Do you want your floor to look natural, like it is raw timber that has the appearance of having never been coated. If you don’t want your floor to look as if it has a plastic layer on top of the timber and for it not to change colour and yellow with age, Loba Invisible… Read More
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American Oak Flooring Finished with Loba Invisible Protect
Our latest floor sanding Brisbane project was this new house in Balmoral. The home owners chose American Oak tongue and groove flooring in a wider 180 mm width. Budget Floor Sanding Brisbane was contracted by the builder to install the timber flooring. With a wide profile floor such as this the timber was fully glued… Read More
Spotted Gum Flooring Finished with Loba Water Base Finish
New Spotted Gum Timber flooring was installed on the upstairs and downstairs levels at a recently built new house at Cannon Hill. A decorative Spotted Gum timber parquetry floor had been laid in the entry as a standout feature of this new home. It was the owners desire to have the wooden floor looking as… Read More
Floor Sanding and Polishing of Stairs
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 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