Floor Sanding Swindon

Floor Sanding and Wood Floor Restoration in Swindon

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Floor Sanding Across Swindon and North Wiltshire

Swindon is an unusual town for floors because it grew in two very distinct bursts. There is the railway town Brunel built from the 1840s, and there is the enormous post-war expansion that followed. The two produce completely different jobs.

We work across the whole town — Old Town, the Railway Village, Rodbourne, Gorse Hill, Stratton, Wroughton, Highworth, Royal Wootton Bassett, Cricklade and out towards Marlborough and Chippenham.

Quotes are free and we would rather come and look than price off a description. What is under a carpet is genuinely hard to guess.

The Railway Village and Old Town Floors

The Railway Village cottages are among the most interesting floors in Wiltshire. Built for GWR workers in the 1840s and 50s and now largely listed, they typically have narrow softwood boards over shallow joists, often with very little clearance beneath and no damp proofing to speak of.

They are thin. A century and a half of wear plus whatever sanding has already happened means we measure carefully before committing, and quite often the right answer is a light screen and recoat rather than a full sand. Because they are listed, original boards are usually part of what is protected, so minimum intervention is not just good practice, it is the requirement.

Up in Old Town the Georgian and Victorian properties are more generous — wider baltic redwood and pitch pine boards with more thickness to work with and a proper ventilated void underneath.

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Post-War Housing and Hidden Parquet

The town’s expansion from the 1950s onwards brought wood block flooring with it, and a surprising amount is still in place under carpet and laminate in Park North, Park South, Walcot and Penhill.

It is usually oak, sometimes beech, laid in herringbone or brick bond over a concrete screed in bitumen adhesive. Where it has been carpeted since the seventies it often comes up in remarkably good order, because carpet protects wood block rather well.

Restoring it involves lifting and re-laying loose blocks, sourcing matches for missing ones, and sanding across several directions since the grain runs differently in each block. It costs more per square metre than plain boards and it is almost always worth it — a restored parquet floor is the best floor most of these houses will ever have.

Clay, Settlement and Uneven Floors

Parts of Swindon sit on clay, and clay moves. What that produces in practice is floors that are not flat — not cupped boards, which is a moisture problem, but whole areas of floor that have dropped or risen because the structure beneath has shifted.

This matters because a belt sander follows the floor rather than levelling it. Run a machine hard over an undulating floor and you cut deeply into the high spots while barely touching the hollows. On a floor with limited thickness left, that is how you expose nail heads.

We assess flatness before quoting, using a long straight edge rather than guesswork. Where the variation is significant we may recommend lifting and packing joists first, or accept some unevenness deliberately rather than sanding through the boards to chase a perfectly flat surface. Either way you will know before we start.

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Why Swindon Customers Choose Us

Over forty-five years restoring wood floors, and a straightforward approach to what a floor needs. In Swindon that quite often means telling somebody their railway cottage boards should not be sanded again, and that a clean and recoat will give them what they want without spending timber they cannot replace.

Sealed dust extraction runs on every job as standard. Prices are fixed and written down before we start. We move the heavy furniture, protect the rest of the property and take all the waste away with us.

Fully insured, and happy to point you at recent work locally.

Get a Free Swindon Floor Sanding Quote

Send us a photograph of the room from the doorway plus close-ups of the worst areas and rough measurements, and we will come back with a realistic range.

For listed cottages, whole ground floors or anything where the boards need proper assessment we will come out to Swindon at no charge and with no obligation.

Call 01823 674562, email info@ryansrestoration.co.uk, or use the form on this page.

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FAQ: Floor Sanding in Swindon

Old Town, the Railway Village, Rodbourne, Gorse Hill, Stratton, Park North and South, Walcot, Penhill, plus Wroughton, Highworth, Royal Wootton Bassett, Cricklade and out towards Marlborough and Chippenham.

Sometimes, but carefully. Those boards are narrow, thin and around 175 years old, and the cottages are largely listed so the original floors are usually protected. We measure remaining thickness first and often recommend a screen and recoat instead of a full sand.

Lift a corner somewhere out of the way. Post-war Swindon housing in Park North, Park South, Walcot and Penhill frequently has oak or beech wood block underneath, and carpet tends to have preserved it well. Send us a photograph.

Not really. A belt sander follows the floor rather than flattening it, so running it hard over an undulating floor cuts into the high spots and misses the hollows. Where the variation is significant we look at packing joists first, or agree to accept some unevenness rather than sanding through the boards.

Regularly. Original boards are usually part of what the listing protects, so we take a minimum-intervention approach and can put our method in writing for your conservation officer if consent is needed.

It depends on size, condition and finish, and parquet costs more per square metre than plain boards. We give a fixed written price after seeing the floor rather than an estimate that moves.

On every job, included in the price. Sealed extraction captures dust at the machine so you can carry on living in the house while we work.

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. Parquet with a lot of block re-laying takes longer and we say so at quoting stage.

Yes, and where the floor is period we source reclaimed timber of the right age and species so the repair disappears once sanded. New softwood in a Victorian floor always shows.

Yes, with no obligation, and we will tell you if the floor does not need doing yet.

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