Which floor varnish

[nickldn]

Hi,

I'm about to varnish my wooden floor downstairs - lounge and hallway and need advice as to which varnish to use.

The choices I have are:

Industrial grade varnish with seperate hardner £90 per 5 litres

Johnstones floor varnish £45 per 5 litres

I want to do a proper job and make sure it lasts, but do I really need to industrial varnish in a domestic situation? Will there really be any benefit?

Any advice greately appreciated.

Nick

 

[trotter]

Done my house (pine floors) with hardwaxoil which is superb stuff IMO, looks natural and is plenty tough enough for domestic purposes

Been down 2 years and barely a mark on it, and over time it cures and ages beautifully

 

[joe-90]

Any polyurethane varnish will last for ever (almost)

 

[Robbie uk]

Or you could go the water based route and use Dulux diamond glaze, suposed to be ten times harder than polyurethene.

 

[joe-90]

Or you could go the water based route and use Dulux diamond glaze, suposed to be ten times harder than polyurethene.

It scratches. It's rubbish in my opinion. Polyurethane will last 20 years plus.

 

[Deccy]

Osmo do a good hard wax oil, excellent for floors.

 

[trotter]

Osmo do a good hard wax oil, excellent for floors.

Yep, that's what I used

 

[regsmyth]

Polyurethane is good, but it's getting rarer, because its DANGEROUS, and SMELLY!!
Soon there'll be fighting over the last cans in the backstreet hardware shops....

 

[Robbie uk]

I totally agree with you Joe ! I'm a lover of oil based products and am convinced they give a harder and more durable finish. Water based has its advantages of course. Some peolpe think they are dangerous but thats a load of tripe !!

 

[amatniecins]

Here is the video for floor polishing. How to do it - http://varupats.lv/content/kā-pareizi-noslīpēt-dēļu-grīdu