DIY painting a wooden staircase. Painting a wooden internal staircase and street structure, the choice of paints and varnishes, the selection of the color of steps and balusters How to paint balusters and railings made of wood

Handrail Mount Bracket (Vintage Bronze)

Painting forged balusters for stairs:

The process of painting metal products requires special attention and experience. For our products we have chosen the most modern and reliable way painting - powder. Distinctive feature powder coating is its high quality, long service life, and unique texture. Such results cannot be achieved with a regular brush!

If you try to classify Forged Products offered on the markets today can be divided into 3 main groups:

• Without painting - such a product goes on sale without surface treatment.
• Handicraft painting - products of this type make up more than 95% of all forged products on the market. Their main advantage is cheapness, but the quality leaves much to be desired. The dyeing technology is quite simple - an unpainted part is taken and with the help of a paint and a brush it is given the desired color, therefore, it is up to you to judge the durability and quality of the paint.
• Factory powder coating is currently the most modern technology metal painting. It not only guarantees a long coating life, but also creates a unique surface texture.

Considering all of the above, we strongly recommend that you carefully consider the process of choosing forged products!

Hollow vs. all-metal

What are the differences between a hollow baluster and an all-metal one? It's all about strength and more metal content in the product. If, for example, you need to move a cabinet one floor higher and hit the baluster with it, then the hollow one may deform slightly, while the all-metal one will not suffer.

Photos of finished works

Dimensions of forged parts

"Warehouse of Ladders" offers to buy forged balusters with a height of 1100mm. Thanks to this height, greater comfort and reliability of the structure is achieved, and there is also additional opportunity when developing a staircase design. This size matches international standards Europe and the United States.

Combination of forged and wooden parts in the interior, has always been considered a special chic and was previously found in aristocratic castles and royal palaces.

Forged elements of stairs are easy to install, and the installation algorithm is schematically shown in the picture below.

You can also use a removable radius overlay and create your own drawing, as shown in the photo below.

Another advantage of forged elements of stairs is their ease of installation - the illustration below schematically shows the algorithm for installing a forged baluster.

Internal staircase - functional element and a noticeable accent in the interior of the house. Most often it is built from pine wood. The task of the designer is to make the architectural component harmoniously blend into the setting and perform its tasks as long as possible. For this, a pine staircase is treated with special agents and painted in accordance with the general design.

What are the advantages of making pine stairs

When building and finishing budget wooden houses solid pine is used. This wood is not as durable as oak, cedar or larch, but it is quite durable, more common, cheap and affordable. Pine ate better because it has a denser texture and much fewer knots that reduce the strength of the lumber.

Pine products are distinguished by a pleasant light golden or almost white color and a unique pattern.

Pine has a pleasant light golden or almost white color

Features of pine wood

Pine is a little more difficult to work with than cedar or oak. Softwood requires fine sanding and careful selection of processing tools.

The density of the material depends on the growing conditions of the tree:

• In warm periods, intensively growing fibers form a loose array. Cold years provide hard and dense wood.
• The pine obtained in the mountains has a dense and uniform texture, and that grown on sandy soils - light, loose, fibrous.
• Northern pine is of higher quality than the material obtained in the southern latitudes.

Therefore, most of the resulting lumber does not absorb the processing media evenly. Unsightly stains appear under the transparent coating, which is extremely unpleasant for aesthetic reasons. Resin (resin) contributes to the appearance of color spots on the surface of pine products. If the raw materials are procured in winter period When the bulk of the resin is pumped into the root system by the tree, the fibers remain drier, cleaner and stronger. They absorb the treatment agents evenly. On the wood felled during the spring-summer sap flow, streaks and stains appear. Brought in the warm dry room, it starts to push the resin out.

Internal stair treads are usually built from edged solid board... But often they use glued board, which has greater strength and durability. The difference in the color of the lamellas from which such a board is assembled is especially noticeable. In addition, due to changes in humidity, the lamellas begin to warp over time, and gaps form between them.

On a glued board, the color difference of the lamellas is especially noticeable

If you want to leave the wooden staircase in its original natural color, you will have to use special means processing: primer, mastic, wax, stain. A simpler option is to apply a decorative opaque coating to a pine staircase.

Why do you need to paint in the house

The statement that the tree is beautiful and does not need painting is fundamentally wrong. The wood does look attractive, but it is very vulnerable to insects, mold, hard shoe soles, dirt, fire. Steps wear out especially quickly.

Ladder treads wear out the fastest

Therefore, it is imperative to paint a pine staircase. If you want to see the natural pattern of wood, paint at least with a colorless varnish, but be sure to paint!

