Turning Tired Floorboards and Reclaimed Wood into Beautiful Bespoke Floors
Floor Sanding and Finishing
We sand and finish existing wooden flooring using the latest in powerful, dust-free, and minimally intrusive equipment. Your floor is finished to a very high standard with the latest environmentally kind, hard-wearing laquers and oils.
We use high quality, commercial equipment including drum and rotary sanders to achieve a professional result quickly and efficiently. All our machinery is attached to dust extraction systems, achieving a virtually dust-free environment for all jobs.
Elasticated fillers can be used to stop drafts, prevent dirt and crumbs building up, and can be coloured to match your floor.
Along with this is our ability to adapt finishes to your requirements. We use many different finishing products and techniques, some traditional, some modern, to achieve the perfect finish.
We use very high quality stains and often tweak the colour to provide an exact match to the customer’s requirements.
Bespoke Hardwood Floors
We can source, supply and fit the whole range of wooden flooring, from the more affordable pre-finished oaks, to unfinished, very long, wide planks imported from Europe and America, and other continents. For example, Wenge, Red Elm, Black Walnut, Coloured Ash, Grey Elm, European Elm, Sapelle, and many more. Carefully chosen boards give each floor its own character.
Most flooring bought by the public these days is pre-finished and manufactured into an easy-to-lay product. These boards are normally narrow, measuring from 90cm to 150cm wide, which is fine for a smaller room. However, when working in larger areas, fitting wider and longer boards can result in a better look, and we are expert in fitting bespoke hard wood boards.
We have undertaken several projects where the client or architect has specified a desire for a unique floor made up of very wide and long boards, often with matching skirting board and stairs. This timber is not pre-finished and has to be hand-crafted, sanded to a very high standard, and hand-finished with oils or laquers. We particularly enjoy taking on this type of work, and have achieved some stunning results.
AM Floor Sanding can guide you in the best choice of materials and finish to get the beautiful results you want to see.
Bespoke Wood Floor Colouring
Commercial and high street stains can sometimes look overpowering, or are unpleasing to the eye, particularly on larger areas. We use very high quality stains, but even with these, we often “tweak” the colour to customize it to the exact colour match that the customer requires. This can be dictated by the furniture or doors, or to achieve a particular “look” that the customer has seen in a magazine.
By using an innovative, new product, we have perfected the look of a sun-bleached or white-washed floor. The result is a very neutral and natural floor, with no yellowness in the boards. This can be particularly effective look in a bathroom, for instance.
There has been demand recently for a very dark, nearly black look to a floor. This can be done by laying a naturally dark wood, such as Wenge, or deep-staining (ebonizing) another less dark timber.
By developing a technique of double staining, and by fine-tuning the stain, we can achieve this look – and the result can be stunning!
Floorboards can also be painted with modern floor paints for a fashionable and up-to-date look.
Floor Repairs and Renovation
Alex answers the questions he is most often asked about floor sanding and floor renovation.
How dusty is floor sanding?
It really is virtually dust-free. We use commercial-grade dust extraction systems on all our equipment. Take a look at our Floor sanding page for more details.
Can you repair an old wood floor?
Some areas of your existing floorboards may look unsightly compared to the rest of the floor and may need repairing or replacing. With the use of reclaimed pine wood and expert carpentry work, these areas can be brought up to standard, moreover at very little cost.
How do you prepare for floor sanding?
More often than not, a floor can be laid directly without any preparation. However, sometimes existing floorboards need to be flattened with large drum sanders. Concrete floors may need to be leveled with latex screeds, or damp-proofed with liquid damp-proof membranes. Concrete floors are also tested with moisture readers. Factors such as these can be discussed at the initial stage of enquiry.
Can you fill the gaps in my floorboards?
Elasticated fillers can be used to stop drafts, prevent dirt and crumbs building up, and can be coloured to match your floor.
Outdoor Decked Area Design
We can design and build decked areas using only the finest outdoor timbers. These are usually sourced from South America and Asia.
These timbers are very dense, and the oil content is extremely high. This greatly helps to prevent rotting, or deterioration of the wood, even with the Manchester weather!
