Newsletter 6: Floor Care and Mainternance

Newsletter 6: Floor Care and Mainternance

Introduction Your timber floor is a significant investment. With some sensible care and maintenance, you can keep your timber floor looking beautiful for years! Routine basic maintenance should include regular sweeping, vacuuming or dust mopping as well as mopping...
Newsletter 4: Gaps in Floors

Newsletter 4: Gaps in Floors

It is that time of the year when the skies are blue and everything is very dry. Timber floors are a hygroscopic material, (they gain or lose moisture) and they react to these dry times and gaps start to appear. These gaps can appear quite suddenly and may continue to...
Newsletter 3: Sustainability

Newsletter 3: Sustainability

Did you know up to 50% of the dried weight of your solid timber floor is carbon that has been absorbed from the atmosphere while the trees grew? The carbon sequestered in wooden flooring is stored for life, lowering the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere,...
Newsletter 2: Joists

Newsletter 2: Joists

To ensure a high quality and great performing floor, it is imperative that as much thought and care that goes into the floor, also goes into the subfloor. Apart from the subfloor needing to be as flat as possible and set to the correct height, it must also have the...