The paint creates a hard protective covering, not allowing premature "grind" wood fibers... It is inedible for the bug and unsuitable for the settlement of rot and mold. Impregnations significantly increase protection and extend the service life.

How to paint

For processing pine stairs used:

To get a high-quality and durable coating, cover the wood only with high-quality materials purchased in specialized stores or from manufacturers.

What material for coloring to choose: comparative table

For stairs, use matte or semi-gloss paints. Glossy steps and railings from constant use lose their luster over time and look untidy. You won't be able to quickly refresh the color; you will have to grind and repaint all surfaces.

Materials and tools

• Primer
• Thinner, paint cleaner
• Paint, enamel, varnish
• Wood putty
• Sealant
• Masking tape
• Protective film
• Putty knife
• Napkins, rags, rags
• Scraper
• Grinding tool, sandpaper
• Mini rollers, brushes
• Protective equipment: gloves, respirator ("petal" or others).

How to work with paint or enamel

All work with paints and solvents should be carried out in the warm season to ensure constant ventilation of the room.

Video: How to paint the steps correctly

The procedure for working with varnish

Preparing and covering the stairs with stain + video

1. Perform all preliminary work: protection of adjacent surfaces, cleaning, putty, sealing, sanding.
2. Using a paintbrush, apply the stain one notch. Leave on for 2-3 minutes to absorb. With a dry, lint-free cotton rag, carefully wipe off excess material, running it only in the longitudinal direction.
3. Process all steps, balusters, railings in the same way.
4. If the color of the impregnation is uneven, repeat the treatment. In order for the stain to lay down smoother, not to leave stains, to better emphasize the texture of the wood, moisten the surface with water before applying it. When working with stains, wear rubber gloves, as contact of hands with stained rags is inevitable.

Experiment with the tone on a small, inconspicuous area before staining the entire staircase.

Finishing varnish (with video instructions)

• For stairs, it is advisable to use matte and semi-gloss varnishes. They do not show signs of wear, and the sliding coefficient of the matte surface is lower, which makes the ladder safer.

Wear on a glossy surface looks particularly unsightly

• Combined coating internal staircase can be used combined method... For example, paint the vertical parts of the steps and balusters with paint, and protect the more worn horizontal parts of the steps and railings with parquet varnish.

The best step varnish is polyurethane parquet. It is expensive but extremely durable.

When working with a spray gun, the use of a respirator is mandatory

Painting interior stairs is easy and affordable. home master... If you purchased high-quality materials and followed the technology during work, your staircase will fulfill its tasks and look brilliant for a very long time.

Our company "PSK Plast" has a need to sell balusters at a very, very discounted price, but, as they say, free cheese is only in a mousetrap. These balusters will be multi-colored, may differ in tone, i.e. white, light white, dark white, gray. And they may even turn out to be multi-colored.

This is not a marriage!

These are full-fledged beautiful, ready-to-install balusters from artificial marble according to SISTROM technology. Artificial marble is architectural concrete with additives: plasticizer and dye. Thus, a product is obtained, which in its physical and mechanical properties exceeds products made of natural marble. Compressive strength is higher, surface abrasion is less, frost resistance is higher. And the surface of the baluster at the same time looks like polished marble, smooth, glossy, without visible pores. To paint such a baluster is absolutely illogical and wrong. It's like buying a Mercedes for yourself, and starting to rearrange the engine from a Zhiguli.

Where to begin?

Well, first of all, because the baluster has a smooth surface, it is necessary to improve adhesion with a primer deep penetration... Those. in simple words improve the adhesion of the surface, so that the paint adheres better and lasts longer. By the way, concrete surfaces need to be primed with almost any type of work, whether you are going to lay tiles on the walls, glue wallpaper, or paint concrete surface... Otherwise, after a year, the paint will fall off, the wallpaper will come off, the tiles will fall off. And your such savings ... are only needed by manufacturers, so that you renew your repairs every year through your own fault.

Prime

The word may seem intimidating, in fact, the lesson is quite simple, we take a primer, pour it into some container so that it is more convenient to work and process the surface with a brush. (it is better to use a primer from the same manufacturer as the paint) And before priming, you need to wash the product, remove possible greasy stains.

What paint to choose for this?

