Case Study of the Church of St Mary’s and All Saints in Chesterfield (The Crooked Spire) The Church of St Mary’s and All Saints in Chesterfield is more commonly know as The Crooked Spire. This was the beautiful surrounding for our recent commercial wood floor restoration. The building of the church began in 1234AD, although …

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Just how good are Magic Oils and 2k lacquers at protecting from stains? Wood Floor Refinishing – Which is better? A question we understandably get asked is how good are the finishes at protecting from stains? Here’s some information on a few types products that can be used to finish your floors. There are various …

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Pine floorboard lacquering/varnishing   Congratulations! You’ve successfully followed the instructions on our “how to sand floorboards” blog and you’re ready to apply a finish on the floor to protect the floorboards.  Read This Blog Here   To stain or not to stain?  Now you have sanded your floorboards, they are mostly likely looking fairly pale and …

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Terrazzo Floor Grinding for a Commercial Property – Case Study In February 2019 we began work on a terrazzo floor in the soon to be new Heron Foods store in Oldbury. There was around 328 square meter of terrazzo flooring consisting of the main shopping isle area and back corridors. All were covered in a …

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Parquet Flooring Restoration Parquet flooring can come in many different pattern styles. The most common we tend to see are wood strip, basket weave, mosaic and our own personal favourite Herringbone parquet. We are fortunate to receive a lot of enquires to restore parquet wood flooring. The email normally starts with “we just purchased a …

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Case Study of a Victorian Tiled Floor Restoration Project in Birmingham In February 2020 before the pandemic took hold, Hemmings were referred by another floor restoration company in Birmingham to complete some repair work on a beautiful Victorian Minton tiled hallway. This hall had a concrete channel through the middle of the floor and up …

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How to Sand Floorboards  So you’ve taken up your carpet and underlay and realised you’ve got some lovely pine floorboards. Although the floorboards were designed to be the sub floor and supposed to have another type of flooring over the top such as carpet, wood floor or tiles for instance, it’s still possible and very …

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Sealing natural stone tiled floors   Sealing a natural stone floor whether it’s sandstone, limestone, marble, travertine or slate to name a few, is important for helping protect the stone from stains, dirt and water soaking into the stone which could cause damage, as well as making the floors far easier to keep clean.   …

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Wood Floor Restoration The Importance in Selecting the Correct Products for Your Wood Floor Being believers in only using products that we ourselves would use on our own floor, we thought we would share with you our very own project. Our living room was once covered in a carpet that was constantly in need of …

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