Floor Sanding Ottery St Mary

Floor Sanding and Wood Floor Restoration in Ottery St Mary, Devon

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Floor Sanding in Ottery St Mary and the Otter Valley

Ottery St Mary is dominated by its church, a miniature cathedral built by a Bishop of Exeter in the fourteenth century, and the town around it is a pleasing mixture of Georgian frontages, Victorian expansion and older buildings hidden behind later faces.

The Otter valley villages either side are cob and thatch, with much older floors, and the town has grown steadily with modern housing on the edges.

We are about forty minutes away in Wellington and on this side of Devon most weeks, so surveys here are usually within a few days.

We cover Ottery St Mary, West Hill, Tipton St John, Newton Poppleford, Feniton, Payhembury, Talaton, Whimple, Escot and Alfington, plus Honiton, Sidmouth, Exmouth and Exeter.

Town Buildings, Listed Property and Consent

A good part of central Ottery is listed or sits in the 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 East Devon District Council.

It is worth asking before work starts. Consent tends to be straightforward for sensible work and the conversation is far easier beforehand than after.

Our approach on old timber is minimum removal. Finer grits, more passes, and no attempt to level out centuries of settlement, because these boards are often thinner than they look and there is no putting the material back.

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Cob Cottages and Breathable Buildings

The valley villages are cob country, and cob behaves quite differently from brick or stone. It relies on staying dry and on being able to breathe, and a great many cottages have been harmed by cement render or modern paint applied with the best of intentions.

Where that has happened moisture goes elsewhere, and often that somewhere is the floor. We find cupped boards, blown finishes and occasional rot at joist ends bearing into damp cob.

We take moisture readings before quoting and we will not sand a wet floor. With cob the fix is usually about breathability and ventilation rather than damp-proofing, and it is worth getting proper advice first rather than paying for a floor that fails within a season.

Dust-Free Sanding

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

In an old building with lime plaster that matters a great deal, because fine dust settles into the surface and cannot easily be cleaned off without doing damage.

We sheet doorways, protect what stays in the room and clean as we go. Nearly all our customers stay in the house while we work, and we plan the room order so there is always somewhere usable and a route through.

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Commercial Floors Around Ottery

We work for pubs, restaurants, cafes, hotels and shops in the town and the valley villages, plus the church and other churches, village halls, schools, colleges, nurseries, gyms, dance studios and sports halls across east 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 its 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 and Colour

Hardwax oil is what we fit most in period Ottery property. It penetrates the timber rather than forming a plastic film, which is the right behaviour in a cob or lime-plastered building, and it keeps the grain visible instead of flattening it.

Where a floor takes heavy traffic, a family hallway, a rental, a shop, a two-pack water-based lacquer is harder, cures faster and does not yellow with age.

Old boards take colour unevenly, particularly where a rug has shaded part of the floor for decades. We lay trial patches on your own boards and leave them a full day so you can judge them in morning light and under lamps.

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Costs, Timings and Booking

Sanding and sealing in Ottery St Mary generally runs twenty-five to forty pounds a square metre. Parquet is forty to sixty because it is slower and normally needs block repairs. 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, check ventilation and tell you honestly what the floor needs, including when it does not need doing yet.

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 straight away.

Nearby areas we also cover: Exeter, Exmouth, Honiton and Sidmouth. There is a page for each, and the full list of towns is on our areas we cover page.

FAQ: Floor Sanding in Ottery St Mary

Ottery St Mary, West Hill, Tipton St John, Newton Poppleford, Feniton, Payhembury, Talaton, Whimple, Escot and Alfington, plus Honiton, Sidmouth, Exmouth and Exeter.

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

Refinishing an existing floor is normally acceptable, but lifting, replacing or altering historic timber can need listed building consent from East Devon District Council. Ask before starting.

It can. Cob needs to breathe, and cement render or modern paint often pushes moisture into the floor instead. We take readings first and will not sand a floor that is still wet.

Almost always moisture from a sub-floor void that has stopped breathing, usually because airbricks were blocked, rendered over or buried by a raised path.

We run industrial extraction which captures the great majority of dust at the machine. That matters in a lime-plastered building where fine dust is hard to remove safely.

A single room is around 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, nearly everyone does. We work room by room, keep a route through and tell you which rooms are out of use on which days.

Yes. In older property we generally recommend timber slivers rather than resin, because the boards still move with the seasons 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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