Flooring Services Guide

Wood Floor Sanding

Floorboards Restoration – Nails Or Screws

To keep a wooden floor in good condition, regular cleaning and maintenance are essential. But time is unforgiving, and even the highest-quality surface will eventually need more serious attention — usually floor sanding and a thorough restoration. Unfortuna...

To nail or NOT to nail — that is the question

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Wood Floor Sanding

Staining and painting wooden floors is not the same thing

If there's one place in the world where we're free to do whatever we want, it's our own homes. We can change, transform, and improve them any way we like — floors included. It's not unusual these days to become the owner of a fine new ho...

The difference between staining and paintingThe core difference comes down to how much of the wood's identity survives the process. Staining changes the wood's colour, but you'll have no trouble telling what material is underneath — you can s...

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Wood Floor Sanding

What are the benefits from floor sanding and refinishing

What is floor sanding and refinishing?To put it shortly, wood floor sanding is the process of stripping the top surface of a floor back to bare timber. Refinishing is when that protective surface — oil, lacquer, or wax — is repaired or reapplied afterwards....

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Inspiration

Choosing the right wood species for your flooring

A wood floor installation is a genuinely worthwhile project to invest in. Wooden floors are popular for their durability, hard-wearing nature, and long lifespan. Wood is also naturally hygienic and doesn't attract dust and dirt the way many other floor...

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Floors in lighter shade of pale - whites and greys on the floors

Due to rising demand for light-shaded wooden floors over the past few years, several manufacturers have introduced new, easy-to-apply formulas for achieving white and grey finishes without the unpredictability that used to come with trying to lighten timber...

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Wood Floor Sanding

Floor sanding - do it yourself or hire a professional?

Maybe you think your floor needs a bit of restoration. But do you hire an expert to do it for you, or do you tackle it yourself? What are the pros and cons of each?Sanding is something almost every wood floor will need sooner or later. One of the first thin...

A few things to consider

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Colour combinations – wood flooring contrast games

Matching a dark wood floor with the rest of your interior might look difficult at first glance, but there are plenty of opportunities to create a genuinely beautiful contrast.Dark wooden floors have been one of the defining flooring trends of the past few y...

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Floor Care

How to choose a reliable floor sanding contractor

Wood flooring services aren't rocket science — that much is true. But it is a field that demands narrow, specific knowledge, proper training, and real hands-on experience, so that every job is delivered smoothly, effectively, and above all, produces th...

How to Tell Your Wooden Floor Needs RefinishingWorking out whether a floor genuinely needs refinishing can be a bit of a judgement call, so here are two practical, low-tech tests that give you a real answer rather than a guess.The water testStart by finding...

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Products & Tools

The difference between water based and solvent based polyurethane

Today, floor finishing products can be roughly divided into three major groups, each working on the wood in a fundamentally different way.Surface finishesSurface finishes form a protective film that sits on top of the wood rather than soaking into it — this...

Wax and hardwax oil finishesThe third group covers wax finishes, which are also penetrating rather than film-forming, and are popular with anyone who prefers a more natural, lower-toxicity solution. In flooring specifically, most of what's sold today u...

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6 modern ideas for wooden flooring

There's no other flooring option that looks as elegant, beautiful, and stylish as wood flooring. That's not just our biased opinion — it's one shared and backed by hundreds of thousands of people around the world. Natural wood flooring helps ...

1. Modernise the classicsClassic parquet patterns like herringbone and chevron remain the go-to choice for anyone who loves traditional wood flooring. The herringbone pattern that was so popular through the 1960s and 70s was traditionally built from narrow,...

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