Wood Renovation !

Wood is one of the best organic materials for home design and interior. It combine beautiful look and great skills. In your home environment natural eco materials are important, because this is a place where you rise your children so to be clean and healthy is valuable ! Wood is the most popular material in the world of flooring- they have good look and also they handle the foot traffic. Wood is succumbing to renovating procedures!

When you see your floors scratched and shabby contact us and you are going to get professional sanding service from one of the leading firms ! 

Balham Floor Sanding Experts

Wooden floor Tips!

Wood floor sanding is the exclusive way that this is sometimes done. A lousy floor sanding job could mess up your wooden flooring. This will avoid the ill-effects which can be sustained by the wood. This will definitely seal the concrete and safeguard the hardwood floor.

Sanding of the floor handles all this. Once the floors are cleaned, they will need to be entirely dried before the wooden floor could be fixed on it. When the floor is dry, you are able to begin polishing it.

You also have to make sure that you keep moisture away from these types of floors. Some wooden floors also require sanding just before application of stains in the event the surface is now rough. This will provide your hardwood floors an excellent shine. This really is needed only in the event the hardwood floors have very many scratches.

Whether they're within the living space, on the staircase, within the kitchen, or bedroom, these floors really can boost the ambiance and appearance of any space. It has to be lifted correctly rather than simply dragging across the ground otherwise it may seriously scratch and damage the wooden floor. You intend to be sure that the room is clear that you move about easily. Before you begin buffing the complete room's floor, perform a test in a little place.

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MAPLE!

MAPLE: There are 115 species of maple. Only 5 commercially important species grow in the U.S. Two of the five are hard rock maple and sugar maple. Maple is so hard and resistant to shocks that it is often used for bowling alley floors. Its diffuse evenly sized pores give the wood a fine texture and even grain. Maple that has a curly grain is often used for violin backs (the pattern formed is known as fiddleback figure). Burls, leaf figure, and birds-eye figures found in maple are used extensively for veneers. The Birds eye figure in maple is said to be the result of stunted growth and is quite rare.
Maple is used extensively for American colonial furniture, especially in medium and lower priced categories. It can also be stained to simulate cherry wood, which it resembles.

Do you know?

Woodworking is a most satisfying pastime, so varied and multifaceted you will never complete the twin processes you have undertaken: acquiring tools and learning how to use them. You have begun a lifetime pursuit. - Michael Dunbar

And do you know?
How can wood last forever in a building? The oldest timber buildings in the world are the temple complex of Horyu-ji in Japan and particularly the pagoda building. The wood used in the centre pillar of the pagoda is estimated through dendrochronological analysis to have been felled in 594 over 1400 years ago! The wood
 has lasted so long in part because it is such a valued, cared for and unique historical building but also because the skills of those craftsmen that built in Japan selected a durable wood species and prevented its exposure to moisture thus ensuring a long service life!  

Incredible wood floors!

Ultimately, literature is nothing but carpentry.... Both are very hard work. Writing something is almost as hard as making a table. With both you are working with reality, a material just as hard as wood. Both are full of tricks and techniques. Basically very little magic and a lot of hard work... -Gabriel Garcia Marquez

OAK WOOD

 Oak is the most widely used hardwood. There are more than 60 species of oak grown in the U.S., which can
be separated into two basic varieties; white and red. The red variety is also known as black oak (a reference
 to its bark).

Properties: Oak is a heavy, strong, light colored hardwood. It is ring porous, due to the fact that more and
 larger conductive vessels are laid down early in the summer, rather than later. Prominent rings and large pores
 give oak a course texture and prominent grain. Oak also has conspicuous medullary rays which can be seen as
"flakes" in quarter sawed oak lumber.

Uses: Oak is the most popular wood used to craft American and English country designs. It is also used for
Gothic and William & Mary reproductions, as well as many transitional and contemporary pieces.

10 Things To Never Do To A Wood Floor

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10 Things To Never Do To A Wood Floor

1. Do not use abrasives or harsh chemicals to clean your floor
2. Do not use hard casters on any furniture directly on your hardwood floor
3. Do not use steam mops on your hardwood floor
4. Do not pour cleaning product directly on floor
5. Do not wait too long between refinish projects
6. Do not wear high heel shoes on wood floors
7. Do not leave the legs of your furniture unprotected
8. Do not drag furniture or heavy appliances over your hardwood floors
9. Do not let your dog’s nails remain untrimmed
10. Do not allow any stains remain untreated !

TOP 3 HARD WOODS

TOP 3 HARD WOODS

1. Quebracho - From the Spanish “quebrar hacha,” which literally means
“axe breaker.” Aptly named, wood in the Schinopsis genus is among the
heaviest and hardest in the world.

2. Lignum Vitae -Widely accepted as the hardest wood in the world–this
wood has been listed as an endangered species and is listed in CITES.
 Consider Verawood as a very close substitute.

3. Gidgee - This Australian endemic is both very heavy and very strong.
 Some pieces are dark enough to be used as an ebony substitute: one that’s
even harder than the original article.