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LOOSE PARQUET PROBLEMS SOLVED...

Parquet finger blocks and blocks laid to a herring-bone or basket weave pattern over concrete can often be found loose once uncovered. The fixing of gripper rod around the perimeter can dislodge blocks, or they can simply become 'un-stuck' from their original bitumen adhesive due to damp, abuse or a poor concrete mix during construction. SLS have often experienced these problems and have great expertise and patience to return the floors to their original splendour

It really doesn't matter whether you carry out any decorating before or after having your floors sanded and finished, but there are fores and againsts. Our machines are vitually dust free, and we totally clean up the thin film of dust left, as we do not want any particles in the air whilst lacquering and finishing etc.
If you decorate after the floors are finished, then you risk spillages, decorating dust smears and risk of damage from steps and falling tools etc.
If you are intending to decorate before you have your floors sanded and finished, then we ask you to leave the final two coats on the skirtings until after we have completed the floors. Although all of our machines are 'skirting friendly' soft paint can sometimes pull or drag on the mechanisms.

There's a strange misconception around oak floors whereby owners just accept that they have to be left to appear in the good old oak way, with the honey tone that everyone seems to have these days... Wrong, oak accepts stain in a subtle way by colouring only in the fissures of its very tight grain. So if you are fed up with your oak floor but don't want to change it because of the fortune spent installing it in the first place, then ask the technicians to apply sample patches to your floor once sanded and prepared to get an idea of what can be achieved with a little experimenting...