Wood Floor Sanding Company in New Cross | SE14

Flooring Advice?

Check our Flooring Guide, which offers various advice in topics like Wood Floor Finishing & Staining Products & Tools Parquet Flooring Restoration , etc.

• How to Maintain Your Lacquered Wooden Floor
• Pine Floorboards Sanding - A Quick DIY Guide
• Natural Unfinished Timber Look for Your Wooden Floors
• What is the Difference Between Bona Mega & Bona Mega Natural Lacquer?
• Advice for Wooden Stairs Sanding & Restoration

What Commercial Services We Do In New Cross?

For our business clients we provide tailored commercial flooring services to the highest industry standards. We have already many local commercial floors in New Cross with excellent customer satisfaction rate. Today we continue to provide outstanding commercial flooring services to:

• Floor Restoration for Schools
• Floor Restoration for Restaurants & Pubs
• Floor Renovation for Offices, Retail & Showrooms
• Floor Renovation Services for Museums, Galleries & Theatres
• Floor Restoration for Churches & Community Halls

Whatever the type of flooring and whatever the need for flooring service, contact FloorWorks today, regardless of the size of the project.

See What Our Clients from New Cross Say About Us...

• ★★★★★

  Careful, professional and pleasant staff.

  Annabel Porter, homeowner from Harrow on the Hill
• ★★★★★

  Compliments to your workers - we had an excellent service. The team were punctual and tidy and were highly skilled. My floors look brilliant!

  Eve Curtis, cafe owner from Hendon
• ★★★★★

  Amazing finish. Well done work. Will recommend.

  Tyler Garner, landlord from Woking

Check Our Latest Flooring Advice Posts...

• Natural Unfinished Timber Look for Your Wooden Floors
• How to Prepare My Home for Floor Sanding Service
• Benefits of the Oil & Hardwax-Oils
• Floor Sanding - DIY or Hire a Professional Sanding Company
• What is the Difference Between Bona Mega & Bona Mega Natural Lacquer?

Do You Have a Question?

• Should I use varnish or oil for my original pine floorboards?

  Hi and thank you for the question regarding the choice of sealant for pine floorboards.

  Pine is soft wood and while it is possible to seal pine with both laquers and Harwax Oils, we would always recommend the use of hardwearing varnish when sanding and sealing this type of flooring. The reason for this is that pine tends to absorb oils, which means that pine floorboards sealed with hardwax oils will have lower level of protection and durability compared to those sealed with varnish. This is particularly the case where staining is required. Therefore we would recommend stained pine floorboards to be sealed with hardwearing varnish.

  We hope that the above helps.

• Can I seal domestic wooden floors with commercial grade floor lacquer?

  Hi and thank you for your question about the use of commercial grade floor lacquer or oil in domestic properties. The quick answer is yes. However, there are several things you need to consider when choosing the most appropriate floor sealant for your floors.

  Once the floors are properly sanded to a smooth finish, it is extremely important that lacquer is applied right away to ensure that the bare timber is protected from any accidental spillages. Choosing the best type of sealant requires not only consideration of how the floors are expected to be used, but also how often you will be bale to maintain them in the future. While lacquers provide a more durable and hard wearing sealant, it is important to note that they do not allow for local scratch repairs and once floors are damaged, they would need a total resanding and revarnishing. Therefore, some customers prefer the use of wood floor oils, such as Osmo Oils to seal their floors. While oiled floors allow some minor floor scratches to be repaired and reoiled locally, without the need of overall sanding, it is important to note that they do require a regular wood floor re-oiling service to maintain the sealant.

  Should you decide to go for a lacquer rather than oil, we would recommend the commercial grades of some renown varnish producers such as Loba Varnishes, Bona Lacquers and Junckers sealants, which we regularly use for our floor restoration services as they provide high level of protection and durability.

  We hope this information was helpful and don't hesitate to contact us if you need any further assistance or if you would like to book our floor restoration service.

• What can go wrong with DIY floor sanding?

  Hi,

  Doing floor restoration yourself might be a tricky thing to do unless you have some sanding experience and knowledge. Floor sanding requires particular skills which can only be obtained through experience. Therefore, we always recommend leaving the sanding of your parquet flooring to the experts like FloorWorks, who are experienced in sanding different types of flooring nad have the skills to avoid costy mistakes.

  However, if you are certain that you want to give it a try, make sure that you do some research about parquet floor sanding. One particular thing that you need to be aware of is the technique of proper allication of the wood floor finish. Once floors are sanded to a smooth finish, carefully apply the first coat of varnish, allowing sufficient time for it to dry before the next application of the following coat. Sometimes, when when the floor surface was not perfectly smooth and clean before the application of varnish or in cases where the existing sealant has not been entirely removed, blobs can appear after the sanding. This might be a very expensive thing to ractify as it would require an entire re-sanding and re-varnishing of the floors. Bear in mind that if your parquet flooring has already been sanded in the past, there might be a limited opportunity to re-sand agai, which may mean that an overall replacement of the flooring might be required.

  Therefore, it is always recommended to leave the parquet floor sanding to a professional sanding company like {{ organisation:name }}.

And Some Frequently Asked Questions...

• Can I book floor sanding service on a weekend?

  Yes, our sanding and sealing service is available to book throughout the 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 upcoming works.

• What is the lead time for your floor sanding services?

  Lead times can vary, but usually we accommodate works within 2 weeks even in the summer when there is higher demand for the service.

  We do get cancellations and availability can be flexible. Best to check with a member of the team if your floor restoration works are urgent.

• How long does it take before the floors can be used again after sanding service?

  During the restoration service, the floors can handle light traffic without disrupting the process.

  During the sealing process, the floors can be walked on between coats.

  After the final coat is applied, foot traffic can be handled after 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.

Our Work in Pictures...

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