Colours on Soft Pine...
Details on changing the pine floor colour from a natural finish.
Every soft pine floor when finished with a clear varnish or lacquer differ in colour, tone and shade, due to the era, type of pine, place of origin and the direction the timber was first sawn and prepared.
While most are are happy with the natural finish, especially once coated with Bona Kemi lacquer, enhancing the grain and beautiful colours, it is sometimes requested that we dial out the unpopular “orangey-look”, unfortunately related to a certain types of pine.
Alternatively, there may be a colour change in attempt to match a piece of furniture, a preferred design within a magazine, or sheer preference to re-design the room for a personal feel.
There are two ways of changing the colour of your pine boards, firstly with coloured lacquer/varnish to alter the tones, often used to disguise the “orangey-look”, thus warming the room, though only medium tones are best applied this way. Don’t worry you needn’t make a decision at this time as you can wait until after the first clear primer coat has been applied to evaluate how the natural tone will appear.
Deep, darker and definite colours however, benefit immensly from being applied as a dye or stain, directly to the fresh bare newly sanded timber. This unfortunately requires over night drying time and will affect the cost considerably more than using coloured lacquer. Should you not be ready to make a decision at this stage, both options can be disgussed with the technicians once on site.
(customer is required to be in attendance to make these decisions)
Masking skirting boards is a neccessary procedure...
PLEASE NOTE: With all types of colour applications there is a need to mask the skirting boards to avoid discoloration. Unfortunately, most decorated skirtings have been poorly prepared, more often
than not you will experience a poor standard of ‘keyed’
surfaces before priming etc. Because of this there is a
good chance that our masking tape could remove some
paint upon removal.
Although this is unpreventable, should you be decorating
over the same period as the floors being prepared, it is
advisable to leave the final two coats until after the floors
are complete.
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