Wooden floors can undergo treatments aimed at varying their aesthetic, morphological and chromatic qualities to better adapt them to the environment in which they are installed and to the taste of those who will live in or have those spaces.
TREATMENTS ON RAW TABLE
Natural : The wood is not treated. Leaving the wood natural means aspiring to create a floor that can fully express the inherent qualities of the wood essence.
Evaporated : The evaporated boards are subjected to the action of saturated steam at a temperature of about 100 ° when the wood is still green. This procedure is used to change the color of some wood species. Evaporated acacia is a very popular material for floors.
Thermo-firing : The boards are literally “cooked” in special ovens at temperatures of about 200 ° in order to darken and strengthen the wood through a thermal process. The heat-firing process increases the stability of the wood, making it more resistant to moisture and torsion.
SURFACE TREATMENTS
Brushing : Brushing is a treatment to highlight the grain of a wooden floor. To obtain this result, the floorboards are passed with special metal brushes that highlight the grain of the wood.
Accented brushing : This treatment is carried out to prepare the table for pickling. The softer part of the wood is removed, again with brushes, letting the vein most resistant to trampling emerge.
Hand planing : This is a completely handcrafted process that gives the wooden floor an elegant look and increases its value. The small irregularities of a manual planing are essential to obtain maximum customization from your wooden floor. It can be lightly hand-crafted by creating small and delicate waves on the woody surface. Or on rustic boards with large and evident knots, we usually work with a hand planing against the grain.
Machine planing : The machine planed boards are uniform and perfectly regular, machined by numerically controlled machines, they form homogeneous and perfectly balanced wooden floors.
Sanding : the sanding operation is performed using special brushes that smooth the boards and remove a first woody layer.
THE FINISHES
Oiling : Oiling a wooden floor ensures that the floor acquires better stability and resistance to temperature changes. Solvent-free and completely natural oils penetrate the essence, nourishing and protecting the fiber.
Varnishing : The varnishing completely closes the pores of the wood, waterproofing the surface and making it more suitable for environments such as bathrooms and kitchens. Once treated, they do not require any maintenance.
Pickling : Pickling a wooden floor means making the grain stand out clearly from the substrate. Passing in the lime and making it adhere well to the boards by drying in the oven: this ensures that the veins remain much more marked than the rest of the board. It can also be obtained with an accentuated manual brushing and in a varnish, widely used for oak floors.
Tint : The painting operation protects the wood and assigns the desired color to the floor boards. You can dye the wood as you like, for example: olive brown, white and even metallic.
Whitening : To whiten a wooden floor, oil or a white paint is applied to the surface. Working on the shade of the paint it is possible to obtain more or less intense effects of white, up to ice white, and work on the sand-colored shades.
PICKLED FINISH
There are many chromatic shades to experiment with, but white or the natural color of the wood stands out among the most frequent choices. Specifically pickling derives from the French verb décaper, which means “to free a surface from impurity or from the coating layer”.
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BRUSHED FINISH
The brushed wooden floor is easy to clean, like all other types of parquet, but in this case it is also advisable to use an electric broom to vacuum the dust, wipe with a well-wrung damp cloth, using the products recommended.
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WHITENED FINISH
There are various types of bleached oak parquet. The two main colors are bleached and snow bleached: the first undergoes a lighter bleaching, keeping part of the initial shade of the oak, while in the second the process is more marked, essentially neutralizing the color to bring out the white effect. .
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MATT FINISH
The matte finish has good coverage, masks imperfections, evens surface irregularities and gives a dusty and velvety appearance is ideal for decorative objects or interior furniture is ideal for the ceiling and for spaces with less intense passage such as the bedrooms; it is less durable and more difficult to maintain it has little or no shine, so it does not increase the brightness of the environment.
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LACQUER FINISH
Glossy lacquer: it is brushed so that it reflects light like a mirror and gives brightness to the environment
Matt lacquer: it is the non-shiny color finish, timeless for its elegance, often used to create movement with visual detachments in wooden kitchens
Super matt lacquer: it is a particularly matt varnish with a superficial hand that makes it velvety to the touch
Lacquered metal effect: the surface lacquering, containing particles of real metal, is scratched by hand and then protected with a coat of transparent varnish, to obtain the metal effect, very trendy in the furniture sector.
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ANTIQUE FINISH
When we talk about the wearing effect, we are referring to a particular procedure, used to give a wooden object the lived and ancient look, typical of objects worn out by time and wear. At a time when new and immaculate furniture dominates the houses created by architects and designers, the beauty of owning unique objects is being rediscovered, capable of transmitting the warmth that only an article capable of telling a story knows. give away.
However, it is not always possible to find vintage items on the market and, for this reason, you can recreate the effect of aged wood furniture. In this short and simple guide, I will provide some useful tips for making wood surfaces with a wear effect.
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