Caring For Your Floor

A few tips and suggestions to help keep you’re floor looking like new.

Dirt and Grit
In our experience it is always a good idea to place a rug or mat at the entrance of your property, to extract all dirt and grit and prevent any damages that could be caused.

Water and Spills
Excessive water or leaks can cause a multitude of problems for example: bowing, cupping, twisting and warping. Always dry the floor after any spills immediately.

Hand Cleaners
Always avoid using soap products when you are cleaning your wood floors as this can cause a build up to the surface and may affect future after care.

Damage
Prevention is always better than cure, do not drag furnisher across the floor always lift, as this may lead to scratching or denting. When placing your furnisher use felt pads under legs.

Sunlight
Constant direct sunlight can cause discolouring or fading to your floor, using viols, nets or closing your curtains when your not there should help protect your floor against UV rays.

Cigarette Burns
For minor burns, rub with steel wool and clean with good quality brand wood flooring cleaner. Please note read reverse of cleaning product first.

Heel and Cluster Marks
Rub vigorously with fine steel wool as appropriate, and then clean with good quality brand cleaner.

Chewing gum and wax deposits
Apply ice until the deposit is brittle and crumbles off.

Squeaky floors
When the air in the room becomes extremely dry, your floor loses moisture and contracts. Conversely, when humidity rises, your floor absorbs moisture and expands. Making sure that your air conditioning system does not in-fluctuate dramatically will keep the right comfortable humidity level for your floor. Prolonged cycles of shrinking and swelling of your hardwood floor may result in squeaking floorboards. To correct this problem, apply liquid wax, powdered soap, talcum powder or powdered graphite between the offending floorboards that are rubbing together. If that doesn’t stop the squeaking, drive two-inch finishing nails through pilot holes on both edges of the boards and cover the holes with matching specie colour wood filler.

Storage
It is always advised to store the flooring in the area that it is going to be installed, At the approximate temperature that the area will stay at after the floor has been fitted, which allows for perfect acclimatization conditions. Do not store in damp areas, overheated areas or next to windows in direct sunlight.

Doing It Your Self ?
It is always recommended to have your floor installed with a professional wood floor fitter, however, if taking the task in hand your self, we recommend the following tools: a Hammer – nail punch – tape measure – circular saw – table saw or jigsaw – porter nailer with mallet – power nails – lifting bar – drill (for pipes) chalk line and pencils… (Always check details for tool requirements first)

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