As the title suggests, I've never seen this before and was so surprised to have come across this.
This flooring was sent all the way over from Brazil and was laid nicely, however, for the protection it was covered with plastic sheeting with the intention of keeping it from being damaged.
Unfortunately, when the covering was lifted it removed all of the floor coatings, and to make things worse it left an imprint throughout the whole room and every room that had been fitted upstairs.
In other words a complete disaster, I was asked if I could do anything with this? And I thought to myself do I need a headache? No, I didn't I suggested that a flooring company could sand off the surface and refinish it. A major project and the colour would have to be matched exactly.
I was surprised as to why the flooring manufacturer did not stain the wood first and then coat it over with several layers of lacquer to avoid this happening. Instead of just spray colouring the flooring I guess it must be easier for them.
The picture shows builders footprints and the manufacturers warning about the fact that the covering must be removed within thirty days.
What I think caused the damage, and why the film covering stuck so hard, was due to the extreme heat that we have had recently in the UK. And as the room windows had no covering to stop the strong sunlight coming through and this led to the room temperature rising extensively and baked the coating onto the floor lacquer.
There is a lesson to be learnt here, don't use plastic film in hot environments, for a few pounds extra, Correx covering would have protected the flooring and as it's a little thicker this might have kept the Sun back.
I have worked on floor damage before, but on this occasion, I decided this was going to be too much for me. A wise decision I feel.
Someone will have a large headache sorting this out.
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If you remember this make of furniture then you have been in the furniture business for a very long time now, I used to work on this furniture back in the 70s.
The make/range of this furniture is called Stag, now that it's come back to you hasn't it.
I never liked working on Stag furniture why I hear you ask. Well, it was I think the hardest colour to touch up due to the graining and the amount of sprayed on colours, which made it very difficult to make good any marks or scratches.
As you can see from the pictures and the poor state of this chest of drawers it definitely needs my attention.
After stripping off the entire surface finish, I sanded down by going through the various sandpaper grades, to achieve a super smooth surface.
As I stated earlier this is extremely difficult to replicate the original colour, lucky for me I found in my wood finishing store cupboard a bottle that had been there for years, I had no idea what was in it, so I shook up the bottle and tested the stain on some timber and a miracle happened it was absolutely perfect, I could never have matched this colour or it would have taken me ages to do so.
With my spirits lifted, I went ahead and stained the unit, and once it had dried out, it was then time for me to apply several spray lacquer coats as it had been finished that way when it was made.
I am so pleased with the way this unit came out, and better still my customer was delighted with my work.
Quality workmanship once again, thanks for visiting my Blogsite.
These garage doors were in a dreadful condition, and with the wood surface being so uneven, it was too difficult to achieve a flat surface that could have been stained and varnished as was first intended.
Therefore, I had to paint the doors to cover up the stubborn varnish that could not be got at with my sander.
My client chose the paint colour, and as you can see, has really made a great improvement.
It seems even no matter how difficult a job can be, there's always a way to accomplish a fantastic finish.
As you can now see, just how bad a condition the doors were in, the one on the left is after I have scraped and sanded off the surface. And the right-hand door has peeling coloured varnish.
After a wash down of the framework, and a touch up of the hinges makes for a clean and tidy finish. The rotten beading's have been cut level ready for replacement in due course.
As I have stated before, if you can polish you can and should be able to paint.
Another mission impossible job completed. Why do I get hard jobs?
