A beautiful example of a 70 plus year old Tasmanian Oak floor. 

Some repairs were needed, along with a fair bit of deep sanding, which rewarded us with this beautiful floor. Ready for the home to go on the market.

Click on the pic to see the transformation

The floor here was previously coated with a so called quality water-based finish, which clearly did not live up to the lofty expectations given to the homeowners.

The previous sanding was fine, in fact it was good, but the finish just couldn't hold up to family living.

Click on the pic and you'll see what I mean

Here we had a real challenge. Massive repair and re-structuring work, followed up with hand-staining to a dark Black Japan stain. Finally, a Lo-Sheen finish pulled it all together to become an absolutely sensational restoration.

We really loved this job. Click on the pic and see for yourself.

An older style Hastings home with great looking Tasmanian Oak floors, that had unfortunately been poorly sanded previously.

With some love n' care, and heavy sand paper we were able to bring it back to be a spectacular, easy-care floor for our client in her first home.

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This is truly one of the finest Tasmanian Oak floors I've worked on. The boards in a lot of the rooms were full length, like, up to nearly four metres in length, leaving the rooms with no joined boards. It's a spectacular look.

These boards were finished in a Satin polyurethane.

Click on the pic to see just how nice it all is.

This poor floor had been abused. Obviously, it must have squeaked horribly and someone in their anger has belted the tripe out of it while burying in some long-arsed nails to hopefully stop the noise.

Did it work? I'll never know. But what I can say is I was able to get rid of all the evidence of the heavy-handed hammering and turned it into a beautiful Satin finished floor.

Click on the pic to see how it all came together.

This particular Tasmanian Oak floor was a mix of four different renovations over the course of the homes' life. Although, Tasmanian Oak was used in each stage of the reno work, there are still subtle differences due to the age and milling of the boards.

Despite the differences it all came together brilliantly to help create a beautiful home for the young couple who were excited to be moving in.

Click on the pic to check it all out. 

This was a really hard job. 

Patching up a termite damaged floor that has been glued to a concrete slab is much, much harder to do then replacing boards over joists and bearers. Because the boards were glued down they only come up in small pieces, and then once the boards are removed the slab needs to be tidied up ready for the replacements to be glued in. It's horrible and a lot of swearing is normally involved.

But, through iron will and determination, we managed to turn it all into an amazing home, once again.

Click on the pic to see our struggles. 

When I came here I was greeted with a floor that had never been sanded in it's life... but, throughout it's life a lot of dogs had wee'd on the old carpet which left several stains deep into the boards.

Despite having stains here n' there throughout the home it still turned out to be an amazing transformation, which delighted everyone.

Click on the pic to see how it cleaned up.

We loved working on this floor. At 60 years old and never having been sanded it was ready to come to life.

Our first task was to remove a ton of glue from the old Lino and vinyl tiles. Once the glue was removed we wee left with a brand new floor that had never even seen the light of day, due to the glue preventing the UV rays from penetrating and darkening the boards over time.

It was a brilliant transformation. 

Click on the pic to see what I mean.