Wood Floor Sanding & Sealing
Wood floor sanding is our speciality when it comes to floor restoration and we claim to know virtually everything about it. We have got years of experience dealing with a wide variety of wooden floors. We have been growing rapidly and now we offer the ultimate restoration services portfolio in London.
Floor sanding is a craft that takes quite a while to master and become confident with. The art of transforming the look of rusty boards or 100s of years old parquet into a fine, beautiful floor and seeing it return to its former glory of shiny and smooth finish feels great and the happy faces of our customers at the result of our work are a reward in its own.
Dust Free Floor Sanding Service
Wood floor sanding is just a stage in the wood floor restoration process that relates to the preparation of the timber surface. Sanding removes the protective layer of your floors - be it varnish, oil or hardwax-oil and makes their surface smooth, clean and ready for the new finish.
Sometimes thinner or cracked board or loose parquet block may need to be re-fitted, or entirely replaced if parts of the floor have been damaged due to moisture, wearing and lack of solidness.
We are proud of our professional range of sanding equipment and our time-proven methods, used to prepare the timber surface and give it a uniform, smooth and fine finish. Our floor sanding equipment is Dust Free - although due to the nature of the sanding process, some small amount of dust particles remain uncaptured. Our floormen, however, will provide dust sheets during the job, so that all areas where even a small amount of dust is undesirable can be properly sealed and protected during our floor sanding service.
If you wish us to help you imagine how your old wood floors will look after the floor renovation, we will be happy to provide a sample area during the viewing of your floors. Seeing for yourself is nice as it helps with decoration planning. You may even decide you would rather have a perfect match and go for one of our floor staining options.
Contact our team at 020 88309782 or email us at info@flooringfirst.co.uk to book a free site visit and consultation for wood floor sanding in London.
Parquet Floor Restoration Specialists
Parquet floor sanding requires the floorman's absolute attention to detail. Due to the various directions of the parquet flooring blocks and the flow of the wood grain, it is more challenging to finish parquet flooring than any other type of wooden floor. This is where our passion for wood comes in handy. We love restoring parquet floors as we love laying them. We know as a fact that classics never get out of fashion. Our services can offer finishing of the parquet flooring in water-based and solvent-based lacquers, hardwax-oil in a variety of colours.
Renovation of Engineered Wood Floors
Engineered wood floors exist for a reason - they are designed to give us the natural wood floor feeling we want, but not the contraction of the solid wood flooring, which in certain environments and conditions may cause damage.
We know all about these floors! They are great! Now, how about sanding engineered wood flooring?
The top layer of engineered flooring can vary between 2.5 - 6 mm. Anything less than that we will not include in this group of products at all. That thickness allows a certain number of wood floor restorations to be carried out during their life span.
Getting our floor sanding service against any other floor sanding company for your engineered wood floors will assure you that floormen in your property can make the right decision for your engineered floors. They will proceed with the type of abrasive that will focus on removing the sealant layer only, making sure the floors retain their real wood top layer as much as possible. If the floors are in poor condition and have extensive wearing with insignificant thickness of the top layer, we will advise you before any work.
- DID YOU KNOW? Planks with a 3 mm top layer can be sanded only once.
- DID YOU KNOW? Planks with 2 or 3 strips usually indicate engineered flooring with a top layer of 3 mm.
- DID YOU KNOW? Hardwood floors can be sanded up to the tongue & groove, which is a sandable depth of approximately 7 mm on a standard 18 mm thick plank. This is almost as much as a 6 mm engineered flooring.
Sealing Sanded Floors - Lacquers, Oils, Hardwax-Oils
Once your wood floors have been sanded, stained and gap filled to perfection, we can get down to finalising the job and seal the bare wood surface. Sealing the floor using quality lacquers or oils is crucial. We use professional trade products created by the flooring industry leaders Bona, Osmo and Junckers.
Our range of floor finishes includes water-based single-component clear lacquers designed for domestic wearing; two-component commercial grade lacquers and the new range of natural lacquers, which do tint the colour of the bare wood to a minimum, leaving the overall look of the floors as unfinished timber.
Our recommended hardwax-oil products include Osmo, Bona and Loba, however, occasionally upon clients request we also use Blanchon products. All Bona & Junckers water-based lacquers are Low VOC products. All Osmo products contain solvents and natural wax products.
Our flooring service comes with obligation-free site visit, quick quotations and free advice. Give us a call on 020 88309782 to speak to a member of our staff, who can arrange for a free assessment of your floor sanding or wood floor fitting service at a convenient for you time.