Floor Sanding Suffolk

All of it — Ipswich, Bury St Edmunds, Sudbury, Lavenham, Long Melford, Woodbridge, Framlingham, Aldeburgh, Southwold, Beccles, Halesworth, Newmarket, Stowmarket and Lowestoft.

Yes, gently. Boards a foot or more across were cut from mature trees that are not available today, so they cannot realistically be replaced. We use the finest grit that will do the job and accept some unevenness rather than sanding through them.

Tannin staining, where iron and moisture have reacted with the timber, usually around old nail positions. It is chemical rather than surface dirt and goes deeper than sanding reaches. Oxalic treatment lifts some of it.

Usually a hard wax oil. It lets the timber breathe, tolerates the seasonal movement you get in a humid coastal property, and can be repaired in patches rather than redoing the whole room.

Yes, and a lot of our coastal work is exactly that. Tell us your booking windows and we will phase the job. Water-based lacquers take foot traffic within a day. The quiet months book up early.

Yes. We group jobs in the same area into the same week where we can, which keeps travel costs out of your price. Worth asking when we are next over if you are out towards Southwold or Aldeburgh.

Regularly — Suffolk has a great many. Original boards are usually part of what is protected, so we take a minimum-intervention approach and can put our method in writing for your conservation officer.

In a damp county the timber sits at a higher moisture content year-round and never fully swells back. Filling with timber slivers works better than resin because slivers move with the boards.

It depends on size, condition, timber and finish. Oak costs more than softwood and period work takes longer. Send photographs for a same-day indication, or we will survey larger jobs free of charge.

On every job, included in the price. It matters particularly in timber-framed buildings where dust travels through the structure.