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Staining or colouring timber floors
The practice of changing the colour or appearance of a timber floor via staining or colouring is not a new idea.
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The practice of changing the colour or appearance of a timber floor via staining or colouring is not a new idea.
The renovation or recoating of prefinished flooring is becoming a more popular request among flooring contractors, particularly for floors in retail environments
Solid T&G timber floors are often re-sanded and coated, and this is part of the benefit of solid timber floors.
When working with cork, each job should be taken on its merits with differences from one site to another likely.
There are a number of aspects that need to be taken into consideration when existing timber floors are re-sanded and coated that the contractor should know and make the owner aware of.
When timber floors and sanded and coated many terms are often used that are at times difficult for those not specifically involved in floor sanding to understand.
When timber floors and sanded and coated many terms are often used that are at times difficult for those not specifically involved in floor sanding to understand.
Functional performance is generally related to after occupancy and includes factors such as wear resistance, slip resistance, ease of maintenance, edge bonding concerns, client health impact etc.
When it comes to solvent based satin finishes they need to be treated with more respect than gloss finishes and both the application technique and the coating environment become more important.
Coated timber floors occasionally experience a condition known as ‘blooming’ which can be both aesthetically unsatisfactory and at times require remedial work such as recoating or even a full re-sand and recoat.
Ghosting traditionally relates to the appearance of lightly coloured boot prints that appear in a floor finish, usually some considerable time after the floor was coated.
Mechanical properties are those physical properties that relate to strength, toughness and durability.
Cupping, peaking and crowning all relate to curvature across the board face – where the board edges are either higher or lower than the centre of the board. In the case of peaking and generally with cupping, the board edges are raised; and with crowning, board edges are lower.
Cork is a durable and natural material with unique properties that make it desirable for flooring. The nature of cork (the bark of a tree) is that it has many enclosed air cells and contains the substance suberin that naturally repells moisture.
Firstly, it needs to be considered that there has been a tradition of solid timber flooring in houses being repaired. Old floors of perhaps 20 or 50 years have often had repairs for many reasons including squeaks, termite damage or water damage.
Traditionally, flooring was held in place by nailing it to the subfloor surface. Floating a floor is an installation system which originated in Sweden in the late 1970s with the development of Pergo, a reinforced laminate flooring product.
Firstly, we need to consider solid timber flooring and how it shrinks and swells with changing relative humidity. This is shown in the adjacent diagram with board expansion occurring under higher humidity conditions and board shrinkage under lower humidity condition.
As the colder months approach us in autumn of each year, that familiar inkling to turn the heater on at night creeps back in. Before you know it, winter is in full swing and the heater is running for half the day and most of the night.
An essential part of timber deck design is to evaluate and include the necessary ventilation. This aspect is not always fully covered by timber supplier…
With solid timber floors the topic of gapping at board edges and the possibility of filling those gaps is a subject often raised.