Repair service
Gap filling and board repairs.
Resin-and-dust slurry for narrow gaps, slivered pine for wider ones, board swaps for water damage. We finish so the repair is invisible once the floor is sealed.
Resin-and-dust slurry for narrow gaps, slivered pine for wider ones, board swaps for water damage. We finish so the repair is invisible once the floor is sealed.
Most older floors have moved. Boards shrink in winter, lift around radiators, split where nails have rusted out. Sanding alone won't fix any of it, the gaps just look cleaner. We treat repair as a step of its own, before the floor is finished, so the finished surface reads as one piece.
Our approach depends on the size of the gap. Narrow gaps we fill with a slurry of sanding dust from your floor and a tinted resin, so it takes stain and lacquer the same way the surrounding wood does. Anything wider gets a sliver of seasoned pine, glued and trimmed flush. Boards beyond saving we lift and replace with stock matched to your timber.
Tinted to your floor and finished alongside it. Best for hairline to ~3 mm gaps.
Seasoned pine wedges glued in and trimmed flush before sanding. Holds where slurry would crack out.
Water-damaged, rotted or split boards lifted and replaced with matched stock. Colour-matched at finishing stage.
Loose boards re-screwed into joists from above and plug-filled, or from below where access allows.
We mark up gaps, splits and damaged boards on the survey and quote them in. No surprises mid-job.
Repairs go in before the final sand so the patches and slurry come back through level with the rest of the floor.
Stain (if any) and Bona finish go on as one continuous coat, so repairs disappear into the floor.
Slurry takes stain because it's made from your own sanding dust. Pine slivers are sanded back with the boards and finish to the same tone. From standing height, repairs read as the floor itself.
Slurry tops out around 3 mm. Anything wider we'll use pine slivers or swap the board. We talk you through the options on the survey.
Slurry can over very wide gaps, which is why we won't use it on them. Pine slivers and full board swaps hold permanently.
Usually yes. We lift affected boards, dry and treat the subfloor if needed, and replace with matched stock. The patch is colour-matched at finishing stage.
Sealed-extraction full sand-back using Bona and Lägler rigs. The fine dust traditional sanding leaves behind doesn't end up on your shelves, in your bedding or in your lungs.
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Scandinavian whites, fumed oak, smoked walnut, deep ebony. We bring sample boards into your home so you choose the colour with your own light, your own walls and your own floor.
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Bona Craft Oil and Osmo Polyx. A natural matt look that lets the grain breathe, repairable in patches without re-sanding, walkable the same evening it's applied.
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The toughest commercial-grade lacquer on the market. Used in hotels, galleries and listed buildings, low-VOC and walkable in 12 hours.
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Lifting, re-gluing, levelling and refinishing original blocks. Herringbone, chevron, basket-weave and field-and-border. Listed-building experience.
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