Budget Floor Sanding Brisbane has in recent weeks been busy with timber stair sanding and polishing. At the “Ison Collection” development in Morningside where there are 14 separate homes with a total of 27 sets of timber stairs, requiring floor sanding and polishing. These were Durian timber stairs which the architect had specified to be… Read More
Floor Sanding Information
Floor Sanding Finishes using Whittle Waxes and Treatex
Both Whittle wax and Treatex are Hardwax oils. Hardwaxes are highly effective timber floor coatings that consist of natural plant oils and waxes that have been used for the protection and enhancement of timber for centuries. Whittle wax and Treatex products in addition to enhancing the natural beauty of timber are also non-toxic, eco-friendly and… Read More
Sanding & Polishing of a old Church Hall
Budget Floor Sanding Brisbane was recently engaged to undertake the floor sanding and polishing of the timber floors of a historic old church. Once the restored timber floors have been completed, the old church will be used as a wedding chapel. The photos show the rustic old Queensland Hoop Pine flooring that had never been… Read More
Floor Sanding Brisbane Balmoral
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.… Read More
Anti Slip for Timber Stairs
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,… Read More
Staining of a Hoop Pine Timber Floor at Norman Park
Staining of timber floors has become a frequent line of inquiry here at Budget Floor Sanding Brisbane. Principally the floor stain colours that clients are interested in, are black stains and dark chocolate brown stains. In old queenslanders not everyone desires the honey colour of the old Hoop Pine floor boards and these are the… Read More
Floor Sanding with Invisible Protect Timber Floor Finish
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… Read More
Floor Sanding Timber Stairs and Staining them Black
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 decor in the home the owners were keen to stain the timber stairs in a black stain. To ensure the… Read More
Floor sanding & Polishing at Herston with Whittle Waxes
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 discussion with the home owner it became evident of the desire to finish the floor with… Read More
Floor Sanding and Polishing at Wavell Heights
This near new Wavell Heights house was recently purchased by new owners. When the Blackbutt timber floors had been originally sanded and polished, they had been finished with a modified, low sheen oil floor coating. However the new owners desired a harder wearing polyurethane coating and also wanted a gloss finish for their wooden floor.… Read More