Overview of impregnation for wooden furniture

The quality of furniture depends not only on the type of wood. All production options are taken into account, including natural factors, temperature conditions of manufacture, material moisture and impregnation of furniture parts. It is not at all safe to store and use furniture at home, as the environment can cause permanent damage to furniture. A fungus may start due to high humidity, or, conversely, the product dries and cracks.

Content:

• Refractory Impregnation
• Mold treatment
• Furniture protection against smoke fungus
• Moisture resistant impregnation
• Protection against parasitic beetles
• Proper care and prevention for furniture
• Oil Based Impregnation
• Creating an antique look
• Impregnation for children's furniture

In bathrooms, baths, steam rooms, it is recommended to treat the furniture with special compounds that prevent the formation of mold. Thanks to special impregnations for wood, it is possible to protect furniture from infection by a fungus, improve the aesthetic appearance of products, eliminate defects or perform several protective properties at once.

Refractory Impregnation

Products from wood and its derivatives are combustible materials. To protect the wood from sudden fire, it is necessary to increase its refractory qualities. To do this, use special compounds that resist fire, refractory impregnations. Such events must be held in houses with stove heating, in baths and saunas with electric heating. Standardly, a wooden surface is treated several times, at least 2 times, and each layer is responsibly dried.

Various means are used as refractory compositions, including stationery glue or liquid glass mixed with a small amount of aluminum powder. There are many combinations for the production of such compositions:

• liquid glass is diluted with part of the water, talc and pulverulent feldspar.
• several parts of water glass, water, spar and zinc white.
• ammonium sulfate is diluted with sodium phosphate and water.
• pentachlorophenol is diluted with water, with the addition of borax and boric acid.
• impregnated with ammonium sulfate diluted in water.
• to prepare the impregnation, borax and boric acid are mixed.

Such compositions not only protect against fire, but also prevent the occurrence of smoke mold.

Mold treatment

It is customary to process furniture with such compounds if it has been used for a long time in a humid environment. For example, in baths, saunas, indoor pools and bathrooms. To prepare the mixture, several parts of copper sulfate and potassium dichromate diluted in water are used.

Excellent protection is shown by a solution of magnesium silicofluoride or a solution of sodium fluoride. The easiest way is to prepare a protective impregnation for furniture, using ordinary copper sulfate, diluted in water. It is important to treat the wooden surface of the furniture with these compounds several times, and it is recommended to apply on a clean, dry surface.

Each coat must be thoroughly dried before applying the next coat.

A standard brush with hard hair is used as standard. Such compositions will protect wooden furniture from the formation of fungus and mold.

Furniture protection against smoke fungus

Smoke fungus is a type of mold, which in nature is enormous. Where air humidity prevails above ninety percent, there is a risk of such parasitic mold. Shaggy wood acts on the affected wood, reminiscent of puffs of smoke.

White formations blacken over time, indicating a complete defeat of the tree. At the same time, it is useless to fight the fungus, when it has already penetrated the wood, the protection had to be carried out in advance. Sometimes a smoke mycelium can acquire cotton-like formations with a beautiful smoky color, capable of hitting anything from a tree: a table, a bed chair, etc.

White molds of one type of mushroom can change to gray with the formation of porous inclusions on the surface of the tree. Having impregnated wood with resins, saline solutions, applying varnish, primer and paint to the surface, you will not perform protection against the formation of fungus. Only impregnations with pentachlorophenol can protect furniture from this damage.

Today, there are many impregnations on the paint market with the addition of sodium pentachlorophenol or its derivatives. A treated table with such a composition will last forever.

Moisture resistant impregnation

A decrease in the hygroscopicity function can be achieved if the wooden table is treated with a special compound that is sold in stores. After processing, such furniture will not absorb moisture, and therefore will not swell and deteriorate.

The cost of such impregnations is not so high, but you can save and prepare the solution yourself. In fact, there are many options and recipes, and they all perfectly perform their protective functions.

For instance:

1. Several parts of common drying oil are mixed with paraffin and turpentine. Paraffin is introduced into a heated drying oil and diluted with turpentine. Such a mixture can be prepared in large quantities and heated before use. A table or chair is impregnated with several layers several times with drying of each layer during the day.
2. Drying oil is mixed with several parts of the wax, preheated. Apply to the wooden surface of the table in several layers.
3. Drying oil is mixed with kerosene without heating and impregnated with the composition of the wood several times with a drying interval of 3-5 hours.
4. Drying oil is mixed with nitro-lacquer, getting an excellent mixture at the output to protect the table and give decorative qualities.

