How We Protect Your Home During Our Sanding Service
Our technicians are qualified professionals who take care of things expertly. They undertake several measures that assure you great tranquility, peace of mind, and service excellence while the restoration or sanding process for the floor takes place.
Once our technicians come to your home, they will ensure that the place where you desire to install the floor is free of any type of furniture. In this regard, our technicians will provide exceptional support with help in moving out larger furniture and take them out from the rooms quickly. In case, there are furniture items in the room while the process of sanding takes place, our qualified experts will ensure to sand your floor in divisions or parts.
In addition, our technicians are thoroughly instructed by the company to use polythene dust sheets in order to protect the floor from dust, dirt, walls, doors, paintings, furniture or any other item that can hinder the process of sanding.
We use polythene sheets to seal stairs, entrances, to prevent them from dust. Although our floor sanding service is completely dust-free, it is important to know that some procedures can produce a small amount of dust, for instance, stairs stripping and sanding, and manual refinishing wooden panels’ corners.
In addition, we make sure to use low-tack masking tape. They are good items in preventing the damage, color, or scratches to beadings, skirting boards, doors, walls, door frames, as well as the fireplaces. The use of masking tapes is significant while our qualified technicians are carrying out the process of sanding. Usually, the standard tape is made up of paper. While working with the masking tape, our team is prepared to take risks.
For instance, during the process of finishing, when we apply stain or lacquer, it is worth knowing that the lacquer or stain can affect the surface under the tape. Another drawback of using masking tape is having strong tack adhesion, which can significantly cause adhesive residues to remain on the floor surface. It can like to damage the finished skirting boards.
Moreover, our floor restoration service can give you 99% dust-control on various occasions. It is because we are keen on using dust-free machinery and/or equipment. For instance, we use the Bona DCS system for larger areas. Generally, you should not worry about the dust because our professionals use state-of-the-art and quality vacuum cleaners that can remove any excess of dirt/dust after the process of restoration.
So, as you can see that we use all these aforementioned protective measures before and after the process of sanding, the end result is a great finish. We provide a stress-free wood floor renovation and this is a great advantage you get while you avail our company reliable sanding services.
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 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.
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.
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.
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.
Do you lift & dispose old flooring?
Yes, with our floor restoration service we can remove and dispose old carpets, vinyl, laminate or wooden flooring.
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.