Floor Sanding Braunton

Floor Sanding and Wood Floor Restoration in Braunton and Woolacombe

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Floor Sanding in Braunton, Croyde and Woolacombe

Braunton claims to be the largest village in England and it is the gateway to some of the best beaches in the country. Older cottages and Victorian terraces around Caen Street and the church, twentieth century expansion up the hill, and beyond it Saunton, Croyde, Georgeham and Woolacombe, which are almost entirely holiday and surf economy.

Between the village and the sea lie Braunton Burrows, one of the largest dune systems in Britain, and that sand ends up in a great many floors.

We cover Braunton, Saunton, Croyde, Georgeham, Woolacombe, Mortehoe, Wrafton, Knowle, Heanton Punchardon and Chivenor, plus Barnstaple, Bideford and Ilfracombe.

Blown Sand, Wetsuits and Surf-Town Wear

Floors here take more abrasion than almost anywhere we work. Sand from the Burrows and the beaches is fine enough to get everywhere and coarse enough to act as a grinding paste on a floor finish, and it does not just get walked in, it blows in.

Add wetsuits, boards and dogs coming through the house all summer, salt-laden air keeping humidity high, and older property whose sub-floor voids no longer breathe.

The result is a floor worn through along the walking lines while the rest looks nearly new, plus cupping near external walls. We take moisture readings before quoting, we will not sand a wet floor, and we specify harder finishes here as standard. Generous coir matting at every door is not optional in this village.

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Holiday Lets and Changeover Weeks

A very large share of property around Croyde and Woolacombe is let, and the constraint is always the calendar. The gap between bookings is short and every day of it is worth real money.

We plan around it with rapid-cure sealers, extra hands on site to compress the job into the window, and starts timed for the moment the cleaners are out. Where a property is agency managed we deal with the agent directly and send photographs of the finished work if you live away.

For lets we recommend a two-pack water-based lacquer over oil almost every time. November and February are the sensible booking windows, and you will get more of our time and far easier access.

What Is Under the Carpet

In the older Braunton property what comes up is usually pine, sometimes wide in the oldest cottages, laid over joists or sleeper walls depending on the age of the building.

Expect gripper nail holes round the perimeter, staple holes across the middle, a darker rectangle where a rug sat, and paint from decorating. All routine.

The newer housing is more of a lottery. Softwood boards sand happily, chipboard cannot be sanded at all, and engineered flooring depends entirely on how much wear layer is left, typically two to six millimetres when new against about one removed by a full sand. We check a cut edge or threshold and give you a definitive answer rather than a guess.

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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.

We sheet doorways, protect what stays in the room and clean as we go. In a let that matters twice over, because the place has to be handed back guest-ready rather than merely tidy.

Most homeowners stay put while we work. We go room by room, keep a route through the house and tell you what is out of action on which days.

Commercial and Hospitality Floors

This coast runs on hospitality and surf tourism and both are hard on floors. We work for pubs, restaurants, cafes, bars, surf shops, hotels and guest houses, plus church and village halls, schools, nurseries, gyms, dance studios and sports halls across north 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.

Hospitality work is done overnight, on closed days or in the shoulder season with fast-cure sealers so you lose one service rather than a week. School floors go into holiday windows booked ahead.

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Costs, Travel and Booking

Sanding and sealing around Braunton generally runs twenty-five to forty pounds a square metre, with a screen and recoat costing considerably less where that is all a floor needs. Parquet is higher. Stairs are per tread and repairs are quoted line by line.

North Devon is a run from Somerset, so we group jobs in the area into a trip. A little flexibility on dates usually gets you a better slot and a quicker start.

Ring 01823 674562 or use the contact form. Send a wide photograph of the room, a close one of the worst area, and if you can lift a threshold, a shot of a board edge.

Nearby areas we also cover: Barnstaple, Bideford, Ilfracombe and Woolacombe. There is a page for each, and the full list of towns is on our areas we cover page.

FAQ: Floor Sanding in Braunton

Braunton, Saunton, Croyde, Georgeham, Woolacombe, Mortehoe, Wrafton, Knowle, Heanton Punchardon and Chivenor, plus Barnstaple, Bideford and Ilfracombe.

More than almost anything else. Sand from the Burrows is fine enough to get everywhere and coarse enough to act as a grinding paste on the finish. Generous coir matting at every door is essential here.

Constantly, and most of our work around Croyde and Woolacombe is let property. We plan around changeovers, use rapid-cure sealers and can liaise with a managing agent directly.

A two-pack water-based lacquer. It is far harder wearing than oil, copes with sand and wetsuits, and does not need taking out of service for maintenance in the season.

Sometimes. It depends how much wear layer is left, typically two to six millimetres when new against about one removed by a full sand. We check a cut edge or threshold before quoting.

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

November and February. You get more of our time, a better price, easier access and a proper cure well before the season starts.

We use industrial extraction which captures the great majority of dust at the machine. Not literally zero, but a completely different experience from hired kit.

A single room is about two days and a full downstairs three to four. Lacquer is walkable within hours, oil wants a day before light use.

Yes. Pubs, restaurants, cafes, bars, surf shops, hotels, guest houses, halls, churches, schools, nurseries, gyms, dance studios and sports halls including line marking.

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