A quality furniture is one of the best investments you can make at home. Therefore, it is important to properly care for it. Depending on the type of wood will care.
Enhance your furniture shine: . To see if your furniture has an oily finish (rub, in a part that is not seen, a few drops of linseed oil on wood If absorbed, the wood has oil finish, if you run the drop in the surface, has a rigid finish). To identify a rigid finish, rub in a circular motion acetone.
The lacquer is dissolved in 30 seconds; varnish becomes chewy and with a gelatinous consistency after a two minute finishing polyester polythene does see to acetone and water.
The lacquer is dissolved in 30 seconds; varnish becomes chewy and with a gelatinous consistency after a two minute finishing polyester polythene does see to acetone and water.
So oily finish furniture, greased with special oils available on the market.
You can rub freely, leaving them for a few hours and then polishing them until gleaming wood exposed.
The highly polished wood usually polished with paste wax (on one side and by the other polishing wax).
The satin finish is clean with cream or wax polish with a soft cloth.
Your furniture need great care, still shake and polish regularly, need to be in the right environment, they are not exposed to natural enemies of furniture.
Enemies of the furniture
Moisture: Wood absorbs moisture easily and then dries as quickly. Example: An environmental temperature favors (30 to 40 percent moisture) reduces dryness and the re-release of the joints.
The parquet: If you have floorboards or parquet floors, leave the room a container of water Example: a vase, which will decorate the place.
To hydrate the wood furniture: Apply wax every 15 days. For not dry out from the heat, put a humidifier for a few minutes a day and place various plants with good moist soil.
Heat: The experts say that the ideal furniture for wooden furniture indoor temperature is between 68-79 F.
The sun's rays: Ultraviolet rays take away the shine and fade furniture. So avoid placing furniture where the sun will come directly. As for the artificial light, halogen bulbs are really hot. Put light dimmers.
Brands of glasses: To remove marks from wet glasses, on a wooden surface, rub with a cork stopper, previously smeared with linseed oil. Then wipe with a dry cloth. You can also rub with ashes or cigarette with a light mayonnaise.
Small scratches: Rub with the mass of a walnut, bitumen paste or a wood-like color. Another trick is to take a few drops of cod liver oil, let it soak and then wipe with a cloth.
Bamboo furniture: To ensure they have a special glow sufficient to pass occasionally half a lemon over the entire surface. When your wicker furniture and rattan are impregnated with dust, clean them: Prepare in a container warm soapy water and add it to this a little vinegar.
Bamboo Maintenance: Wash with a wet brush chairs in a solution of soapy water carefully. Rinse with a damp cloth and let them dry in the shade. If over time have obscured, apply hot water and bleach; Let them dry in the sun. Then protect them with a coat of linseed oil to moisturize your fiber.
Remove labels on furniture, plastic and glass: When the sticker is peeled off a piece of furniture, often left traces of glue on the wood. Avoid it by applying heat from a hair dryer on the label.
Cigarette burns: To repair, dip a cotton swab in polish remover and gently wipe the place. Then using a flexible plastic (like the credit cards) remove any dark residue. Then proceed to decrease the footprint with bitumen.
Suede furniture: If, over the years a thick wax on your furniture shape, drop a few drops of turpentine and rub vigorously with a cotton cloth. Allow to dry thoroughly, then wipe with a dry cloth.
Dirt flies: Rub the furniture with alcohol and ether in equal parts and pat dry.
White wood or untreated
Cleaning: Remove dust from the surface and wipe with a cloth moistened with water.
Clarifies color: Gently wipe soaked in bleach and repeat once the wood has dried.
Grease spot: Sprinkle talcum powder, thanks to its absorbency removes all traces of grease.
Mancha Alcohol: Wash quickly with a brush and soapy water and allow it to dry.
Mancha wax: Remove carefully with a knife and then polish the area with fine sandpaper, can coat the stain with table salt and rub with a damp cork. Then remove the salt with clean water.
The beer gets oak furniture: Use a mixture of 400 ml. Beer, 2 tablespoons sugar and melted wax, bee well scrambled. Apply and when dry rub with a chamois-It gives a florid appearance to oak furniture.
Avoid woodworm in furniture
1-If you have a chest of carmona, must apply to the holes, using a syringe, formalin, and then cover with paste wax.
2-Rub the furniture in the affected area for several days, with half an onion.
3-Inject a solution composed of an ounce of corrosive sublimate, 100 gr. Alcohol and a pint of water.Woodworm is the waste produced by termites.
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