Sand Your Floors Back to Life

With leading Floor Sanding Services companies such as Blanchon and Bona offering state-of-the art expertise, equipment, advice and materials for all wooden floors, now is a great time to rip up the carpets and breathe life into your old floorboards.

Bare wooden floorboards are all the rage and although countries in Scandinavia have been used to natural flooring for many decades, to some it is all new, but fast becoming the fashion.  Wooden flooring has the advantages of supreme natural beauty coupled with cleanliness.  Any experienced and respected floor sanding company can quickly completely transform your home.

The latest sanding machines are cutting edge products that collect the wood dust for recycling as it flies off the sandpaper and this eco friendly, green approach, is great for both the environment and you.  These machines efficiently grind their way through the uneven upper layers of wood to create a perfect finish and with the addition of a beautiful stain to complement you existing home decor, topped by a layer of durable varnish, the floor will become a major feature of the room.

If you have anyone in the house with an allergy or who suffers from asthma, cleaning up the floorboards and removing dust traps like carpets will work wonders for their quality of life and toddlers too will benefit from the new clean conditions.  It makes perfect sense to go down this environmentally friendly route and restore your floorboards to their natural beauty.

Pay a visit to your local Floor Sanding Company now and be amazed at what they can do to transform your home.

Sand Your Floorboards

If you would like to completely transform the look and feel of your home, there is no better way to do it than by Sanding Wooden Floors to bring out the natural beauty of the wood.

There are good floor sanding companies in almost every town and city in the country and those offering floor sanding in London will provide the equipment and expertise to get the best out of any wooden surface.

After deciding that sanding an existing floor is the best way to go, the next steps are for the surface to be prepared by hammering in any nails that have worked their way loose over the years and filling in unsightly gaps.  Wide gaps can be filled with thin strips of wood, while narrower cracks between boards are often better left to give an old world effect.  However, they can allow draughts in from beneath, so it is sometimes better to fill them with papier-mâché, overlaid with wood filler.  The repair should be left to harden before sanding.

Wooden floor repair companies use state-of-the-art machines for sanding that have been developed in Scandinavia, where there is a long history of Wood Floor Restoration.  Dustless floor sanding machines were developed there and they have now been imported into the UK by floor sanding and polishing companies serving a recently resurgent market in wood floor repairs. 

Osmo, Junckers, Bona and Blanchon supply the heavy sanding machines that work in an eco friendly manner to create the perfect sanded surface, ready for the application stain and varnish finishing coats. 

Restoring Wooden Floors

Wood flooring is all the rage these days and the old fitted carpets are going out of fashion.  Carpets can be warm in winter and create a cosy atmosphere, but there is nothing quite like a real wood floor and if you have children it is far more hygienic.  Anyone with asthma will notice the difference as soon as they step into a home with sparkling wood floors, which are also easier to keep clean than carpets.  Carpets excel at trapping dust and mites, but with a wood floor they become a distant memory.

Floor Sanding Services abound and it is extremely easy to find a wooden floor repair company to restore your existing floorboards or you could have a brand new hardwood floor installed by a specialist company.  Alternatively, with a little instruction, you could even sand an existing floor yourself.  It is not a difficult DIY project; the only really tricky bit is attaching the sandpaper to the sander drum, but if you ask the staff at the tool hire store they will be happy to show you how to do it.  Hire a heavy upright sander for the main job and a small, square sander, with twin handles, for the finishing and edges.

Prepare the floor by hammering any protrusions flush with the surface, pull faulty nails out, replace pieces of broken timber and the floor is ready for sanding.  Go across the floorboards with the upright sander before following the line of the boards.  Finish off with the smaller sander, in both cases moving from coarse to fine sandpaper as you complete each run.