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  If you’re planning to install commercial wood flooring there’s a whole host of things you’ll need to take into consideration thanks to the broad range of wood flooring solutions which are ideally suited to a commercial environment. No matter whether you’re looking to floor or re-floor a pub, a club, a shop, an office […]

Wood and Beyond glossary of A to Z guide to terms relating to timber and wooden products. A | B | C | D | E | F | G | H | I | J | K | L | M | N | O | P | Q | R | S | […]

  If you’re planning to measure your room before buying wood flooring (or any other type of flooring), you’ll need three basic items.  The first is a tape measure, the second is a piece of paper and finally a pen.  Ideally you should choose a 10 or 20 meter tape measure and if possible recruit […]

If you’re considering wood flooring for your bathrooms, you’ll be aware that the big problem with wood flooring in bathrooms is humidity.  If it wasn’t for humidity, installing wood flooring in your bathrooms would be no problem at all.  That said, if you make the right choices and take the right precautions, wood flooring for […]

  If you’re thinking about installing wood flooring over underfloor heating, you’ll be only too aware of the many debates going on about the subject.  The first thing we’d recommend is if that you’re planning to install wood flooring over underfloor heating, it must be engineered wood flooring and not solid wood flooring. Engineered wood […]

If you’re planning a new wood floor, it’s only too easy to get wrapped up in the cost and choice of the floor itself and forget about the wood flooring installation costs.  When it comes to wood flooring installation costs, the prices you’ll be quoted will vary enormously as will the quality of fitting, so […]

  Wood flooring is featured in many residential properties as well as in commercial properties across the UK. In this guide to wood flooring, we will focus on the important aspects you, as a property owner should pay attention to. Flooring Type – Solid Wood Vs. Engineered Wood Earlier we used the phrase ‘pay attention’ […]

Wood and Beyond will be participating at the Creating Landscapes show, an industry leading event for landscaping and gardening professionals from across the country. Make sure to check us at stand 310 for all sorts of goodies and great prices… The show will taking place on October 25 and 26, 2011 at the 30 acre […]

Real wood flooring refers to flooring which is made from either solid or engineered wood.  Solid wood flooring, as the name suggests is made up of single planks of solid wood whereas engineered flooring is made up of a thin layer of solid wood on top of a plywood base. Solid wood flooring comes in […]

  Made from hard wood, wooden worktops are a great way to give your kitchen a stylish yet natural look.  Wooden kitchen worktops can be used to create a traditional or a modern theme depending on the overall look you have chosen for your room.  What’s more, with the right care and attention your worktop […]

Used in solid and engineered wood flooring, tongue and groove wood flooring is a system of installing a floor which is made of planks.  Effectively, in a tongue and groove wood floor, as the name suggests, each plank has a tongue and a groove.  On one long side of the plank you’ll find the tongue […]

It is common for property owners to suggest ways to increase the value of their property before it is placed on the market. One way is to arbitrarily increase the value of the property over market rate, but if your estate agent thinks you are asking too much based on their experience and understanding of […]