Despite the growing popularity of plastic structures, many owners of houses and apartments prefer wooden windows. In terms of quantity, they are not inferior to polymeric products. Designs made of natural wood have high indicators of strength and sound insulation, low thermal conductivity, attractive appearance. Thanks to its natural origin, they do not pose health hazards. How to care and paint wooden windows will tell in this article.
Preparatory stage
Wooden frames under the influence of various factors lose their aesthetic appearance and periodically need staining. From the outside, they are subjected to such atmospheric influences as ultraviolet rays, rain and snow. And from the side of the room, the layer of paint comes into disrepair as a result of contact with condensate, dry air and a higher temperature level. In addition, the wood material is amazed by fungus, mold and various pests. Avoiding such consequences will help painting wooden windows in accordance with certain rules.
The result of work depends on several factors:
- One of them is weather conditions. For painting you need to pick up a suitable day without hot sun, snow and rain.
- So that the windows of the wood dried well, the temperature should be no lower than 5 ° C, and the level of humidity is not higher than 80%.
- If you paint the wet frame, then it is subsequently formed bubbles and paint will have to be applied again.
The thermal insulation properties of wooden windows as a result of the influence of external factors can decrease. In the process of preparing for staining, you can solve this problem. If the windows fumbled, sealing will need. This procedure is performed in several ways.
One of them is the preliminary applying of the sealing agent, and installing glass on it. But for this, the glass must be removed from the frame, which can be a certain inconvenience.
There is a simpler method - sealing with window dressing. In this case, it will not be necessary to remove the glass, but the thermal insulation of the window will be worse. Consider the features of the process in more detail:
- For this purpose, you can use melted paraffin. This material must first warm up to a temperature of 60 ° C, then dial it into the syringe and fill the slots.
- After soaring the paraffin, its surplus is removed.
- Before painting wooden windows, make sure that the frame is well closed.
- If difficulties arose with this, a drill equipped with a special nozzle or grinding machine would help correct the situation.
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Cleaning from the old coating
The necessary stage of preparatory work is to remove the old layer of painting. You can do this in two methods:
- chemical;
- thermal.
The first option involves the use of a special fluid, which is not difficult to find in the auto shop. The use of this tool significantly accelerates the preparation of frames to staining.
To remove the previous layer of paint thermally needed an industrial hairdryer. The set temperature should not exceed 250 ° C, otherwise wood will lose its operational properties. Do not try to use household hair dryer for this purpose, because It is not able to give the desired temperature.
Deleting paint is performed as follows:
- With the help of a hair dryer, sections are processed 30CC until the colored layer starts to be bubble.
- Further paint is considered a spatula.
- Also for this purpose also use sandpaper with large grain and scraper.
Folding and accessories are desirable to remove. This will give the opportunity to save their appearance after the end of the work. If it is problematic then they need to be saved by painting scotch, to protect paint from accidental entering. Glass needed in such protection. They are also needed on the sides to dry the scotch at a distance of 2 mm from the edge. Former headquarters can be changed on new elements, painting that follows separately from the frame.
Antiseptic processing
Before painting wooden windows, they must be treated with an antiseptic agent. This is one of the most important stages of preparation. Raw frames may be subjected to rotting, forming fungus and insect appearance. Then you need to scream all the slots and potholes. The processing process has its own characteristics:
- This work is performed in several approaches, because if you apply a thick layer of a mixture for putty, then it can disappear with the paint.
- Processing the frame should be a special acrylic putty on the tree.
- When staining, the mixture is simply applied to the surface.
- If the window is assumed to be covered with a mourn, the putty predeter must be painted using a coller in the color of wood, otherwise the shaded slots will be noticeable.
Putty and priming
The composition for climbing chosel and cracks can be made independently. To do this, it is necessary to mix very small wood sawdust, which are still called wood flour with epoxy resin or glue. The putty is applied in several stages:
- After the first processing, the surface must be cleaned with sandpaper, pollute and clean from dust using a wet vet.
- Next, you should wait 1-2 hours to the composition of the back.
- Then using fine-grained sandpaper, the surface must be aligned and removed dust.
- If necessary, the following layer of the mixture is applied.
- The procedure is repeated until an absolutely reasonable basis is formed.
The next phase of preparation is the deposition of a soil composition. Modern primers form a protective transparent film that allows you to preserve the natural pattern of the tree and simultaneously performs the task of the antiseptic. It is important to use the type of wood, since this mixture contributes to the preservation of the wood structure. The primer manufactures on the basis of resins, oils, pigments and glue.
Important! Before applying the composition, the surface must be carefully cleaned and degreased. To work with the primer it is better to use a brush. The stratum must dry well.
