Floor Varnish Tacky

Whether your varnished wooden surface is a floor door or even a piece of furniture it can easily be fixed to look like new again.

Floor varnish tacky. But first try a deep cleaning. We just had our floors sanded and refinished and they still feel tacky after 12 days. Apply even and full coats of wax floor finish allowing each coat to dry properly and completely before applying another layer pour less solution into your wax applicator mop or put down less floor finish and spread it evenly over a larger area take a look at ourfloor finish application procedure for a step by step process on how to properly put. Although painters sometimes refer to oil or water based polyurethane finishes as varnishes the term varnish usually refers to a clear oil based alkyd finish.

If this has happened to your varnished wood finish you can repair it. If what you ve got is varnish you may ultimately need to strip and redo the finish at some point. Test an inconspicuous area first before tackling the visible surface. Our house is in hawaii at the top of a mountain where the rainfall is very high but i do not know our relative humidity percentage.

When the solvent evaporates all that remains is the pigment and the oil that is. Stain becomes sticky on a wooden surface because it doesn t have a binder such as you find in paint or varnish. Over time the finish of the varnish can start to peel become white and even feel tacky. Finish applied too thickly.

The finish was oil based polyurethane duraseal.