Restored parquet flooring

Too often when buying a period house you find the old wooden floors have been removed or seriously damaged and an simply covered up with...

My restored parquet flooring in my hallway.

Parquet flooring is a unique style that originally became popular in American homes in the 1960s. It is not the standard flooring pattern, rather, it

Over the years we received many calls from our clients asking if Parquet floors can be sanded and restored. This article will help answer that. There are many types of parquet floors and for now, I wish to only talk about the style referred to as 5 finger parquet. It is called 5 fingers as […]

Quicksand Flooring on Instagram: "This Tasmanian Oak double herringbone pattern parquet hardwood floor had turned orange over time and was really worn through in certain spots. Enter the Quicksand team to restore it!! First we sanded it back to bare with the drum sander, then along came the Edger. Filling any small gaps with a mix of Berger-Seidle Pafuki and fine saw dust collected from the floor sanding process. Three coats of Berger-Seidle in a NordicWhite finish and we are DONE…

Parquet floor restoration in Salisbury, Parquet Blocks came up really well.

And before you say "keep it"..Too late! [img/p> It had been under carpet for all it's life it seems - was manky around the edges/cork coming up, and ...

The cost of refinishing parquet flooring is similar to regular hardwood flooring, but the process is a little more tedious to prevent damage to the flooring.

Many homeowners enjoy the look and relative low maintenance of a beautiful parquet floor. One thing they do not look forward to is the process of refinishing these floors. With adequate tools, chemicals and patience the task can be accomplished within a day or two. The lustrous result is well worth the effort.

Transformations Before/After on Instagram: "@quicksandflooring This is a wooden floor restoration reel, but you can also call it therapy ☺️ @renovationsx"

Solid wood floors are a luxurious, premium flooring option. Built to last, solid wood floors are exactly what they say, planks of 100% pure wood. You can san...

Perspective changes everything. Take a particular object, put it in a specific time and place, and you see how it differs compared with an almost identical one. And since such an experiment would probably be slightly too elaborate for real life, Bored Panda has compiled this entertaining collection of the most surprising comparisons.

Whitewashed parquet floors; sounds like it could work, right? Wrong! In a perfect world every DIY project I did would turn out just the way I wanted it to. In case, you may not have heard, this isn’t a perfect world. Sometimes what sounds like a good idea turns out to be just plain awful. I would say I most definitely learned that lesson with this project. I realized that I really do love the look of whitewashing, just not on parquet flooring. When this horrible idea occurred to me, our…

Restored parquet floor - hours of work, but so worth it!

We recently moved into an old victorian townhouse in east London and we're having all floors sanded (all original floorboards). There is a little gap between between the boards in some rooms - and question is whether to fill them or leave them? We're going to white wash them all. This is what we wan...