Browse Forums Flooring & Floor Covering 1 Jun 12, 2011 8:24 pm Hello all, I have floating timber floorsboard in my house. They are currently in a matte finish, we would like to recoat them in a nice high gloss. Can I simply apply a high gloss varnish style coating? Can anyone suggest a product? Thanks Mike Re: Floating Timber Floors - Recoating Gloss question 2Jun 12, 2011 8:43 pm Very tricky job. You can definitely not apply a solvent based polyurethane of any sort (tung oils etc). The only real option is something like a water based polyurethane (Bona) with a cross linker (a binding agent). It also depends on what the floor has been cleaned with, if it has been some wax like product (Gemini) etc then you could have all sorts of problems. Thanks Simon, I guess I'm no concerned with the volume of the noise rather that dead and hollow sound and feel that is associated with floating floors. But I'm not sure… 3 6165 Thanks, that's the motivation I needed to give it a try sooner rather than one day! 4 3021 To put anything over slate you will need to put self level compound over the entire area as slate various in thickness and is very un even. To install most types of… 1 419 |