Get rid of the orange floor, use Bona!

I love to get rid of the orange solvent based coatings on old floors. It's amazing what a difference it makes just to sand and expose the raw timber. People often get supprised how light the floors are regardless what type it is. I primarely use a Swedish coating called Bona Traffic HD. It retains the natural beauty of the floors without changing colour. It's not cheap, but well worth the monnies considering you can move in on the floors after just 24 hrs ( after the last coat). Also there is very little smell as it has low solvent content (VOC) - less than 5 %. Being a top of the line product with 67% higher wear resistance than the normal Bona Traffic. I have recoated a 10 year old Tassie oak flooring wich had the normal Bona Traffic with Traffic HD and the customers where very happy. So I use the best quallity as often as possible.Here are some before and after shots of a Baltic Pine floor in Brighton.

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Aluminium trims for floating floors.

I just wanted to share some of the aluminium trims for timber floating floors that are available at Embelton in Huntingdale, Melbourne.

There are some different ones.

U -channel, Z-channel and L- shaped ones.

Scandinavian look stairs.

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To get a Swedish looking interior, use  white (or very light colours) walls and natural mat finished timber floors. Even white stair with natural timber steps looks so clean and fresh. This stair had carpet and a dark red stain on it. My customers thanked me for suggesting the 'Swedish look'.

Another couple wanted me to sand their Tassie oak  floorboards and paint them with white concrete paint. They love the clean Swedish looking floors. So I first primed the floors with Solver pink primer

And then used  2 coats of Viponds white concrete paint.

This is the result.

Parmate vintage Oak pre-finished floating floor

I where asked to lay a pre-finished floating floor for my sister-in-law and her man. I suggested that they go to Fauls auction rooms in Oakleigh. We all went and had a look at their huge range of flooring. There is a difference between the cheaper range laminate flooring and the more expensive venered flooring. In general the laminate flooring only have a 1 mm toplayer and the venered flooring have 3-4 mm toplayer wich can be sanded when it gets worn. After we had been at Fauls we went to Ezi Floor Products  in Oakleigh where they found a oak board they liked. This one is called Parmate  vintage oak and is finnished with Bona's  mat finish. The benefit with these boards is they can be over coated with Bona Traffic range of coatings. Wich will give them a longer life. Here are some pictures.

It's a rustic warm look. Wich feels nice under foot.