Flooring Services Guide

Wood Floor Sanding

Floor sanding & buffing is the most effective cure for surface damages

Nothing lasts forever, and floors of any kind are no exception to that rule. There are plenty of potential issues that can trouble a hardwood floor over the years, but taking the right measures at the right time can help it stay healthy and attractive for f...

Types of surface damageScratchesScratches are the single most common issue a wood floor develops, and lacquered floors are particularly prone to them, since a scratch that only marks the lacquer film is a very different problem to one that reaches the timbe...

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Wood Floor Sanding

Home preparation for DIY wood floor sanding service

If you own a wood floor, you probably already understand how important treatments like wood floor sanding and refinishing are to keeping it looking its best. Both are genuinely heavy-duty maintenance treatments, and both are recommended periodically to rest...

Signs that your wooden floor needs sanding and refinishingPlenty of owners feel genuinely unsure about the exact point a floor is in serious need of attention, and that's an entirely understandable position to be in. Floor sanding isn't rocket sci...

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Wood Floor Sanding

Wood floor sanding for care homes

Arranging a wood floor sanding service for a care home might sound like a slightly controversial idea at first. Care homes come with their own specific requirements, and protecting the comfort and peace of the residents is usually the top priority above alm...

Is wood flooring actually a good choice for care homes?Wood flooring comes with a genuinely long list of advantages over other flooring types, and several of them line up particularly well with what care homes are trying to achieve.

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Products & Tools

The exclusive wood floor finishes by WOCA

WOCA is a well-known and respected manufacturer of wood floor care products with a heavy focus on wood oils. It has been hinted for some time that the Danish are working on something really big — a project supposed to offer unmatched quality when it comes t...

What Is No1?Advertised as 'The world's most exclusive wood care system!', No1 is a series of wood care products designed to be genuinely revolutionary in the floor maintenance world, rather than just another incremental update to the existing...

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Inspiration

How to stain your floors grey

Grey is a unique colour in more than one way. It's a mix of the two opposite colours on the palette — black and white — and it's genuinely uncommon to find occurring naturally in timber, which is exactly why achieving it on a wood floor takes real...

How is staining applied?Remove every trace of dirt, dust, or leftover finishing product such as old wax or polish — any residue left behind will block the stain from soaking in evenly and is one of the most common causes of a patchy result.Sand your floor,...

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Floor Care

Hardwood flooring and pets – how good is the combination?

Many people assume having pets and a hardwood floor is mission impossible. They're not entirely wrong — except for one crucial detail. Having pets, a genuinely pet-friendly wooden floor, and a smart maintenance routine together is absolutely a mission ...

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Inspiration

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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Floor Care

Oil finishes - the different types and way of application

What Are Oil-Based Finishes?If you have no previous experience with floor finishing products, finding the right one can be a genuinely difficult task — even the terminology is confusing. Have you ever come across "oil finish," "oil-based fini...

Why use an oil finish?

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Floor Care

How moisture affects wooden floors

Moisture and Humidity: Wood Flooring's Biggest EnemyIf you're familiar with wooden floors, or already own one, you've probably heard that moisture and humidity are considered wood's most serious enemy. That's genuinely true — but it...

How does moisture affect the appearance of wood flooring?Parquet, solid wood, and engineered wood floors are all, fundamentally, natural products. Even once cut into floorboards, wood remains a living, responsive material, reacting constantly to changes in ...

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Wood Floor Sanding

Sanding wood floors in the different seasons

Are your wood floor sanding plans affected by the season? In general, you need to be aware of the fact that sanding process is different in the different seasons and today we are about to find out why and what are the main differences that might affect your...

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