If you’re planning on laying new wood flooring and need to remove old wood flooring that needs replacing to make way for it, there are several things you need to bear in mind. The first thing to ascertain is how the old floor has been laid. Has it been laid using a nail-down, glue-down…
The question “should I acclimatise wood flooring before installation?” is a question which is often asked by people planning to install a new wooden floor. Solid wood flooring, as the name suggests is made from a 100% natural product, wood. Engineered wood flooring is made up of layers of different woods, topped by solid wood,…
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There are few things more annoying when you’ve just installed a new wooden floor than to discover a stain. While major stains may require the intervention of a professional, we’d like to share with you our Quick Tips for wooden floor stain removal. Before outlining our quick tips for wooden floor stain removal, it’s worth…
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If you’re looking for a way to fill gaps in your unfinished wood floors, it is probably the case that your floor has been subject to some expansion and contraction since it was first laid and you have now been left with gaps you’d like to fill. There is one thing worth saying before you…
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Before explaining the difference between parquetry and marquetry, it’s probably worth defining exactly what is meant by each term. Not particularly commonly used terms in day to day language, most people have a notion of what is meant by parquetry and marquetry, but the detail is worth exploring to enable the differences to become…
Maintenance oils and lacquers for wood floors are a great bonus for anyone whose floor has a tough life, because they truly breathe new life into a tired looking floor. Designed to be applied over your floor’s existing finish, maintenance oils and lacquers are thinner than their full floor finish equivalents and don’t require…
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Oak flooring in restaurants is a really popular style choice. No matter whether the food in the restaurant is modern or traditional, you can be certain that oak flooring will match the ambiance and enhance the interior design. As with any wood flooring in any commercial setting, the three most important things to take…