Floor Sanding Harpenden

Harpenden town, Wheathampstead, Redbourn, Kinsbourne Green, Batford and Southdown, plus St Albans, Luton and the surrounding Hertfordshire villages.

For wide boards like Harpenden’s, timber slivers rather than resin. Slivers are cut to taper, tapped in individually and sanded flush, and they move with the board through the seasons. Resin and dust is cheaper but tends to crack out of wide boards within a couple of winters.

Yes, and the 1920s and 30s houses here have a lot of it. Loose blocks are re-laid, missing ones matched, and the floor is sanded across several directions because the grain runs different ways in each block.

Yes. Stairs are priced per tread rather than by area because almost all of it is hand work. A restored pitch pine staircase changes a hallway more than any other single job we do.

We would rather it did not. Over-sanding a period floor strips out the colour depth that took a century to build. We take the damage off and leave the character, which is what suits a house of this age.

Usually hard wax oil or a satin lacquer. High gloss rarely sits well in period rooms and shows every ripple in an old floor. Oil also has the advantage of being repairable in patches later without redoing the whole room.

Very little. We run sealed extraction at the machine on every job as standard, so the dust is captured before it reaches the air and you can carry on living in the house.

It depends on the area, the condition of the boards and the finish. We give a fixed written price after surveying the floor. Photographs will get you an indication the same day.

A single room is a day to sand plus a day or two for the finish. Larger period houses doing several rooms and a hall usually run to a week. We phase the work so you always have somewhere to live.

Yes, with no obligation. We will also tell you if your floor does not need the work yet — a buff and recoat is often all that is required and costs considerably less.