Floor sanding services for less! Cheap London floorboard sanding and floor restoration service! Sounds impossible for London!

Thanks to our latest equipment and experienced floor sanders, BP Carpets and Flooring Ltd provides cost–effective dust free floor sanding service and wood floor renovation. Lift your carpet you might be lucky to discover a reclaimed parquet floor or old Victorian pine floorboards. Then call our flooring experts who are able to complete your parquet flooring or reclaimed pine floorboards restorationprojects with appropriate quality and professionalism.

Don’t worry about the dust ! Our floor sanding team has the latest available equipment which collects 90% of the wood dust. We are packed with plastic dust sheets so all areas sensitive to dust can be covered before the sanding process.

Most of the finishing products we use are water based that ensure us that our health and our customer health is protected!

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Save money on installing a new hardwood floor, restore your reclaimed pine floorboards using our dust free floor sanding service.
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Gap Filling: Resin or Reclaimed Pine Slivers

 

Gap filling is a procedure which goes on most of floors at some stage of their life, there are two main methods for filling gaps on wooden floors; resin gap filling, and reclaimed pine slivers gap filling.

Resin & wood dust gap filling 

we mix fine dust produced from the sanding process with either solvent based or water based filler. We use water based filler Bona Mix and Fill to avoid the strong smell of the solvent based fillers. When you mix the dust with the resin, stir to form a paste then we start applying it on the floor and filling the gaps. This method is suitable for filling gaps up to 5 mm.

Reclaimed pine slivers gap filling 

This method is for filling large gaps between the floor boards. We applying Bona adhesive on the slivers then knocked them into the gaps, we then sand off the excess material. We stress on using reclaimed pine slivers as these are well acclamatised and will expand and contract with your floor throughout the seasons. This in effect will form a permanent seal (provided floor boards are firm on the joist) for your floor compared to resin gap filling. As would be expected, this method of gap filling is much more expensive than resin gap filling.

 

 

The picture to your left shows the characteristic V-shaped profile of a reclaimed pine sliver. Slivers are sold in lengths of 1m and varying widths. Slivers are recommended for filling floor board gaps larger than 3mm. 

 The right wooden floor color can enhance a home’s character and allow you to express your sense of style! Hardwood floorscan come pre-stained and pre-finished from the factory or they can be sanded and stained after wood installation according to our customer’s preferences. Our flooring experts are ready to offer you a wide range of stain choices for your hardwood floor. Here is some of the most popular stain colors, which we can apply at your oak floor or solid parquet floor:

 

Floor Staining & Coating

Our floor sanding company works with spirit based top quality stains which can be intermixed in order to create the desirable wood floor color. Our skilled flooring experts can help you matching stain colors to an existing hardwood color or to advice you in picking up the right wood stain color.

 

Wood floor staining is not a simple job; many things can go wrong, but don’t worry you are at the right place. We are timber flooring contractor who’s able to provide professional floor staining service based on our 15 years wood flooring experience. Getting the right stain for your floor takes considerable knowledge as woods stain differently according to the species, age, exposure to sunlight etc. There are many parameters to consider to arrive to your desired floor stain. This is why we carry a range of stains and will custom-mix till we get the right colour for you.

The most common problem encountered during staining is discoloration due to poor sanding process and poor penetration. Imperfections are exagerated when a floor is stained. As a professional flooring company, which combines both experienced flooring specialists and latest equipment we are able to provide high standard sanding and staining Service eliminating to almost zero every floor-sanding mistake that the stain can reveals.

The next common staining 'problem'  is that of information or customer's expectation. Unfortunately, wood stains are commonly represented on Oak floors. However, about 90% of the houses in the UK have pine boards. Pine stains very differently from oak with the results often lighter or appear dilluted. Our floor sanding estimator will advise you on just what to expect on the types of stains we offer.

 Our team of professional floor sanders and floor fitters will apply a free stain samples directly to your floor!

 

 Wood Finish - Hardwax Oils & Lacquers

 

The wooden floor sealing takes important part in the floor restoration process. The main purpose of floor finishing service is to allow the finishing product to penetrate into the wood pores and create a well-protected and durable wood surface.

Wood finish:

1. Protects the wood from scratches, dirt and wear.
2. Enhances wood floor natural beauty, color, patterns, grain and depth.
3. Preserves wood from water, oxidation.
4. Changes wood appearance by adding color and hiding defects.

There is two main ways to protect the surface of your wooden floor, the first one is by using solvent or water based lacquers and the second one is by using different types of oils.

The biggest question in front of our customers is:

OIL OR LACQUER?

Our experts are here to help you make the right decision. Our choice of finishing products is based on our 15-year experience of wood flooring. We use premium brands like Saicosare using top brand products like Saicos, Loba, Bona ,Osmo… ect. The finishing products can have three main sheen levels matt, satin (semi gloss) and gloss effect. Depending on the traffic conditions our wood flooring specialists can apply a product which suites on the heavy or resident traffic wear conditions. Due to health risks and environmental considerations our floor experts doesn’t use solvent based lacquers. We are using water-based lacquers which are less toxic and it is easier to work with them.

LACQUERS: Most common wood floor sealer is Lacquer. Our teams are using only water-based products. Lacquers are harder wearing because of the curing process, which produce a hardwearing and durable wood floor surface easy to maintain. Water- based Lacquers are favorite because their quick drying time (the first coat seals the wood floor for just 15 minutes) which allowing us to seal and finish the floor with 3 COATS in the same day. Lacquers doesn’t yellow so much the wood compared to the oil based products. Water based lacquer is clear finish which creates strong, heavy wearing and durable wood floor surface but ones this surface get scratched you have to re-sand the whole floor.

OILS:  Oil finish penetrate the wood pores and protects the wood from moister and the same time allow the wood to breathe. Oils showing much better the grain of the wood and produce a nice matt or satin finish. Oil is easy to be applied on wooden surface. Our floor specialists recommend 2 COATS, because too many coats of oil make the floor susceptible to scratch and scuff marks. Oil finish takes longer to dry compared to the water-based lacquers for that reason it could take up to 24 hours before the floor is ready for heavy foot traffic after the second coat.

A great benefit from using oil is that scratches can be repaired easily, the floor need to be buffed with buffing machine and then re-coated.

We are also able to apply colored oil.