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Transform your wooden floors in Cheshunt, EN8
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Your natural wooden floors need a makeover. If they’re shabby, tired, marked, scratched and damaged. So call on the specialists in floor repair and restoration. Floor Sanding Cheshunt are your choice for wooden floor repairs. With such a valuable asset - in the home, office, bar, school, museum, restaurant or shop - sanding and sealing is a shrewd investment. Whether hardwood or engineered boards or herringbone or parquet blocks, we’ll do all that your floors require to bring them back to life. - repairs and replacement of damaged timber - sanding away old sealant to smooth bare wood - staining to match your decor. Try a darker or lighter shade, such as the fresh modern look of pale washed grey or Scandinavian white. - resealing with fresh natural oil, hard wax or lacquer.
So call us today for your free assessment. Use our expertise developed over twenty years of sanding hundreds of floors.You’ll get the best advice - for a floor completed to the highest level of workmanship.
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Step back into old Cheshunt
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Let’s start in the 13th century, with that incongruous yet welcome survivor, Waltham Cross. Much-restored, it’s one of the supreme examples of royal husbandly affection: one of the Eleanor Crosses Edward 1 had built at each of the stopping off points of his wife’s body on its journey from Northampton back to London. St Mary’s is a fine perpendicular church of the 1400s with some tomb chests and wall monuments. Nestling close by in the remnants of the village lies the gabled front of the Dewhurst Charity School of 1642, while the equivalent almshouse to the east is a row of single storey brick cottages, Although only one wing of Cheshunt Great House now survives, it does contain the impressive forty foot long great hall with its original 15th century timber roof. The 18th century staircase is of pleasing design with its slim balusters of three alternating shapes. |
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Getting your grits right for great floor sanding
Sanding a floor to a professional finish is a question of choosing the right grades of sandpaper, and the right abrasive, then moving through the process of coarse, medium and fine sanding. This process is designed to strip your flooring back to the raw wood and create a smooth and professional finish ready for staining or sealing. It's essential, therefore, that you choose the correct sandpaper grits so you end up with that great finish you're looking. Here's how to do it.
Getting your grits right
Use the right sandpaper grits and the process of floor sanding is so much easier, with less wood waste and a smoother end result. So how do you choose the right grits? It's an easy formula: the lower the number of the grit, the coarser the sandpaper is and the bigger the scratches it will leave on the floor. Conversely, the higher the number of the grit, the finer the sandpaper and the less wood it strips away leaving a smoother surface.
How do I use each grit?
The most commonly used grits in wood flooring renovation are 24 grit, 40 grit, 60 grit and 80/100 grit.
• 24 grit: if your floors are very badly damaged, with an uneven surface and bad scratching, you need the coarsest available grit to begin with and that's 24 grit. For superior and fast results, try using a Zirconia Alumina abrasive.
• 40-60 grit: if your floors are in reasonable condition, or they've been sanded before, then 40-60 grit sandpaper will be the right choice for the coarse and medium sanding stages.
• 80-100 grit: ideal for finishing, as these grits will leave the fewest scratches. For a really professional finish, screen buff with 120, 150 or 180 grits depending on the hardness of your floor timber.
How to get the best possible finish
Before you start any floor sanding job, assess the quality of the floor as pine will need very different treatment to oak, and parquet and engineered wood take different handling to a solid wood floor. Always make sure that each grit can remove the marks made by the grit you've used before, and never skip grits - the transition between coarse, medium and fine sanding must be as smooth as possible or your floor simply won't be.
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