Het werk gaat door · Eight stages
Sanding a wooden floor: everything you need to know — laid out in the order it actually happens, from the first survey to the way the floor reads years later.
Eight promises, in order
Pick one to jump straight to the stage where it is earned.
The timeline
The boards are checked for thickness left above the tongue, moisture, hidden filler, staples and old adhesive. Herringbone, panels, a rotten corner under a radiator — whatever the floor turns out to be, you hear it on the spot and see it written into the scope.
Every complexity — the mission is possible
Doorways are screened, the machines are hooked to extraction that bags the dust at the source, and the first coarse pass takes off the old finish and the grey, dead top of the wood. This is the moment a tired floor stops being a covering and becomes timber again.
Give your hardwood floor a second life
Everything the coarse pass exposed gets dealt with before any finish goes near it: loose boards refixed, damaged sections cut back to a joist and replaced in matched wood, wide gaps wedged, fine ones filled with paste made from your own sanding dust. Herringbone and panel borders are re-cut so the pattern reads as one piece.
Elegant design solutions
Each pass removes the marks of the pass before it until the grain is closed and the surface is flat. Edges and corners are machined separately, then blended into the field so you cannot find where one machine stopped. The floor is checked in raking light before anything is applied.
Your floor looks like new again
Oil, hardwax and lacquer are brushed onto the floor you have just had sanded, not onto a showroom offcut. You judge them at midday and again in the evening, matt beside satin beside gloss, and the recommendation follows how the room is actually used.
Matt or gloss — everyone chooses for themselves
Oil is worked into the grain and the surplus buffed off; lacquer is rolled in one direction over a primer with edges cut in by hand. Rooms are done one at a time, stairs in halves, so the house stays liveable while the last coat is laid.
The closing chord for your floor
Socks the next day, furniture after two or three, rugs after one to two weeks — a surface still curing under a rug stays soft and prints. At handover you get the care products, the schedule for the first weeks and a walk round the finished floor in daylight.
The result will exceed your expectations
Vacuum before you mop, felt under every chair leg, a maintenance coat in the hallway when the traffic route starts to dull. Do that little and the floor keeps the depth it got on day two — and the room reads finished rather than renovated.
It really does look noble and luxuriousSend the room sizes and a photo of the floor. You get an honest read of what it needs, a written quote, and a date for day one.