Floor Sanding Crewkerne

Floor Sanding and Wood Floor Restoration in Crewkerne, Somerset

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Floor Sanding in Crewkerne and South Somerset

Crewkerne is built of Ham stone and it was made prosperous by sailcloth and webbing. That money left the town a fine Georgian centre around Market Square and Church Street, a magnificent perpendicular church, and long terraces put up for the mill workers on Abbey Street and South Street.

The Georgian buildings hold wide pine boards over generous joists. The mill terraces have narrower pine, tightly laid over a ventilated void, generally covered over rather than worn out.

We are about forty minutes from our Wellington workshop and in south Somerset regularly, so surveys here are usually within a few days.

We cover Crewkerne, Merriott, Misterton, Haselbury Plucknett, North Perrott, Hinton St George, West Crewkerne, Chiselborough, Norton sub Hamdon and East Chinnock, plus Chard, Ilminster, Yeovil and Bridport.

Ham Stone Buildings and Listed Consent

Much of central Crewkerne 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 Somerset Council.

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

Ham stone is also porous and needs to breathe. Where cement render or modern paint has been applied at some point, moisture goes elsewhere, and often that somewhere is the floor. It is one of the more common causes of cupping we find in this town.

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Mill Terraces and What Is Under the Carpet

The sailcloth and webbing terraces are the bread and butter of what we do here, and the floors are usually better than owners expect.

What comes up is gripper nail holes round the perimeter, staple holes across the middle, a darker rectangle where a rug sat for decades, and paint from a long-ago decorating job. Occasionally a board or two lifted for plumbing and refitted badly.

All of that is routine. We punch proud nails and staples, replace butchered boards with reclaimed timber matched for age and section, sand through the grits and finish properly. In a terrace like this the restored floor usually becomes the best thing in the room, at a fraction of the cost of a new floor of comparable quality.

Sub-Floor Damp and Ventilation

The older Crewkerne property sits on ground that holds water, and sub-floor damp is a regular finding.

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 damp stone.

The cause is nearly always ventilation rather than a leak. Airbricks blocked by planting, rendered over or buried by a raised path, or a void sealed with concrete somewhere in the last fifty years.

We take moisture readings before quoting and we will not sand a wet floor, because it will cup again and the finish will fail within a season. We tell you what needs sorting and come back when the readings are right.

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Dust-Free Sanding

Every machine we run is on industrial extraction, so the great majority of dust is pulled away at the belt rather than drifting through the house and settling for a fortnight afterwards.

In a tall Ham stone townhouse with an open stair that counts for a lot, because anything airborne on the ground floor ends up on the top landing.

We sheet doorways, protect what has to stay in the room and clear up as we go. Almost every customer stays put while we work, and we sequence the rooms so there is always somewhere to sit and a way past.

Commercial Floors Around Crewkerne

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

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.

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Finishes, Costs and Booking

Hardwax oil is what we fit most in period Crewkerne property. It penetrates the timber, keeps the grain visible and can be repaired in patches rather than requiring a whole room to be redone. For family halls, rentals and shops a two-pack water-based lacquer is harder, cures faster and does not yellow with age.

Sanding and sealing generally runs twenty-five to forty pounds a square metre, parquet forty to sixty, stairs by the tread, and repairs quoted line by line.

The survey is free and takes about half an hour. Ring 01823 674562 or use the contact form, and send photographs of the room and the worst area if you can.

Nearby areas we also cover: Ilminster, Wellington, Yeovil and Burnham-on-Sea. There is a page for each, and the full list of towns is on our areas we cover page.

FAQ: Floor Sanding in Crewkerne

Crewkerne, Merriott, Misterton, Haselbury Plucknett, North Perrott, Hinton St George, Chiselborough, Norton sub Hamdon and East Chinnock, plus Chard, Ilminster, Yeovil and Bridport.

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 Somerset Council. Ask before starting.

Ham stone is porous and needs to breathe. Where cement render or modern paint has been applied, moisture is pushed elsewhere, often into the floor. It is a common cause of cupping here.

Usually narrow pine boards in decent order over a ventilated void. Expect gripper and staple holes, a darker patch where a rug sat and some paint. All routine to put right.

We run industrial extraction which captures the great majority of dust at the machine. Not literally zero, but nothing like a hired drum sander.

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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