Floor Sanding Ashburton

Floor Sanding and Wood Floor Restoration in Ashburton, Devon

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Floor Sanding in Ashburton and Southern Dartmoor

Ashburton is an old stannary town on the southern edge of Dartmoor, and it has one of the most attractive small town centres in Devon. Slate-hung frontages on North Street and East Street, medieval building lines behind Georgian faces, and a good number of genuinely old buildings around the church.

Beyond the town the moor takes over, with granite cottages at Buckland in the Moor, Widecombe and Holne, and the wooded Dart valley running down towards Buckfastleigh.

The floors match the buildings. Wide oak and elm in the oldest properties, Georgian and Victorian pine above and behind, and a good deal of previous repair everywhere.

We cover Ashburton, Buckfastleigh, Buckland in the Moor, Widecombe, Holne, Bickington, Ilsington, Landscove, Staverton and Dean Prior, plus Newton Abbot, Totnes and Bovey Tracey.

Historic Buildings and Listed Consent

A great deal of central Ashburton is listed and the whole centre is a conservation area. Refinishing an existing floor is generally acceptable, but lifting boards, replacing timber, altering levels or changing the character of a historic surface can need listed building consent from Teignbridge District Council or the Dartmoor National Park Authority depending on where you are.

With buildings of this age it is worth a call before anything starts. We have worked on plenty of listed floors and are happy to speak to your conservation officer.

Our default on historic timber is minimum removal. Finer grits, more passes, and no attempt to flatten out centuries of settlement. Wear is character rather than damage, and once it is sanded away it does not come back.

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Dartmoor Rainfall and Sub-Floor Damp

Ashburton sits at the foot of the moor and the rainfall here is high, with saturated ground through much of the winter. Sub-floor damp is a regular finding, particularly in the older buildings and the moor edge cottages.

The symptoms are consistent: cupped boards near external walls, blown or milky finishes in the same band, and occasionally soft timber where a joist end bears into wet granite or masonry.

The cause is rarely a leak. It is nearly always a void that has stopped breathing, because airbricks were blocked, rendered over or buried by a raised path, or because a concrete floor elsewhere in the building stopped the airflow through.

We take moisture readings before quoting and we will not sand a wet floor. We tell you plainly what to fix and come back when the readings are right.

Dust-Free Sanding in an Old Building

Our machines run to industrial extraction rather than the cloth bags fitted to hire equipment, capturing the great majority of dust as it is created.

In an old building with lime plaster, exposed beams and a tight stair that is not optional. Fine dust settles into every joint and lime plaster does not take kindly to being scrubbed.

We sheet doorways, protect what stays in the room and clean as we go. Access in the centre can be awkward, so tell us at survey where we can park and unload and we will plan the day around it.

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Commercial Floors Around Ashburton

We work for pubs, restaurants, cafes, hotels and shops in Ashburton and the moor villages, plus church and village halls, schools, colleges, nurseries, gyms, dance studios and sports halls across south Devon.

Sports halls and dance floors are sanded back to clean timber, re-marked to the correct governing body specification for badminton, netball, basketball or five-a-side, then sealed with a proper sports system that keeps grip rather than turning glassy.

Village halls we normally complete inside a single closed week, which suits committees who cannot lose a month of bookings. Pubs and restaurants are done overnight or on closed days with fast-cure sealers. School floors go into holiday windows booked a term or more ahead.

Finishes for an Old Devon House

Hardwax oil is almost always our recommendation in old Ashburton property. It penetrates the timber rather than forming a plastic film, which is right in a building where everything else breathes, and it can be repaired locally rather than by redoing a whole room.

For shops, cafes and rentals, or anywhere taking wet boots off the moor, a two-pack water-based lacquer is harder and cures faster, and it does not amber with age.

Very old oak and elm take colour unpredictably, especially where generations of wax have soaked in. We lay trial patches on your own floor and leave them a full day. Finding blotching on a test patch is far better than finding it across a whole room.

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Costs, Timings and Booking

Sanding and sealing in Ashburton generally runs twenty-five to forty pounds a square metre. Parquet is higher. Stairs are priced per tread, and gap filling, board replacement and repairs are quoted line by line.

The survey is free and takes about half an hour. We measure the remaining timber, take moisture readings, look at ventilation and access, and tell you what the floor genuinely needs, including when the honest answer is to leave it alone.

Ring 01823 674562 or use the contact form. A wide photograph of the room and a close one of the worst area will usually get you a realistic range before anyone visits.

Nearby areas we also cover: Bovey Tracey, Buckfastleigh, Newton Abbot and Totnes. There is a page for each, and the full list of towns is on our areas we cover page.

FAQ: Floor Sanding in Ashburton

Ashburton, Buckfastleigh, Buckland in the Moor, Widecombe, Holne, Bickington, Ilsington, Landscove, Staverton and Dean Prior, plus Newton Abbot, Totnes and Bovey Tracey.

Refinishing an existing floor is normally acceptable, but lifting, replacing or altering historic timber can need listed building consent from Teignbridge District Council or the Dartmoor National Park Authority. Ask before starting.

Generally twenty-five to forty pounds a square metre for sanding and sealing, higher for parquet. Stairs are per tread and repairs quoted separately. Survey and quote are free.

High rainfall off Dartmoor and saturated ground through the winter, combined with sub-floor voids that have stopped breathing because airbricks were blocked, rendered over or buried.

Not if it is done carefully. We measure the remaining timber, use finer grits and more passes, and take off the minimum needed to get a sound surface.

Usually it should not be. Centuries of settlement cannot be sanded out without removing far too much timber. We ease the worst of it and are honest about the rest.

We use industrial extraction which captures the great majority of dust at the machine. In a lime-plastered building with exposed beams that makes an enormous difference.

A single room is about two days and a full downstairs three to four. Oil wants a day before light use and a week before rugs. Lacquer is quicker.

Yes, and in historic property we strongly prefer timber slivers to resin, because these boards still move a good deal seasonally and slivers move with them.

Yes. Pubs, restaurants, cafes, hotels, shops, village and church halls, schools, colleges, nurseries, gyms, dance studios and sports halls including line marking.

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