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Colours in wooden floors world

Hardwood floors doesn’t have to be a sea of brown. The traditional and classic choice of home owners is brown colour and it’s varies, but these days we see an interest in new visions and more colourful designs of home and office interiors and also wood floors. Universally available finish colours suggest wonderful array of whites, browns, blacks and reds and even blue ones!

Traditionally, hardwood flooring came in thick planks of solid timber. Today, solid hardwood is still widely available, but many of our clients also prefer an engineered flooring. It is made of planks with a thinner top layer of hardwood, bonded to other layers and designed to prevent the floor from shifting during expansion or contraction cycles.

Solid wood from other side is generally installed over one or two layers of plywood, which can raise the height of a floor and interfere with existing doors or marginally reduced ceiling height but their long lasting is a big advantage! Choose carefully and contact with experts if you have new ideas for the colour of your floors, because some engineered floors have top layers so thin that they can’t be sanded and refinished in the future, and solid particles of pigment suspended in a solvent, applied to wood to darken or change its natural colour, but if you want to get out of the brown one you need to take advantage of flooring samples and choose the best for you with the help of our experts!

Hardwood flooring - luxury or necessary?

Everyone wants to have luxurious and beautiful homes and for that they are willing to spend money on them. Flooring is quite important factor in each home interior and it completes the whole look of the area. Nowadays flooring for homes is available in different materials. An old saying says that while building a new house, flooring is the thing which cannot be ignored. This is why the elegance and benefits of hardwood flooring can not be ignored. 

Solid hardwood is a versatile flooring it is a good choice for main living areas, kitchens, dens and offices and many more! Hardwood floors handle the foot traffic better than any other floor type. When you have children with many toys, and even dogs or other pets this is the right choice for your home interior.With a quality protective coat, along with normal maintenance and cleaning, hardwood floors will be looking great for many decades. This is a seriously durable flooring option. One more benefit of a hardwood floors is that they are easy to clean, and allergens can be removed quickly with a slightly damp mop. Even if one day you need to sale the property with a hardwood floors, they bring quality, warmth and elegance that can make them great advantage!

 These floors can be refinished five to seven times before they need to be replaced. Therefore, their life can extend to hundred years or more. If you compare the total cost of a hardwood flooring over fifty years with other types that need to be replaced every three years- the cost is quite competitive ! So luxury or necessary, we think that it is much more of a smart choice!

The loss of sanding your floors by your own

Floor sanding is a process with three stages: preparation, sanding and coating with a protective layer. Each stage is important by its own, because if one of them is not done properly it can ruin your floor. Usually floors which are suitable for this are between 7 and 10 year old, but of course it depends on how you treat the floor too. You can do floor sanding every ten years, but that depends on how many layers is your wood floor made of too.

Some of them also may need a major or minor repairs. The repairs may include: removing or replacement of damaged boards, fixing any loose floorboards, removing old tracks and rusted nails, protruding nails are hammered and many more.The floor need to be whole and flat. The room need to be prepared too. It needs to be "naked", removing carpets, electronics, furniture etc. Then you will need to inspect that every detail of the first mentioned have been done properly. Now the actual floor sanding can begin. The second step of the floor sanding include removing the old layer of sealants and its paint. This is done by have machines. If you decide to do this by your own, you will need belt sander, edge sander, finishing sanders, dust extractor, random orbitals and detail sanders so it is better to search for a proper company. The good brand machines like this are expensive, that's why I mentioned floor sanding companies are sometime more inexpensive. 

Also must know fact is that you will need to wear a suitable respirator mask and suit. When the upper lair of your wooden floor is being removed, sometimes you may see unpleasant surprise underneath – worms eaten cores. This problem can affect floor appearance and its value. Also, if the situation is really bad you may need to replace the whole floor. This stage is optional. Staining is another name for painting. If you want to change the colour of your wood, the moment after sanding and before polishing is the time. Of course, a special paint needs to be used. Sometimes you will need to put some more layers of the paint to get the wanted colour. The last stage from sanding your wooden floor is sealing and you can decide what to use - a natural oil or hard wax oil or lacquer. This last touch is protecting your floors from stains, weather conditions, furniture, and human harming.

If you are going to search for a professional sanding company, you need to contact with our fine experts!