Osmo Polyx and hall floor renovation

Participant · 4 Jan 2019 at 22:30

1st coat down this evening. Still wet.

Participant · 5 Jan 2019 at 11:37

First coat dry. Looks nice, but a little streaky. Hoping second coat evens it up.

ANDARIAL · 5 Jan 2019 at 12:15

Looking good m8

eviled · 6 Jan 2019 at 11:27

looks great, don't they recommend a light hand sand before final coat on the tin, to reduced streaks?

Participant · 6 Jan 2019 at 11:46

Second and final coat down and dry. Threshold bars replaced and furniture back. All done apart from a dust and hoover.

I think it looks a lot better than the previous varnish stuff. The pics don't really do it justice.

eviled said:
looks great, don't they recommend a light hand sand before final coat on the tin, to reduced streaks?

It doesn't mention it as far as I could see, but I did a light 150 grit sand before the second coat anyway. Here's the tin if anyone's interested:

eviled · 6 Jan 2019 at 12:22

ah, maybe it was a youtube tutorial I watched when I did mine.

I got zero streaks applying with a sponge floor mop

Buffman · 6 Jan 2019 at 13:27

Looks like a good job!

Are you going to fill under the door architraves? Blokes that did my floor cut mine out more than necessary but a bit of filler made it look neater.

Participant · 6 Jan 2019 at 13:34

The Craig said:
Looks like a good job!

Are you going to fill under the door architraves? Blokes that did my floor cut mine out more than necessary but a bit of filler made it look neater.

Yeah I'll be getting that done when we have the hall stairs and landing redecorated in the spring. Did you use filler for all of the gap, or put some wood in to fill most of the gap first? What filler did you use, just something like Ronseal wood filler?

Buffman · 6 Jan 2019 at 13:59

Participant said:
Yeah I'll be getting that done when we have the hall stairs and landing redecorated in the spring. Did you use filler for all of the gap, or put some wood in to fill most of the gap first? What filler did you use, just something like Ronseal wood filler?

Yeah think i used standard polycell multi fill

Issue is it might crack slightly with expansion etc but generally unnoticeable. Alternative would be red devil foam filler but I think as you've got fairly big gaps I'd go with a standard one.

sja360 · 19 Apr 2019 at 22:52

Hey a bit of a revival here but looking to use the osmo polyx tint and then the semi matt, 1 coat of each.

I wanted to know how long after the final coat can I put furniture etc back in the room as it mentioned not putting rugs or mats but nothing else

Mark A · 20 Apr 2019 at 00:24

@sja360 looking at the pic of the tin it seems it'll be fully hardened in 2-3 weeks. So you could probably put furniture back before then, but I wouldn't drag it around. You could buy them felt pads that stick on the feet to be safe.