After processing, any paint, including oil, can be applied to the furniture surface.

Protection against parasitic beetles

Parasitic beetles willingly damage old furniture, destroying the physical properties of wood. Beetle larvae gnaw in a tree ditch, eating them, and beetles themselves lay larvae on old wood.

You can protect furniture from being destroyed by insects using an aqueous solution of sodium fluoride, which is applied to the surface with a brush. Similarly, you can use the drug "Drevotoks", which effectively copes with various parasites. Processing the table with solutions is carried out several times in several layers.

Note that even processed wood needs care, and if furniture is taken care of periodically, it will not cease to fulfill its functions for a long time and will please with novelty. No matter what you covered the table with: oil, wax or impregnation, you need to do this regularly.

Proper care and prevention for furniture

In any hardware store you will find many racks with protective equipment for furniture care. Polishes and impregnations appear on the market of paints and varnishes monthly. Despite the different names, they contain the same substances that can protect the table, cover it with a layer from scratches and damage.

A synthetic resin and solvent based polish is an inexpensive care product. The substance is able to give shine to the product and clean it of accumulated dirt. Typically, such funds are applied using a spray, protecting the respiratory system from the ingress of matter into the body.

To provide furniture with a long-term esthetic appearance, polish is applied on the surface varnished. If the substance gets on furniture treated with oil paint, white spots form on the surface, which will be problematic to remove. Over time, the polish will be erased and the protective layer will be broken, so this procedure should be carried out regularly.

Oil Based Impregnation

The use of natural components to protect wood - oils - is aimed at giving shine and novelty to products, both new and old. Furniture covered with oil is treated once every six months, a year. Such impregnation allows you to strengthen the old protective layer of varnish through the formation of a thin film on the surface.

The use of wax polishes as universal protective agents is applied to any furniture, including one that has a protective wax layer. Additional waxing and polishing renew the appearance of the shelves, creating a shine on the surface. As soon as it becomes visually noticeable that the wax coating is broken, it is worth carrying out restoration work to protect. Wax polish is applied in the usual way to the surface and triturated.

It is worth noting that all methods are aimed only at restoring furniture, and complete resuscitation is carried out by removing a layer of wax, appropriate processing of furniture and applying a new coating.

Creating an antique look

Vintage and Provence styles imply aging in the appearance of the interior. Some designers deliberately add antique aging to furniture, adding value. This effect can be achieved with paint or physically age furniture with an abrasive compound.

You can artificially age any furniture in various ways, but using acrylic and varnish is much easier to do. The effect of antiquity and faded wooden shelving can be achieved by applying color schemes of the same key. The standard color is white, which is tinted with additives.

This is done very simply. It is enough to apply the dark color of the paint to the wood surface cleaned from dirt, previously primed, and after drying the layer, apply a second light layer. After drying completely with sanding, wipe off the white layer a little until a slightly dark color appears.

After processing with sandpaper, cover the product with a thin layer of varnish. If you apply varnish and acrylic paint, you can achieve the effect of cracked furniture. To do this, first of all, it is necessary to apply varnish and immediately, without allowing it to dry, put a layer of acrylic paint. Cracking will occur after drying due to the fact that the time interval for drying of the compositions varies, and a network of cracks forms on the entire surface.

Impregnation for children's furniture

Particular attention should be paid to paints and impregnations for the arrangement of children's rooms, furniture processing in child care facilities, camps, kindergartens and nurseries. The paint for such objects is chosen very carefully, taking into account all the possible nuances. For canteens, such paint compositions are chosen that are easily treatable with chemicals that are immune to water. After wiping away the residues of cereal and stains from juice, the furniture should not lose its appearance, therefore, it is necessary to ensure resistance to detergents.

A separate material contains information that will help determine how to paint a crib.

An important factor is the environmental friendliness of the components for wood processing. The composition should not cause irritation on the skin of children and fully comply with all quality standards of child care facilities.Paint manufacturers will assure you of the safety of using certain formulations, but it will not be superfluous to get to know the manufacturer better and read the instructions. In recommendations for the use of paint, it should be indicated that the contents are one hundred percent neutral. As a standard, such products are accompanied by an appropriate quality certificate.

In conclusion, it is worth noting that today a large number of components with antibacterial properties are produced. Most often, silver is present in the composition, and the paint itself performs antibacterial protection. Children's furniture should be different originality, and if you apply a special slate paint, then the furniture will perform the functions of magnetization. Thus, on furniture you can draw and easily wash drawings, cling magnets like a refrigerator.

As you can see, there are a lot of options for impregnation for furniture, shelving, and they are all sold freely on the construction market.