Restoration · parquet
Parquet restoration.
Lifting, re-gluing, levelling and refinishing original blocks. Herringbone, chevron, basket-weave and field-and-border. Listed-building experience.
Lifting, re-gluing, levelling and refinishing original blocks. Herringbone, chevron, basket-weave and field-and-border. Listed-building experience.
Original parquet, usually pulled up from under carpet or vinyl, is one of the most rewarding floors to restore. Blocks of oak, walnut or pitch pine, laid in herringbone, chevron or basket-weave patterns, and almost always recoverable even when they look beyond saving. Most of the work is in the lifting and the re-laying, not the sanding.
Each loose block gets cleaned of old bitumen, re-glued onto a flat subfloor with modern adhesive, packed where the levels need correcting, then sanded as a single field once the pattern is back together. Missing blocks we cut from matched reclaimed stock. The finished floor reads as one continuous piece of geometry, even when half the blocks are 100 years old and the other half were laid last week.
Loose blocks lifted, old bitumen scraped, subfloor levelled, blocks re-bonded with modern adhesive.
Reclaimed and new oak parquet matched to the species, age and pattern of your floor.
Damaged borders, missing field sections and broken chevrons rebuilt to the original pattern.
Three-grit sand-back of the whole floor as one piece, then stain (if specified) and your choice of finish.
We map the pattern, count missing or damaged blocks, check subfloor flatness and price accordingly.
Loose blocks lifted, subfloor prepared, blocks re-bonded. Missing pieces cut and inserted.
Once the parquet is back as one continuous surface, we sand it in three grits as if it were a single board.
Stain (whitewashed, fumed, smoked) if requested, then sealed with hard-wax oil or lacquer.
Almost certainly. Even badly degraded parquet usually recovers because the individual blocks are small and easy to replace. We've restored floors that came up with carpet glue and tar in one piece.
Yes. We hold reclaimed oak parquet in stock for the most common UK patterns (herringbone and chevron in 280–300 mm blocks) and source matched stock for unusual sizes.
Engineered parquet, yes, we install it for new floors. Original solid blocks are more sensitive; we'll advise on a case-by-case basis after seeing the subfloor and the heating system.
Not once the whole floor is sanded and finished as one. The single sand-back evens the colour and removes the join lines, and the finish unifies the surface.
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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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.
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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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