Floorboard Restoration | Old Pine Floorboards

Floorboard restoration is the process of repairing, sanding, gap filling, staining and sealing of soft wooden Floorboards such as Pine wood or hardwood floorboards such as Oak Floorboards, Walnut, Miranti, Merbau, Teak and other hardwood types. To view the step by step the sanding and restoration process visit our “Floor Sanding Process” and “Floor Sanding London” pages.

Floorboard Restoration: Before and After

Floorboard Restoration

1: Floorboard Restoration for all type of Wood Floors

Softwood or hardwood floorboards and they fall into two basic types:

Square edged and tongue and grooved
Solid or engineered.

In doubt on which type of flooring you have? Here is a handy tip we can pass on from our many years of experience. Simply choose two boards with a slight gap between them and slide the blade of a knife in as far as it will go. If you encounter any grime, dirt or draught proofing just scratch it out. If your blade only goes to a depth of around 10-12 millimetres the boards are either tongued or rebated and if your blade goes all the way through they are square edge boards.

Floorboard Restoration

Do you hate that nasty creaky sound you hear when you walk over certain parts of wood in your house? We do too. That disturbing sound is caused by two pieces of timber rubbing together and over time the nails that hold the boards to the joists wriggle loose and they’re no longer firm and steady. It’s either that or your central heating has caused the boards to shrink slightly. For full details on floorboard restoration, please browse the link “Wood Floor Repair“. Either way this problem can be rectified and you cannot make a better choice for this job than West End Flooring Masters.

2: Soft wood and hardwood, Solid or Engineered Floorboard Restoration

Old Victorian Pine boards are most commonly found under your carpet and you may also come across Old Oak floorboards, old Walnut Floorboards, or perhaps Merbeau or Teak.

The Sanding process for softwood such as pine floorboards requires a coarse sanding abrasive belt starting from grit 24 if the boards have never been sanded and are in a very rough state:

: Floorboard Repairs

: Edger Sanding Pine Wood

: Sanding floorboards

: Buffing between Coats

: Clear Varnish on Pine

Softwood is ideal for staining and can be finished to any desired finishing.

: White Wash Pitch Pine

: Polished Pine Boards

: Polished Oak Floors

3: Hardwood Floorboard Restoration

Although floorboard restoration for Hardwood Floorboards require strong sanding, it is advisable not to use a very coarse grit to strip it because it would leave deep lines on the floorboard. These could be difficult to remove and may resurface after a month or two from sanding. We recommend a less coarse sanding belt, starting from grit 40 and progressing to grit 120 so that the pores on the floorboard are sealed by the process of sanding alone.

Hardwood floorboards are not suitable for staining, and rather better to seal with either clear varnish or oil.

there are however specialised products for staining hardwood floorboards such as Bona Create range, Bona Craft, Mylands stains, Osmo stained oils and Blanchon stained oils.

: Stripping off with Sander