Parquet Floor Sanding & Restoration
Parquetry is a hardwood flooring type with incredibly rich history. It has been decorating palaces and royal residences for centuries. It has become a symbol of style and luxury reserved only for the rich and powerful. Now you have it in your own home! It is something valuable that must be preserved. The best way to do that by sanding regularly.
Professional Parquet Floor Restoration
Parquet floor sanding is not exactly easy. It takes skill and experience to perform it properly. Why? Well, the intricate design of parquet patterns is certainly interesting and unique but complicates the refinishing process. Since the parquet blocks face different directions, the resurfacing process is often rather difficult. It way too easy to strip too much wood from certain blocks while leaving others almost untouched. You need practice and knowledge to execute this properly. Thankfully, Wood Floor Sanding Co is right there to help you out. We have plenty of trained specialists capable of handling almost any problem you can have. We are there for you.
How Can We Assist You?
As already stated, the nature of the sanding process for parquet installations is a bit more complicated. However, we can do more than just sand. A complete parquet restoration is much more involving. It includes repair and replacement of old blocks, multiple rounds of sanding with different equipment and sandpaper grits, gap-filling any empty spaces between the blocks, staining with a colour of choice and finishing to provide sufficient level of protection to the surface.
First, we can take care of any old or missing tiles and replace them with matching new ones. In addition, our professional equipment will reduce the dust to a minimum which will make it much easier to clean after everything is completed.
Second, we always recommend to accompany the sanding with a gap-filling procedure because they work so well together. The process consists of mixing the collected dust from the sanding with resin wood filler and filling the larger gaps. Any filler left on the floor will be completely removed with the final polishing round.
Third, depending on your taste, we can provide excellent parquet staining services and find just the right color for your flooring. Colour matching requires a lot of time and experience to pick up. Amateur attempts quite often lead to disasters.
Fourth, we can provide you with expert advice on what kind of finish will be most suitable for your parquetry. If you need help, we are always happy to assist. Usually, people prefer to go for water-based and solvent based lacquers or hard wax oil in a variety of colours. Each has their advantages but the choice is entirely up to you. We work with the best wood flooring companies in the business like Osmo, Junckers and Bona. The products and materials provided by said manufacturers help us turn your old parquetry into a thing of beauty. With the right kind of treatment, it will be completely transformed and we are the people for the job!
Don’t forget to leave the floors for 12 hours before bringing back the furniture into the room.
Do you lift & dispose old flooring?
Yes, with our floor restoration service we can remove and dispose old carpets, vinyl, laminate or wooden flooring.
Can you extend exsiting flooring over a fireplace hearth?
Yes, if you are planning to remove a fireplace hearth and you have parquet flooring, floorboards or planked flooring we may be able to help.
After the repairs, with matching the floor spare material, the floors will need to be sanded and refinished.
Can I book floor sanding service throughout a weekend?
Yes, our sanding and sealing service is available to book throughout a weekend, however these works are noisy and usually noise restrictions apply in flats and residential areas with blocks.
If you property is a house, we highly encourage to inform your neighbours for the upcoiming works.
Do you do floor repairs to herringbone parquet flooring?
Yes, we can supply matching blocks for most solid and engineered herringbone flooring. Usually after herringbone floor repairs, the floors may need to be sanded, gap filled and re-sealed for achieving uniform appearance to the floor.
How many coats of oil are included in your service?
Our standard sanding and oiling service includes 2 coats of clear hardwax-oil or 1 coat of colour oil followed by 1 coat of clear oil. Ocassionally we can increase the number of coats depending on the timber species we are sealing.
Extra coat of hardwax-oil is also available on request.
How long it takes before for the floors to be used again after sanding service?
During the restoration service, the floors can be take light traffic, which is not disruptive for the service.
During the process of sealing the floors can be used only between the coats and after application of final coat the floors can take foot traffic in 2 hours for lacquered floors and (depending on air humidity / season) 5-8 hours for hardwax-oil.
Furniture should go back in place on the following day.
What qualifications your floor sanding specialists have?
To join our networks of flooring professionals, we make sure our local floor restoration technicians comply with the quality, the standard and conduct of our service. As part of the process they must show experience, expertese and skills, good understanding of the floor finishes we use, the floor sanding equipment and the various timber species.
Additional qualifications and courses are a benefit, but as we value our experts based on results, our main focus is on previous experience and eye for detail, which is key to delivering an excellent finish.
How many coats of lacquer are included in your service?
For residential restoration services, floor finishing requires 1 coat of primer and 2 coats of lacquer. The final sheen of the product is defined by the lacquer and available options are extra-matt, matt, satin and gloss.
For commercial restoration services, our floor finishing service will apply 1 coat of primer and 3 coats of commercial grade lacquer. Commercial floor finishes are available in extra-matt, matt and satin.
Extra coats are available on request and we do not recommend application of more than 5 coats of lacquer (including primer). The list of all floor finishes we use is available here.