Home Improvement

Here’s the scenario – you’ve just installed a beautiful new wooden floor at home, and thankfully you measured correctly and had more than enough to do the job. But now you’ve got a lot of scraps left – what should you do with them? We understand you’ll be reluctant to throw them away, after all you paid good money for your floor and it would be a shame to see it go to waste. So, here’s a few ideas as to what to do with your left over wooden flooring... Read More

We’ve been asked a few times by our customers, ‘What is a suspended timber floor?’ and how it will this impact on their final flooring choices. We thought we’d take some time to clear this question up and discuss how it’s likely to affect you if you have one. Q: What is a suspended timber floor? Floor structures are generally one of two types – solid or suspended. Suspended timber floors, which are typically found in older houses, are normally made from timber floorboards which are then attached to joists... Read More

It’s every homeowner’s worst nightmare – you’ve just laid a beautiful, and expensive, wood floor and after only a few months it seems like it’s is lifting. What’s causing it to do this? And more importantly, what can you do about it to reduce the amount of damage done to your floor? Find out more in our blog post below. When your wooden floor starts to lift, this process is also known as buckling or bulging. It’s common for this to happen in any area of the floor – at... Read More

Best low maintenance flooring for your busy home If you’ve got a busy household, you need furniture and furnishings that can live up to the hectic lifestyle of you and your family. Flooring that can’t take the hustle and bustle of your everyday life will never make the grade, but thankfully, we have some ideas for the best low maintenance flooring for your busy home. Check out our recommendations below, and don’t forget that if you can’t decide on the perfect flooring option right now that you can always get... Read More

Should you finish decorating before or after your new flooring is laid? If you’re planning a big decorating session for your home, you’ll know how tricky it can be to organise the logistics of it all – arranging for painter and decorators, stripping off old wallpaper, lifting old carpets or flooring, disposing of it, and that’s not even the hassle of finding the perfect paint and wallpaper. One of the logistics elements that we get asked about all the time is, should you paint first or lay the floor first?... Read More