Floor Sanding Exmouth

Floor Sanding and Wood Floor Restoration in Exmouth, Devon

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Floor Sanding Across Exmouth and the Exe Estuary

Exmouth has a better stock of period housing than most Devon seaside towns. The Beacon and Louisa Terrace are Georgian and Regency, there is a broad belt of Victorian and Edwardian terraces behind the front, and a large modern town spreading out towards Littleham and Brixington.

That means we see the full range here, from wide early pine on the older terraces to engineered oak in a new build off the Exeter road. Each needs a different approach, and pretending otherwise is how floors get ruined.

We cover Exmouth, Lympstone, Woodbury, Budleigh Salterton, East Budleigh, Otterton, Littleham, Exton and across to Topsham and Exeter.

Georgian and Regency Floors on the Front

The seafront and Beacon properties often hide genuinely good floors under a century of carpet and hardboard. Wide pine, sometimes pitch pine, occasionally oak in the better rooms, usually with a fair amount of history in the form of old nail holes, hearth patches and pipe runs.

Many of these buildings are listed or sit in the conservation area. Refinishing what is there is normally fine, but lifting or replacing historic boards can need listed building consent from East Devon District Council, so it is worth a call before work starts.

Our habit on old timber is minimum removal. We take off what is needed to get a sound, even surface and no more, because there is only so much floor and it is not coming back.

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Salt Air, Sand and the Estuary

Exmouth floors face two things at once: sand off the two miles of beach, and the damp that comes with living on an estuary. Sand is abrasive and grinds a finish down along the walking lines. Estuary air keeps humidity high, which keeps timber moving.

The result is a very recognisable pattern, a worn track from the front door to the kitchen with the rest of the room barely touched, and cupping on boards near external walls where the sub-floor cannot breathe.

We check ventilation before we quote, take moisture readings, and specify a harder finish nearer the front. A good coir mat at every external door does more for a seaside floor than any product on the market.

Dust-Free Sanding While You Stay Put

We run industrial extraction on every machine, which captures the great majority of dust as it is created rather than letting it settle over the house. Compared with hired equipment it is a different job entirely.

We sheet doorways, protect what has to stay in the room and clean as we go. Most Exmouth customers stay in the house while we work, and we plan the order of rooms so you always have somewhere to sit and a way to the stairs.

If you have asthma, a young family or you are letting the property, say so at survey and we will take extra steps and schedule around it.

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Holiday Lets, Rentals and Second Homes

Exmouth has a lot of let property and the constraint is always the calendar. We work around changeovers, use rapid-cure sealers so the floor is back in service quickly, and can deal with your agent directly if you live away.

For lets we usually recommend a two-pack water-based lacquer over oil. Repairability matters less than durability when you cannot take the property off the market to do maintenance in August.

Late autumn and February are the sensible windows. If your floor can wait for a quiet month, you get more of our time and a longer cure before the season starts.

Commercial Floors in Exmouth

We work for pubs, restaurants, cafes, hotels and shops along the front and in the town, plus church and village halls, schools, colleges, nurseries, gyms and sports halls across east Devon.

Sports and dance floors are sanded back, 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.

Hospitality work happens overnight or on closed days with fast-cure sealers so you lose a session rather than a week. School and college halls we book into the holidays, usually a term or more in advance, because those windows are fixed and they fill.

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Costs, Timings and Booking

Sanding and sealing in Exmouth generally runs between twenty-five and forty pounds a square metre. Parquet is higher because it is slower and less forgiving. Stairs are priced per tread, and gap filling, board replacement and repairs are quoted line by line.

The survey is free, takes about half an hour, and produces a written quote that is what you pay unless the scope changes.

Ring 01823 674562 or use the contact form. Send a wide photograph of the room and a close one of the worst patch and we can usually give you a sensible range before we drive over.

Nearby areas we also cover: Budleigh Salterton, Exeter, Axminster and Barnstaple. There is a page for each, and the full list of towns is on our areas we cover page.

FAQ: Floor Sanding in Exmouth

Exmouth, Lympstone, Woodbury, Budleigh Salterton, East Budleigh, Otterton, Littleham and Exton, plus Topsham, Exeter and the wider east Devon coast.

Usually twenty-five to forty pounds a square metre for sanding and sealing. Parquet is higher, stairs are per tread, and repairs are quoted separately. Survey and written quote are free.

Yes. Refinishing an existing floor is normally acceptable, but lifting or replacing historic boards may need listed building consent from East Devon District Council. We will speak to your conservation officer if that helps.

Yes. Sand walked in acts as an abrasive on the finish, and estuary humidity keeps timber moving. We specify harder finishes near the front and always recommend proper matting at external doors.

We use industrial extraction, which takes the great majority of dust at the machine. It is not literally zero, but you will not be cleaning the house for a fortnight afterwards.

Almost always. We work room by room, keep a route through the property, and tell you which rooms are out of use on which days.

A two-pack water-based lacquer, in most cases. It is tougher than oil, cures quickly and does not need taking out of service for maintenance in peak season.

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. In older seafront properties we usually recommend timber slivers rather than resin, because the boards still move seasonally and slivers move with them.

Yes. Pubs, restaurants, cafes, hotels, shops, halls, churches, schools, colleges, nurseries, gyms and sports halls including line marking. Nights, closed days and school holidays all suit us.

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