Floor Sanding Bishops Stortford

Bishops Stortford, Sawbridgeworth, Stansted Mountfitchet, Great Dunmow, Takeley, Much Hadham, Hatfield Heath and Thorley, plus Harlow, Saffron Walden and Ware.

Hard chalk water leaves a fine limescale film that scatters light, so the floor looks tired well before the finish has worn through. A clean and machine buff usually restores it at around a third of the cost of sanding.

Timber slivers rather than resin. Dry chalk ground and central heating mean boards here shrink noticeably in winter, and resin cracks out within a couple of winters. Slivers are cut to taper, tapped in and sanded flush, and they move with the board.

Yes, lightly. Boards behind the Georgian frontages are often much older than the facade and are thin from centuries of wear. We use the finest grit that will do the job and hand-work anything a machine would be heavy with.

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

Fairly often in the interwar housing towards Thorley and Havers Lane, usually oak in the hall and reception rooms. Lift a corner near a doorway and send us a photograph.

On every job as standard and at no extra charge. Sealed extraction captures the dust at the machine so you can stay in the house while we work.

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

A single room is a day to sand plus a day or two for the finish. A whole ground floor is usually three to five days. Repairs and gap filling with slivers add time and we flag that at quoting stage.

Yes, with no obligation, and we will tell you honestly if a buff and recoat would do instead of a full sand.