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Solid Oak Floor - rather than fitting these boards all the way up to the hearth we created a mitred frame from the floor boards resulting in an attractive feature.
Solid Oak Floor - due to the large width of these boards (220mm) they needed to be screwed and plugged. This technique results in attractive wooden plugs which are sanded flush prior to sealing.
Pre-finished Engineered Oak Floor - once fitted, engineered flooring is often indistinguishable from solid boards and can offer some advantages. A solid floor this width (185mm) would ideally need to be screwed and plugged.
Rustic grade solid oak parquet block. Fitted in a herringbone pattern and showing detail of the three-block border turning a corner. Also shows undercut skirting.
Engineered Oak planks. This picture shows how a floor can be fitted continously between a number of rooms. The lack of thresholds and beading creates a much neater finish.
Smoked Oak Engineered Floor. We undercut the main post on this landing and fitted under it. The spindles cannot be undercut so a trim is added to finish the edge of the floor.
Here the skirting was undercut all around the room before the floor was installed. This approach hides the expansion gap and gives a clean, professional finish.
Solid Oak Herringbone Parquet floor with a Walnut tramline. The strips for the tramline had to be carefully selected as some walnut can be very pale and would not stand out against the oak.
Solid Walnut Herringbone Parquet Floor. This floorwas fitted in the room next door to the Oak floor in the previuos picture on the left. It has an oak tramline in contrast to the walnut.
These beech blocks were purchased by the client on the internet. As they were 50mm thick, they were cut in half to make twice as many 25mm blocks, making the overall cost of the materials very low.
The condition of these mahogany parquet blocks prior to sanding can be seen in the Floor Sanding Gallery. The raw wood is fairly pale but a clear polyurethane lacquer produces the finish seen here.
Solid Bamboo Floor. This luxury development had a number of unusual features such as curved doors and trench heaters. Successfully fitting around these features required careful planning.
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