Rules for the preparation of colorful composition
The paint for wooden windows should have such properties as: elasticity, moisture resistance, the ability to resist the effects of ultraviolet rays. Contact with moisture is extremely undesirable for frames of wood. It can provoke the formation of rot and mold. The paint possessing moisture resistant qualities creates a protective layer and prevents the penetration of water into the material.
Wooden frame is prone to swelling and shrinkage. Elastic colorful composition will allow preserving the integrity of the design during the process of processes. All the necessary qualities have alkyd and water-cellular enamels. Such products produced foreign and domestic producers, the main difference is the cost of paint.
Important! It is impossible to paint the wooden frames with bitumen-vinyl and bitumen-epoxy enamels, bitumen varnishes and facade perchlorvinyl paints.
Carefully approach and choose color. Here you need to proceed from the location of the window. The process has such features:
- If the window most of the time is in the shade, you can choose any color in accordance with your own preferences.
- For windows located on the sunny side, only light shades will be suitable, which will reflect the sun's rays and thereby prevent the ray of the frame.
- Climatic conditions and type of wood should be taken into account, from which the window is made.
- Choosing color is important to remember and about sleep. Their staining allows you to improve the entry of light into the room. To get intensive lighting you need to use light tones.
- Internal slopes are painted with enamel paints that reflect the light well. And the surface covered with them is easily cleaned by contamination.
- For external slopes, it is recommended to use oil paints, which include olif.
- Before using paint, it is recommended to dilute. Often the feasibility of this procedure is questionable. This necessity is due to the fact that paint in most cases has a thick consistency, and when applied to the surface it will not lie smoothly.
- To achieve a qualitative result, the colorful composition must be diluted with solvent. But it is not necessary to immediately breed all the paint in the bank. In order to prevent errors, you should first pour a small amount of the composition and dissolve it with a solvent. This will help determine the correct consistency.
- The paint is also recommended to be filtered through a sieve, it will allow separating small lumps.
Painting wooden windows do it yourself
It will take:
- malyary Scotch;
- painting brush;
- rag;
- sandpaper with small and large grains;
- putty;
- sub-seven;
- white Spirit;
- dye.
The first layer should be watery than the following to impregnate all the pores and irregularities. Therefore, a certain amount of paint needs to be diluted separately. For applying the composition, a brush or roller is used. After the first staining, the layer must dry and only after that you can continue to work. Three layers are usually applied, but if the preparatory actions were fulfilled in compliance with all rules, it can be limited to two.
In order for no paint flux for the subsequent layers should be curly than for the first. If it was not possible to avoid these defects, you need to immediately wait for drying to remove them with a rubber moistened in the solvent. If the drips are not eliminated all the work will have to repeat first. In the process of work, the brush in the paint is placed only by half.
Important! It is recommended to prepare several pieces of brushes: large are used to apply paint to smooth surfaces, and small suitable for processing hard-to-reach places. It is better to give preference to a flat brush with a width of up to 5 cm.
First of all, the outer side of the window is painted. You need to paint in the direction of the tree fibers. Correct the angles by making short brush strokes. Scotch must be removed immediately at the end of work. Because if it is done after the paint dries can damage the finish. And to install back accessories, you need to wait for a complete drying.
Do not close the window immediately after staining, you need to wait some time. In the reverse case, the paint can stick. You can prevent this with aluminum foil, which is placed between the sash.
Finishing windows in a wooden house by Morilka
Morilka is a liquid impregnation for wood. It allows you to emphasize the texture of the tree and change its tone. For example, a pine that has passed such processing is difficult to distinguish from oak. In addition to increasing the aesthetic indicators of wood, the use of simulat and other advantages. The composition deeply penetrates into the material, increasing its resistance to ultraviolet and preventing rotting. With the help of modern verses, wood can be painted in any color. These compositions on oil alcohol and water based are manufactured. The most convenient in work due to the ability is evenly applied to the oil fluid.
Alcohol and water formulations have some disadvantages. The impregnations on the alcohol solution dries very quickly, the result of which is the appearance of spots. In addition, they will need a pneumatic or hand-painted spray.
When using water impregnations, wood fibers rise, which makes the material more susceptible to moisture. Before applying such a verse, the surface of the wooden frame must be wetted and after speaking some time. Weeping impregnations in powdered form (such compositions need to be breeded with water), as well as in the ready-to-use state.
Conclusion
The windows of natural wood have a significant amount of advantages. But over time, they are lost their operational qualities. Painting of old wooden windows will make them more attractive, will prevent the appearance of fungal diseases, mold and parasites, and will also increase the heat-insulating characteristics of the structure.
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