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Tasmanian Oak at its finest.
Tasmanian Oak at its finest.
This 1960s home in Seaford was undergoing a very tasteful renovation and like many homes of this vintage there needed to be walls taken out to maximize space, to bring it into a more contemporary, open plan living style.
To make this sort of renovation work the idea is to seamlessly weave second-hand Tassy Oak into the existing boards and with any sort of luck it all disappears. This floor here is a pretty good example of what I'm talking about
Pretty much the most common repair work we do is where a wall has been removed to expand a living space
Another reason we find ourselves patching up floorboards in your home, is from where an old fireplace has been removed as modern heating has been installed
The work that goes into fixing up where a fireplace was is quite significant, as we often have to deal with the old concrete from the hearth before any repair work can commence
This older home in Seaford had both. Walls had been removed and the hearth needed to be re-worked to accommodate Tasmanian Oak boards to match the existing floor
A big part of doing this sort of floor repair work is figuring out in your mind's eye how it all might look once it's sanded and polished
The main idea is to blend the repair work in to make it as invisible as possible - basically, making it look like it was always like this since the home was built
Adding to the challenge of it all is often we have to go under new kitchen cabinets...without marking them of course
Even just cutting out the hole to be filled in is a skill in it's own right
Given that we will be sanding and polishing the floor later gives us the opportunity to do some mathematics on the floor as we effect the repairs
We do this 'cause it makes us look smart.
One more board to go, in this section
With this particular job the boards didn't quite match up from either side of the wall requiring me to custom make each and everyone of them...this tests the soul of any man
With all of the carpentry work completed it's now time to sand the floor and fine tune the repairs
This is where the walls were and has blended in pretty well
This section is where the concrete was from the hearth, and it's disappeared brilliantly, too
The following pictures shows just how nicely it all came together.
The secondhand Tasmanian Oak fitted in well with the existing floors, and the only real way of telling them apart is that the replacement boards have that extra few lots of nail holes from where they were pulled up, from another house
Not a bad looking repair job, 'eh!
Not a bad looking sanding job either
Protection here comes from a 2Pac polyurethane for it's strength and durability, with the final finish being a Lo-Sheen polyurethane to give it that super flat look
There we have it. A really satisfying finish to a wonderful job
If you're sitting there looking at your floor wondering what to do with that spot where the wall came out
well, this is pretty much what you can expect when it's all said 'n' done
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