Paint for concrete for outdoor use, I emphasize for outdoor use ... should be as durable as possible, i.e. have high weather resistance and wear resistance. since the environment in our area is not soft. Constant drops through zero, when minus at night and water gets into the pores freezes, pores expand, in the afternoon the positive temperature ice melts, water flows out, this is the worst thing for any building materials... Thus, the composition of such paints includes all kinds of binders that do not allow the coating to peel off. Elastic acrylic latex paint as stated gives the most durable effect. Next, what you need to pay attention to: you need to paint the balustrade with a spray gun or spray gun, and not with a brush. It is more convenient to handle round curly surfaces with such a sprayer, and they do not leave streaks from the brush. To avoid streaks and smudges, it is necessary to keep at a certain distance. Let the paint dry and enjoy the result ... hopefully a few years.

What happens?

Most often, subject to all the rules, the paint lasts 2-3 years (when choosing expensive and quality materials can reach as much as 5 years) and breaks off, cracks. If you do not bother you live on and are happy, if you are embarrassed, remove the layer of paint, clean it with everyone possible means... Lesson on labor costs something else. And you start with priming and painting first, and enjoy another 2-3 years.

Modern technologies

This approach was acceptable in the twentieth century. Now I recommend buying artificial marble products that do not require additional maintenance, painting, priming, etc. You can choose almost any color during production. Set and forget, just enjoy. Durability over 50 years.

The staircase in the house is an important part, especially if the building has several levels. With its help, you can not only climb to the next floor. She must become unique element interior. Therefore, it is necessary for every owner of a two- or three-story private house to know how and with what to paint a staircase.

To give the staircase a finished look, several varieties are used. paints and varnishes... These are varnishes, impregnations and paints proper. The former emphasize the structure of the wood (toning) or fix the result (transparent), the latter also emphasize the beauty of the wood pattern, but need additional fixing with transparent varnish. Paints allow you to paint the stairs as you wish.

Coloring is done not only for aesthetic purposes. Pine grooved board is most often used on the floor. Despite its strength, unopened wood wears out 5 times faster. This is due to the fact that dust and grains of sand are clogged into the pores, which over time destroy the structure of the floorboards. Opening a staircase made of pine or any other wood with varnish or paint with your own hands, you extend its service life.

Transparent / tinting varnish for wood

The steps, balusters and railings are covered with varnish. The colorless composition does not hide the texture of the wood. It is very important that all stair elements are sanded on the highest level... Transparent varnishes are of several types:

1. Latex. Non-toxic material, safe for humans and animals. When applied to wood, forms a thin, durable, water-resistant layer. Has antiseptic properties - protects wood from mold, rot. It is used both indoors and outdoors.
2. On water based or acrylate. Does not have bad smell, non-toxic, forms a sufficiently strong coating that is resistant to mechanical damage, prevents aging of the tree.
3. On synthetic resins. Such varnishes dry quickly, are resistant to aggressive media (alkalis, acids), and are used only for interior work. Do not use synthetic resin varnishes to paint the stairs. For balusters and railings, they are suitable.
4. Yacht. It happens different types, depending on the base - alkyd and its varieties (urethane-alkyd, alkyd-urethane) and acrylate. It is toxic, so when using it inside the living area, wear a respirator, otherwise the probability of poisoning is 99%.

Advice! Use for staining stairs only as a last resort. It is poisonous even after drying.

Tint varnishes include oil formulations... With their help, you can change the color of the tree from pale yellow to deep brown. When choosing, you need to see how many percent of the oil is included in the composition. For staining stair steps, this parameter should be at least 65%. In this case, you will get a durable, wear-resistant coating. If in oil varnish only 50% oil or less, there can be no question of any strength. This composition is only suitable for balusters and railings.

Wood paints

On sale you can find a great variety of the most different compositions... But which one is suitable for painting wooden stairs? To answer this question, you need to consider the types of paints used for wood:

1. Oil. Consist of drying oil, stabilizers and coloring pigment. They do not have a pungent smell, are affordable, available in a rich color palette, and are economically consumed. However, the tree does not breathe under such paint. The resulting surface cannot withstand mechanical damage, quickly erases and fades. Service life up to 5 years.
2. Alkyd. Based on pentaphthalic varnish with the addition of a coloring pigment and antiseptic additives. Dries quickly. The finished coating is elastic and resistant to mechanical damage, durable. Alkyd paints are cheap, have a rich color palette.
3. Acrylic. Produced on the basis of acrylic resins... They are non-toxic, do not have a strong odor, dry quickly, wear-resistant, have a rich color palette, do not fade over time. The tree breathes under such a covering. Service life up to 20 years.

Advice! Invariably good result give alkyd paints for a tree. Choose them if you want to save a little and get a high-quality staircase covering.

