl to protect it while the new kitchen was fitted.
On Christmas day we lifted the vinyl and while it looked great - beautiful colour, mid sheen - it immediately became apparent something was very wrong - a tiny splash of water, no matter how quickly wiped up, a sweaty-socked foot, left a grey mark on the wood that wouldn't buff out. We covered it back up to prevent any more damage and let the floor guy know there was a problem.
On Monday the floor guy came back out. He said the problem was that the floor needed 6 days to cure and so when we covered it up something went wrong with the cure hence problems. This was the first cure time was mentioned. This led me to google the technical sheet for the oil. I noticed it said three not two coats of oil for high traffic areas; that it said 16 hours before buffing and 6 days cure.
So, to fix the job, the floor guy sanded the floor with a small hand sanding machine to get the marks out and put another single coat of oil on. We have dutifully left it the six days.
It now looks dull, patchy and even walking on it in socks leaves dull marks and the water problem still seems to be present although not as badly. I asked the floor guy and he has kindly suggested he come back out and buff it but I am not sure this will fix it as you can see the difference in sheen in the corners where the original finish was compared with where he has sanded it back - much shinier originally - which makes me wonder is there enough oil on the floor?
So what I'm wondering is -
a) does the floor really need another coat of oil given it's high traffic and still is marking (it had two, was sanded back and then another one)
b) was the problem caused by the cure issue and if so why is it happening again or
c) was it to do with buffing too soon and basically buffing the oil back off?
We really need to get this sorted out as everytime another coat goes on that's another six days out of the kitchen but I am concerned that we *still* have a problem and buffing it is possibly not the answer and I don't want the guy to buff it if that's not going to solve the problem and possibly we need another coat of oil on.....but I don't know enough about it. Any advice would really be appreciated.
Can anyone help?
Thanks
Mu
