Floor Sanding Frome

Floor Sanding and Wood Floor Restoration in Frome

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Floor Sanding Across Frome

Frome has more listed buildings than any other town in Somerset, and once you have walked up Catherine Hill or through the Trinity area you understand why. The town grew on wool and cloth from the seventeenth century onwards, and a remarkable amount of that fabric survived because the industry declined before the Victorians could rebuild it.

We are in the same county, about an hour away, so surveys are straightforward and usually within the week.

We cover Frome, Trinity, Keyford, Berkley, Beckington, Rode, Nunney, Mells, Buckland Dinham and Coleford, plus Radstock, Midsomer Norton, Shepton Mallet, Warminster and Westbury.

Trinity Weavers Cottages and Georgian Town Houses

The Trinity area is one of the earliest surviving industrial housing schemes in the country — built for cloth workers from the 1660s onwards, and now largely listed. The floors in those cottages are narrow softwood or elm over shallow joists, thin from three centuries of wear and scrubbing, and frequently sanded at least once already.

We measure before we commit. Where a floor has had its last sand, the honest recommendation is a screen and recoat: lightly abrading the existing finish so a fresh coat bonds, which removes no timber and costs around a third as much. On a three-hundred-year-old cottage floor that is very often the right answer.

The Georgian merchant houses higher up the town are more generous — wider, better-cut boards over deeper joists, with more thickness to work with, though most have seen a sanding or two as well.

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Steep Streets, Access and Working Practicalities

Frome is built on a hill and several of the best streets are the least accessible. Catherine Hill is cobbled and steep, Gentle Street is steeper, and a good many of the terraces have no parking anywhere near the front door.

Tell us about access when you get in touch — where a van can go, whether there is a loading window, whether the property is up a flight of steps. It sounds mundane and it genuinely affects how a job runs and what it costs, and it is far better sorted in advance than discovered on the morning.

Working in a listed cottage on a narrow street also means being considerate about noise and hours. We work to whatever suits you and the neighbours, and we sheet the route in as well as the room itself.

Listed Buildings and Conservation Consent

With over a thousand listed buildings in the town, this comes up on most Frome jobs.

In a listed property the original floorboards are usually part of what is protected. Sanding and refinishing an existing floor rarely requires listed building consent. Replacing boards, altering the floor structure or changing the material generally does, and carrying out unauthorised works to a listed building is a criminal offence rather than an administrative slip.

Where there is any doubt we produce a written method statement setting out grits, finishes and precisely what will and will not be removed, which you can put to the conservation officer before anything starts. It adds a fortnight at the front of a job and has never yet cost a customer the work.

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Pubs, Halls, Schools and Commercial Floors

Frome has an unusually lively independent trade for a town its size — pubs, restaurants, cafes, galleries and shops, alongside the church and village halls of the surrounding parishes, school and college halls, and sports halls.

These jobs run to your calendar rather than ours. Pubs and restaurants want us finished before the weekend, schools want the holidays, halls want the gap between bookings. We work evenings and weekends where it helps, phase the job so you can keep trading, and run full dust extraction so neighbouring areas stay usable.

Commercial specification differs from domestic: a commercial-grade lacquer for heavy traffic, slip-resistant finishes where they matter in kitchens and entrances, and line marking handled as part of the job on sports floors.

Why Frome Customers Choose Us

Forty-five years of restoring wood floors, all of it based in Somerset, and a great deal of experience in listed property where the skill is knowing how little to take off rather than how much.

Sealed dust extraction on every job as standard, which matters in old cottages where dust travels through gaps you cannot see. Fixed written prices agreed before we start. Furniture moved by us, the property and the route in protected, all waste taken away.

Fully insured, comfortable working alongside conservation officers, 4.9 stars from 114 Google reviews.

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Book a Free Frome Floor Survey

Tell us where in Frome you are, whether the building is listed, and what the access is like. All three shape what we would propose and what it costs.

Surveys are free, usually within the week, and carry no obligation. We will tell you honestly if the right answer on a three-hundred-year-old floor is to clean and recoat it rather than sand it again.

Call 01823 674562, email info@ryansrestoration.co.uk, or use the form on this page.

Nearby areas we also cover: Midsomer Norton, Shepton Mallet, Burnham-on-Sea and Castle Cary. There is a page for each, and the full list of towns is on our areas we cover page.

FAQ: Floor Sanding in Frome

Frome, Trinity, Keyford, Berkley, Beckington, Rode, Nunney, Mells, Buckland Dinham and Coleford, plus Radstock, Midsomer Norton, Shepton Mallet, Warminster and Westbury.

Sanding and refinishing an existing floor rarely needs it. Replacing boards, altering the structure or changing materials usually does, and unauthorised work to a listed building is a criminal offence. We provide a written method statement for your conservation officer.

Sometimes, but carefully. Those boards are narrow, thin and three centuries old, and many have been sanded at least once. We measure remaining thickness first and often recommend a screen and recoat instead.

Lightly abrading the existing finish so a fresh coat bonds to it, then applying that coat. It removes no timber, takes about a day and costs roughly a third of a full sand. On a very old floor it is frequently the right answer.

It can be. Catherine Hill and Gentle Street are steep and several terraces have no parking near the door. Tell us about access when you get in touch and we will plan around it rather than working it out on the morning.

Usually within the week. We are about an hour away in the same county, which keeps travel out of your price.

Regularly — Frome has a lively independent trade. We work evenings and weekends where it helps, phase the job so you keep trading, and run dust extraction so neighbouring areas stay usable.

Yes, including line marking as part of the job and the correct slip-resistant finishes for sports use. We work to school holiday windows.

We would rather it did not. Over-sanding a three-hundred-year-old floor strips out colour depth that no finish will put back. We take the damage off and leave the character.

It depends on size, condition, access and finish. Listed work often takes longer because of the lighter approach required, and that is built into a fixed written price rather than added later.

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Once your floor has been professionally sanded and finished, it is important to take steps to maintain its appearance and durability.

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