YOURS AREN’T THE ONLY FEET ON THE FLOOR – MAKE YOUR FURNITURE WEAR SOCKS

Sure there are a whole lot of feet that touch your wood floor, loved ones, friends, neighbors, neighbors, dogs, cats -- that they all have toes. But the toes you aren't thinking about can do the most damage. Your furniture has feet also. Couches, tables, seats -- every one of them usually has four feet. The hardwood floor experts at Floor Sanding Lambeth Have two words to you -- felt pads.

Maintain Your Socks on

Felt pads are just like socks to your furniture. They're the best protection against furniture feet scratching your timber floors. And here's the fantastic news...they are cheap! Yep, dirt cheap. Just trot down to the local Target, Walmart, Lowe's or Home Depot and you'll get a wide variety of furniture felt pads at a broad array of sizes for only a couple of bucks. In case you have wood floors and furniture, then you probably already have sensed pads. They do a fantastic job of protecting your floors...so long as they stay attached.

Felt Pad Adhesion 101

If you discover random felt pads on your floor, follow these tips to secure them in place.

Get a jar of two-part epoxy paste. (It's two components that combine together to make an additional powerful bond.)

Clean out the bottoms of your seat feet with rubbing alcohol and give them a few seconds to dry.

Mix the two parts of glue onto a paper plate and apply them to the base of the chairs using a toothpick.

Place the felt pad on the bottom of the feet and let dry. (you might need to prop your seats upside down until the adhesive is dry so that the pads do not slide off)

Allow the paste dry in accordance with the directions on the package and you are all set.

Hardwood floors are beautiful and we'd like to help you keep them that way. Should you want any assistance with hardwood floor cleaning, refinishing or installation, give us a call in 020 3151 1850

What Is Vintage Hardwood Flooring?

 

Vintage flooring, like classic clothing is a highly sought after flooring alternative today. Antique flooring is essentially old new or flooring flooring that has been made to seem as if it's extremely old. Broadly , vintage flooring has a worn look and a thickness to it that new floors might at times be thought to lack.

Vintage flooring has become highly desired thanks to the knock on effect of this requirement for reclaimed wood flooring. Because reclaimed flooring is in limited distribution, it's common for individuals fail to track down what they're looking for at a price they are ready to pay. At this point these individuals are highly likely to think about flooring which has been automatically obsolete, distressed, coloured and stained to give it an older, or vintage look.

The techniques utilized to produce new flooring take on a classic appearance are diverse and increasing all of the time. Normally, debilitating a wood flooring is the method used to create the classic appearance. Distressing entails damaging the flooring to make it seem like it has endured many years of wear and tear. By hand, chains, scrapers, hammers and other harmful items are utilized to produce the distressed, or classic effect that's so desirable now. A distressed hardwood flooring implies that the flooring has an extensive history and a small story to tell. A look that works nicely in both modern and traditional interior configurations, it's simple to see why distressed, or antique hardwood flooring is so desired.

Another option to hand painful is for floors to be tumbled. A tumbled floor is wood flooring which has a very similar looking end to hand distressed or classic flooring. Tumbling involves rotating the floor boards in a huge drum where they roll about and bounce off each other causing damage to both the faces and the edges of the planks. The end result of tumbling is arguably more arbitrary than hand distressing and it has the added benefit of debilitating the borders of the planks, which serves to change the overall look when the floor is laid, giving it a really commendable, classic look.

As a result of the effectiveness of those techniques, manually"vintage-d" floors cost a fraction of the purchase price of a reclaimed flooring, but by it's very nature will not have the exact same heritage or ecological value as the actual thing.