Floor Wax Bubbles

What you ended up with was a floor with permanent streak marks.

Floor wax bubbles.

Use a stack of books to weight it down until it rebonds. A wood floor blisters when swelled areas of varnish take on the appearance of small bubbles. There was a chemical reaction between the floor finish and the rubber backing on the floor mats. Q imported from our old site face lift floors.

Finish is discolored under the floor mats. Extreme temperatures especially in warm southern climates and lack of varnish causes blisters. You want your floor to look shiny and bright so you added wax to the floor hoping for a showroom finish. What causes air bubbles in the floor finish.

I gave extremely sufficient dry time a lot more than usual hours and the weather here was extremely dry sunny. You can t prevent air from escaping from the wood into your wet finish but you can eliminate bubbles caused by your brush. What causes air bubbles. Not allowing the chemicals to evaporate correctly will cause the finish to dry improperly.

Typically this problem happens with faster drying finishes like waterborne but it can happen with any finish in a fast drying condition. The floor is black red v c t. Bubbles in our finish come from one of two places. All are common flaws when polyurethane is applied incor.

Floor mats were placed back on floor before finish had proper time to cure. If you missed the bubbles while the varnish was fresh you may find the finish mottled with tiny craters or hardened bubbles. Then use a towel and a hot iron to heat and flatten the vinyl. Second don t work up a lather by brushing too vigorously.

You can get those in oil modified finishes as well as polyurethane and the reason is usually too rapid drying. In this video i outline three methods for fixing polyurethane bubbles puddles runs and brush marks. For small bubbles an inch or less in diameter use a large needle to prick the bubble allowing the trapped air to escape. It created bubbles and the finish looks sort of curdled and you can even see one area where the finish peeled off.

For larger bubbles use a towel and iron. Similar to what a blister looks like on human skin. It didn t happen until i applied the 2 coat only got worse with the 3rd. This happens to floor finishers who drag the finish applicator aggressively and then must stay off the floor until the finish dries.

I had this happen when i finished some floors yesterday. Pinpoint holes in finish that was not properly applied can cause blistering. First don t use foam brushes as they contain air. Here is the secret for removing bubbles in vinyl flooring.

Air lurking inside the wood or from your brush.