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Hardwood floor gives warmth and luxury to the home. The durability of wooden floors is unmatched. High-traffic areas in homes damage the floor with time. You will notice a remarkable difference in the color, texture, and appearance of the hardwood floor with high traffic versus the rest of the house.

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Budget Floor Sanding Brisbane recently attended this home in Fairfield that required timber floorboard repairs, followed by floor sanding and polishing. The spotted gum hardwood timber floors had suffered water damage to the floor due to waterproofing issues in the bathroom. Over time the water ingress had damaged the timber flooring. To repair the water damaged timber floor, all the affected tongue and groove flooring was removed, and then it was replaced with the same species of wood, in this case, Spotted Gum.

Floor sanding this Brisbane Morningside home required the previously sanded and polished Jarrah hardwood timber flooring to be stripped back. The home had recently been purchased by an interstate family who disliked the red colored Jarrah timber floor, preferring instead a dark Walnut color which may be described as a Hampton’s look.

Sanding and polishing old Queenslander timber floors is a common request for Budget Floor Sanding. Brisbane has many inner-city suburbs on the southside, northside east, and west, where numerous post-war and Traditional timber homes with wooden floors exist. Renovating and restoring these timber homes often involves sanding and polishing the existing timber floors. More often than not, the traditional Queenslanders and workers cottages have hoop pine floors and the post-war homes are more likely to have a mix of hardwood timber flooring or brush box floors. Recently Budget Floor Sanding Brisbane re-sanded the floors in a 100-year-old Queenslander in Balmoral. Originally this home had hoop pine floors damaged by timber borer. The wooden floors were completely replaced with a native hardwood floor as part of a major home renovation. After polishing the wooden floors some fifteen years ago, Budget Floor Sanding Brisbane returned to re-polish the timber floors with a water-based timber floor coating, restoring them to their original condition. Customers always comment on what a transformation floor sanding and polishing has on their home. If you are contemplating renovating an old home and need your timber floors sanded and polished, contact Brisbane’s best floor sanding company with over 20 years of experience for a free no-obligation floor sanding quote.

Are your timber stairs safe? In 2014 the Australian Building Codes Board and State government Regulators introduced new regulations for slip resistance on timber stairs within the Building Code of Australia. This now means that when sanding and coating timber stairs, the wooden treads must be finished with an Anti Slip additive into the coating, which will give the timber stair tread an R10 slip rating. This results in the timber stair tread ending up with a near matt sheen level and for this reason, we now recommend that wooden stairs are finished in a satin finish so as to minimize the sheen difference between the treads and the rest of the stairs.

Staining of timber floors has become a frequent line of inquiry here at Budget Floor Sanding Brisbane. Principally the floor stain colors that clients are interested in, are black stains and dark chocolate brown stains. In old Queenslanders, not everyone desires the honey color of the old Hoop Pine floorboards and these are the most common timber floors that we are asked to stain.

New timber floor coatings are constantly becoming available and one of the latest is a product produced by Loba called Invisible Protect. Budget Floor Sanding recently used this wooden floor finish on a Coorparoo homes hoop pine floor, to create an untreated Scandinavian Nordic timber floor look. The owners of this Queenslander home wanted to finish the floor in such a way that maintained the original look of the raw timber floor. This timber floor finish is designed to leave the coated floor in a natural state with the appearance as close as possible to the original raw timber floorboards. The wooden floor coating retains the natural appearance and feel of untreated wood. The almost invisible layer is extremely scratch-resistant and has outstanding chemical and wear resistance.

Budget floor Sanding does regular floor sanding of stairs for one of Brisbane’s leading home project builders. This particular set of wooden stairs were in a new house under construction at Sherwood. To match other decors in the home the owners were keen to stain the timber stairs in a black stain. To ensure the end result matches the owner’s vision, stain samples are firstly supplied for the owner’s approval. The stairs were then sanded and then a stain coat of Feast Watson Prooftint is applied to the stairs. After the stain has dried, the stairs were then finished with 3 coats of a polyurethane satin finish.

In this new house under construction, the floor had been laid with White Mahogany 130 mm tongue and groove timber flooring. This Herston home is being constructed by a builder for whom Budget Floor Sanding regularly does work. After a discussion with the homeowner, it became evident of the desire to finish the floor with a natural-looking penetrating oil style floor finish. The Whittle Wax range of finishes is ideal in this instance, particularly when using the low sheen options which produce a beautiful natural-looking soft luster to the finished wooden floor.