Paper Bag Floor Problems

8 coat the floor using a polyurethane sealer.

Paper bag floor problems. The couple say it will take at least five years to see any wear in the floor. Once dry give it a coat of polyurethane. What is strange is that it turned back into dry concrete dust piles under the bag floor.

Do not polyurethane the paper it turns the paper crispy and translucent and you don t want that. Less than 100 to do a normal sized dining room floor. A glued down paper bag floor looks much like you d imagine like lunch bags torn and scattered across the floor.

The potential problem is that these finishes are made specifically for wood flooring which happens to be one of the most used and abused surfaces in a house so unfortunately it might just be possible that the paper bag floor just isn t feasible. Repeat until you have covered the floor but don t have any overlapping stones on the floor. Wait for it to dry.

Place your paper where you want it on the floor and paint over the top of it with the découpage mixture. To not have to rip up the floor after killing my back because it looked cheap and stupid. Notice the texture the crumpling gives the stones once again.

Fill in empty spaces on the floor with small pieces of the paper until the floor is completely covered. Press out air bubbles as you smooth the paper pieces on the floor layering the pieces in an overlapping pattern to generate the desired random look. Another issue is most floors aren t perfectly level and if something is spilled and gets underneath of the paper material liquid tends to run downhill so basically if the floors aren t perfectly level the liquid will travel and settle in the lowest area of the floor usually a corner and as it sits it absorbs into the paper then between the paper and finish basically separating the finish and causing it to bubble crack chip away etc.

I think you re going to be pretty surprised that a few pieces of brown paper bag turned into this. Brown paper bags you know the stuff. Dip the crumpled paper ball into the glue mixture carefully unwrap the the wrinkled paper and smooth it out on the floor.