We supply and/or install all types of wood flooring, including parquet and boards, both solid and engineered. We also repair, restore, and sand/seal all types of wood floors, including floorboards. Our business is based in Southport, Merseyside, and we cover all of the North West, with a countrywide service for larger jobs.
We do not have a showroom, but can provide home visits with samples of the different flooring available. Martin started the business in 1998, and although initially we worked mostly with traditional solid hardwood flooring, we now deal with all types of wood floors. The work is all carried out by our own team of craftsmen, having between us more than 40 years of experience working with wood floors.
In 2018 the business became a limited company and the daily operations became the responsibility of Daniel Bialas, who is a fellow director and joint owner of the business. Martin is taking a much reduced role in the daily management of the business (and finally moving into retirement).
We do not have a showroom, but can provide home visits with samples of the different flooring available. Martin started the business in 1998, and although initially we worked mostly with traditional solid hardwood flooring, we now deal with all types of wood floors. The work is all carried out by our own team of craftsmen, having between us more than 40 years of experience working with wood floors.
In 2018 the business became a limited company and the daily operations became the responsibility of Daniel Bialas, who is a fellow director and joint owner of the business. Martin is taking a much reduced role in the daily management of the business (and finally moving into retirement).
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This is a new floor that we installed in St. Dunstan's church in Liverpool, which is a magnificent listed building. The boards were installed as a floating floor over underfloor heating. This was a bedroom with pine floorboards, which we bleached with lye and then finished with a white pigmented hardwax oil, which killed off the orangey colour that pine takes on over time.
This was an oak chevron floor, with smaller blocks than is often seen with this type of floor, but which was appropriate for the size of room. This was a listed building being restored on behalf of Liverpool University, and we supplied bespoke oak parquet blocks to the exact size of the original blocks, which were not salvageable.
This is a parquetry floor that we supplied and installed (Castell pattern), but the border was a soldier course with an additional black feature line, which is different to the more usual double row of blocks or single board border. With a traditional herringbone parquet floor with a double row border, curves are usually broken down into a series of angles.
This floor had been carpeted over for a long time, and as the layout of the room had been changed over the years the border was missing or wrongly aligned in several places. This is an oak parquet floor that had been in place for some years and the clients wanted to re-finish it, but without the golden colour that oak ages into.
A solid hardwood floor can be successfully installed in most situations, whether over existing floorboards or over solid floors such as concrete or mastic asphalt. Where there are more extreme conditions, such as in conservatories / sun rooms, unheated rooms, bathrooms, or in areas with underfloor heating, a wood floor can be installed, but there will be special considerations, which I would discuss with the customer.
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