What to look for

The criteria for choosing a certain type of paintwork for a wooden staircase are as follows:

1. Floor load. If the stairs to the second / third floor are often used, then a wear-resistant coating is chosen.
2. Wood species. A pine floor can and should be painted, larch boards have a beautiful pattern, so it is better to choose a colorless or tinted varnish.
3. The presence of ventilation. The stairs are usually located close to entrance zone, then there should be no problems with airing. Therefore, you can choose any paintwork.
4. Price. The issue of savings is especially important if a lot of money has been spent on repairing or building a house. In this case, you can choose cheaper paintwork materials for the stairs, but not at the expense of the quality of the finished coating.

Now you know how to paint a wooden staircase and how to choose the right composition.

Dyeing technology

Painting a wooden staircase takes place in 2 stages. This is the preparation of the base and, directly, the opening with varnish or paint of handrails, balusters, steps. The first stage is very important, you cannot do without it if you want to get a beautiful and smooth staircase.

Preparation of the base

For work, you will need a solution for, putty on wood, or alternative ways sealing gaps (wood chips, wood dust mixed with colorless varnish), antiseptic primer, iron brush, spatula, sandpaper - 80, 100, 120, 180 - 220, 240 - 320 and zero.

The technology for preparing the base with your own hands is simple:

1. Remove debris from the stairs and wash with water. Then wait until it dries completely.
2. Treat the stairs with a remover old paint... Use a spatula to remove the swollen coating. Rip off what has not risen with an iron brush.
3. Clean the steps, balusters and railings with sandpaper, or better with two - first 80, then 100, remove dust with a brush, vacuum the steps additionally.
4. Fill up the cracks. The putty will not last long if the ladder is actively used. Try filling the cracks with wood chips. Pick up a piece according to the size of the hole, grease with PVA glue and put in place. Another way to seal cracks: mix wood dust with colorless varnish, seal the cracks with the resulting composition and let dry.
5. Sandpaper again, now 120, remove the dust and finish the work with zero. Ideally, both steps, balusters and railings should be smooth "like an egg."
6. Treat the ladder with an antiseptic primer. Use a roller for this. Make sure that the composition gets into all recesses and decorations (if any).
7. Wait for the primer to dry.

Now you can proceed to the final stage.

Paint coating

This is a crucial moment. Depends on the quality of the coating appearance stairs and how harmoniously it will fit into the interior of the house. For work you will need paint and a brush / roller. You can use a spray gun (it costs significantly more than the usual tools for applying paintwork materials).

DIY paint application technology:

1. Open the jar. Stir the paint thoroughly using a long, sturdy wooden stick. There should be no lumps in it.
2. If the composition is too thick, dilute with solvent.
3. Dip a brush or roller into the paint. Start coloring. All movements should be along the grain. After priming, the paint should not be absorbed too quickly. If you notice that the composition goes into the wood like a sponge, paint the entire staircase and wait for the first layer to dry.
4. Reapply paint. Pay special attention to the joints of the balusters / floor, balusters / railings, as well as various recesses and squiggles (if there are curly elements on the stairs).

Advice! After the paint has dried, open the ladder with clear varnish. This will increase the strength of the coating. Alternatively, paint only the steps, and open the balusters and railings with varnish.

Varnishing

The preparatory work before such a finish is somewhat different. Grinding is carried out only once before the first opening. This is due to the fact that the varnish will inevitably raise all the villi on the surface. Interlayer sanding will be required (sandpaper 180 - 220), and for the first layer it is better to use a special primer varnish.

Note. After stripping the base coat, the stairs are always a pitiful sight. It looks an order of magnitude worse than after removing the old paint. Don't be alarmed. A second coat of varnish, placed on a properly prepared surface, will do the trick.

The stairs are painted in steps:

1. Prepare a colorless varnish (if it is two-component, mix it with your own hands according to the instructions).
2. Dip a velor roller in the varnish.
3. Proceed with the coating by running the roller along the grain of the wood.
4. Let the layer dry. This is approximately 3 hours.
5. Do another intercoat sanding. Use fine sandpaper (240 - 320).
6. Apply a second coat of varnish. The third and more layers are applied only after the previous one has completely dried.

If you don't like the natural color of pine, larch or other wood, use a stain to darken the stairs. You can apply varnish on oil based by choosing the desired shade. Which is better is up to you.

The drying time of the stairs depends on the number of layers of varnish. After a day, you can walk on it in socks or knitted slippers without a hard sole. On average, the coating gains working strength after 7 - 10 days. Act exactly as instructed, and then the result will meet expectations.

If the process of erecting the stairs is already behind and a magnificent do-it-yourself pine construction is already in your country house, then it's time to start painting it. How and what to paint the staircase system, what types of paint and varnish products to give preference to - this article will tell about this and many other things.

