Uxbridge Floor Sanding

WHAT DO YOU RECOMMEND FOR THE FINISH?​

There are numerous different floor finishes to choose from. However, it doesn’t make a huge amount of difference which one you go for if your floor experiences normal levels of traffic. This only becomes an issue for environments such as museums, restaurants and busy offices, where an industrial varnish, for example, may be required.​

For a typical home, we’d normally recommend that you use a varnish to create a good seal in rooms like kitchens and bathrooms where you expect some amount of spillage to occur. We’d use a coloured stain to give you the colour you require, with a clear varnish topping to protect the floor. Alternatively, for a room such as a lounge or bedroom where you’re looking for a deeper, richer glow that gets right into the wood, we’d suggest opting for an oil finish.

There are certain small advantages and disadvantages to different finishes that you may like to consider too. An oil finish for instance will enable local repairs to be carried out when patches appear over time, although the oil will need to be re-applied fairly regularly. A wax finish does not require such regular application, but the whole floor will need re-waxing when it starts to wear. 

WHAT SORT OF INCONVENIENCE AND MESS MAY I EXPECT?

We always try to keep inconvenience down to an absolute minimum, although you’ll of course notice that we’re there. For a normal floor such as that in a kitchen or lounge area we’ll take one day to repair and sand the floor and another day to apply a suitable finish to it, and then you’ll have to leave the floor alone for a further few days to let it cure properly. 

We use the latest sanding machines to limit dust production and retain practically all of the dust that is generated by them. Our teams will also seal off other rooms as they work and also clean up after themselves. Dust and mess will therefore not be any problem for you.

When we work on floors in commercial properties we can do everything outside of regular office hours, and with schools we usually work during holidays to get the flooring ready for the start of the new term.  

​In a normal family home you can expect to get a good decade of use from your new wooden flooring before you have to think about getting it sanded and finished again. You should, however, look after it properly by having it buffed and polished every few years and treating it with a certain amount of respect, such as not wearing shoes in the house and deploying doormats and suchlike.