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The owners of this old Tasmanian Blue Gum mosaic parquetry floor wanted their timber floor re-sanded and polished for a couple of reasons. Firstly they did not like the way that the old polyurethane coating had gone yellow with age and secondly re-modeling of the kitchen had exposed areas of flooring not currently laid with parquetry.

This new house under construction in the Brisbane suburb of Sherwood had new secret nailed Blackbutt flooring and Blackbutt stairs laid throughout the entire house. Blackbutt flooring is a blonde colored hardwood and a popular choice as it has a lighter tone of color. However, when the blonde colored hardwood is finished with a polyurethane timber floor finish, the lighter pale tone of the timber is gradually lost to a yellow/orange color as the polyurethane yellows with age. This is a result of UV light affecting the polyurethane timber floor finish.

There was a time when customer expectation was that a polished timber floor must be glossy, and the glossier the better. Now, however, the lower sheen satin timber floor Polyurethane finishes are very popular. There are a few reasons for this.

Last year Budget Floor Sanding Brisbane sanded and polished the old timber floors at the White Chapel Kalbar wedding venue and their Black Hall Reception Centre in rural Historic Kalbar in the Scenic Rim. A year later the owners of White Chapel have added two residences to act as wedding accommodation for the quests or wedding party. Both of the residences are old Queenslanders that had rustic old Hoop Pine flooring that was in need of a timber floor restoration. The owner requested that the old hoop pine timber floors have a dark finish added to them. To achieve this the wooden floors were stripped back by sanding and then finished with a coat of Feast Watson Prooftint stain in the black color. The timber floor was then sealed with three coats in a polyurethane satin finish. With all timber floor staining, the intensity of the stain can be altered, it all depends on how strong you want the color of the wooden floor to be. In this case, the customer desired a very intense color, and the stain was mixed accordingly.

American Oak timber floors have become more popular around Brisbane lately, especially in homes where a Hampton style is desired. Recently Budget Floor Sanding completed the floor sanding and polishing of three sets of timber stairs in three new homes at Clayfield. The timber stairs had been installed with American Oak feature stair treads. The timber stair risers and stringers were to be painted white and the stair treads were sanded and polished, giving the staircase the Hampton look that the owners wanted. The client also requested that the timber stairs be stained a darker colour and this was achieved by applying a black Feast Watson stain to the timber stair treads, after they had been sanded. The timber stair treads were then finished with three coats of Loba water-based timber floor finish. The last coat applied, meets the non-slip R10 requirement that is now required by building regulations in Queensland for new timber stairs.

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 color and yellow with age, Loba Invisible Protect is the natural-looking timber floor finish for you.

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.

Our latest floor sanding Brisbane project was this new house in Balmoral. The homeowners 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 to the substrate and then secret nailed. It was then also necessary to top nail the floor before floor sanding and polishing.

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 owner’s desire to have the wooden floor looking as natural as possible at the completion of the floor sanding and polishing project. To obtain the desired look the best timber floor finish to achieve this was a water-based coating system.

Often in older houses, the timber floor requires repair as part of the floor sanding and polishing process. These floor repairs often involve floor board replacement and are a service that is also carried out by Budget Floor Sanding. This house in the Brisbane Suburb of East Brisbane had previously had a section of the pinewood flooring patched with a sheet of plywood. After removing the plywood and installing replacement timber floorboards in a staggered fashion to blend the new timber flooring with the older original Hoop Pine flooring, the floor was sanded back in preparation for staining.