Pine staircase, varnished, looks beautiful and soundly

Features of painting wooden surfaces

Coating pine products with varnish and paint has its own characteristics. Indeed, as you know, wood, unlike metal, plastic and stone, is hygroscopic. In addition, no worse than water, its surface is eaten by paints, varnishes and solvents. This can cause the grain of the wood to reshape and the surface becomes rough.

That is why you can paint a pine staircase with your own hands only with the coating that is intended specifically for these purposes.

Do I need to paint the tree

The texture of the wood itself is quite beautiful and can be used as a decorative component. In this case, its coating can be made transparent or translucent.

Pine is distinguished by a high content of resin, which impregnates the material. Therefore, not all paint will fall evenly on the tarred area.

Stain

This layer is required and should be the first layer when processing wood. Its advantages:

• firstly, it prevents the tree from fungus;
• secondly, it protects against decay;
• thirdly, it does not allow midges to breed in wood.

In addition, the stain forms a moisture barrier and prevents the pine from cracking.

However, this coating alone is not enough, since it is not able to protect the tree from mechanical wear. And you must admit that it is not very convenient to walk up the soaked stairs only barefoot or in slippers.

What coating to apply

The second layer after applying the stain should be varnish or enamel.

Enamel

For staining low-grade wood stairs the best choice there will be enamel. It will hide the putty on knots and cracks and protect the surface from wear and mechanical damage. In addition, the enamel layer is very easy to maintain - it is quite simple to wash it periodically.

Varnish

If the surface of the pine staircase is flat and free of any damage, then varnish is the best choice. It will accentuate the beauty of the texture and refine its look.

The lacquered surface of the pine staircase looks extremely beautiful.

When to paint

Many novice craftsmen are interested in the question of when to paint and varnish a pine staircase - before or after installation.

According to many experts, the product should be varnished or painted like this:

• If for installation staircase construction If anchor bolts, screws and studs are used, then it is most reasonable to apply a layer of coating to the component parts before they are connected together. This will reliably protect from negative external influences those planes that after the installation of the system will be inaccessible.
• If, when erecting a staircase with your own hands, you use glue to connect its components, then you need to cover the surface with varnish or paint with a ready-made staircase structure.

How to choose the right paint and varnish

Before deciding on the desired coverage, it is necessary to divide work surface pine stairs into separate components, since they have a completely different mode of operation.

For example, steps are subject to more severe wear - studs and heels can leave marks on the wood surface if protective layer coverage is weak.

At the same time, handrails and fittings, as well as risers, hardly experience overload. And, therefore, their coating is more of a decorative function. Hence the choice of materials.

Determining the type of coverage

So how to paint a pine staircase with your own hands and correctly choose varnish and paint?

For the working plane of the steps, alkyd floor enamels are used - for example, the domestic paint PF-266, as well as its imported counterparts.

The best varnish for a pine staircase is polyurethane parquet. Its cost is quite high, but despite this it is of very high quality and forms a strong and wear-resistant protective surface.

For those surfaces that do not experience strong mechanical stress, we recommend PF-115 enamels.

As for the varnish, the most the best option are affordable nitrocellulose varnishes of the NTs series or alkyd PF-170.

Dyeing process

So, we now know how to paint a pine staircase. It remains to find out how to do it yourself.

The entire staining process is divided into the following stages:

• Degreasing the surface.
• Putty application.
• Grinding the product.
• Painting stairs.

Degreasing

This is the first step of the preliminary work. Pine, as you know, has a resinous surface, and in order to remove it, it is necessary to treat the product with a special solvent. For these purposes, ordinary turpentine is perfect.

Putty

In order to close up all the existing flaws in the structure, it must be putty. In this case, the best choice would be a special acrylic wood putty.

Grinding

Immediately before painting a pine staircase, to obtain a flawless surface, the product must be sanded. It is better to process the steps with a grinder, and the balusters and railings by hand.

Dyeing

It is better to paint a pine structure with a brush. Alkyd enamel or do not spray the viscous varnish with a spray gun, for the roller, the surface of the stairs has a rather difficult shape.

Painting is carried out in three layers, and polyurethane varnish it can be applied on steps and in 6-7 layers, since it performs, in addition to an aesthetic function, also a protective one against mechanical damage.

After applying the first layer and completely drying it, the entire surface is sanded with zero-grade sandpaper.

Now you know how to paint a pine staircase with your own hands and choose a varnish. But, if for some reason you do not want to build on your own and then paint the structure, then you can always use the offers of our online store and buy from us already finished staircase pine or any other material