Year: 2016
Aftercare for your Wooden Floor: Cleaning and Protecting If you’ve landed yourself and apartment with hardwood floors, lucky you! There will be no power washes and carpet shampooing for you. Our colleagues at bestcleaninglondon.co.uk have compiled this cleaning guide for the uninitiated. Your flooring is relatively simple to take care of and as long as they’re kept in good condition, they’ll give you that classy, sophisticated look for decades to come. General Floor Care: Regular upkeep is the key to a happy hardwood floor. Here are some of the things you can to maintain them regularly: Use a brush or ...
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Wood Floor Finishes The first few hours after floor sanding and restoration are crucial to ensuring that your floor keeps its wonderful finish. Although our products are designed to allow your floor to be ready quickly, you will still need to leave it to dry for a short period of time before you can use it. The floor will usually be touch-dry within 1-3 hours of application, but only the surface will be dry at this stage. You won’t be able to put anything heavy on it for around 8 hours, although you could walk on it briefly with bare ...
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Asthma, Allergies and the benefits of Wooden Floors When it comes to choosing a new floor covering for a room, most of us opt for traditional carpets. But although carpet can look great—unless you have a momentary lapse in good taste and pick the psychedelic colour swirl option—never underestimate the suitability of wooden flooring, particularly if you or other family members suffer from allergies. Allergies to dust, pollen and pet hair are a relatively modern phenomenon. Stone Age man was more likely to be eaten by a sabre-toothed tiger than suffer an asthma attack whilst chasing a woolly mammoth. Indeed, ...
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Best way to draft proof a wooden floor and reduce heating costs A traditional wooden floor will enhance any room in the home, but if wind regularly howls through the gaps between the floorboards and your heating bills are astronomical during winter, draft proofing the floor should be top of your to-do list. Popular DIY home makeover programmes have made wooden floors a highly desirable attribute in recent years. Rather than throwing down a cheap carpet from the local bargain roll-end store, the glamorous stylist opts to sand and polish the pine floorboards instead. But although the end result usually ...
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Wood Floors add Value to your Home There is a common misconception that real wood flooring is a lot more expensive when compared to more traditional types of flooring such as carpets and laminate. But whilst it is possible to spend a small fortune on natural wooden flooring if money is not an issue, it is also important to remember that natural wood flooring lasts for a lot longer than carpets, laminate flooring and vinyl, so in the long term, real wooden flooring can be an excellent investment. Carpets are a traditional form of floor covering in many homes, but ...
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