Emanuel School hall floor in Battersea after sanding and refinishing by Howard Naish

Commercial Wood Floors · London

Commercial Floor Sanding in London

School halls, pub floors, office parquet and community spaces, sanded and refinished around your opening hours by the team that did Emanuel School.

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Why Commercial Clients Choose Us

The Work Is On This Website, Not In a Brochure

Commercial wood floors take a hiding: hundreds of feet a day, furniture dragged, spills trodden in. Bringing one back isn't a bigger version of a living room job, it's a different discipline: harder-wearing finishes, tighter timescales, and work that has to happen while the business doesn't.

Real commercial jobs you can read about on this site: the hall at Emanuel School in Battersea, The Bread and Roses pub in Clapham, and an office herringbone in Kensington
Out-of-hours as standard: evenings, weekends, school holidays and closed days, scheduled in writing around your trading
Industrial dust extraction on every floor machine, so the space is ready for use when we hand it back, not ready for a clean
Commercial-grade lacquers and oils specified for footfall, not just looks, and proven with a test patch before we commit
Family-run, with over 40 years' hands-on experience between the directors, same hands on every job

Luke Howard laying an oak herringbone floor in his Howard Naish work shirt

Luke, one of the two directors, on the tools.

Recent Commercial Work

Real Jobs, All On This Site

Emanuel School, Battersea: the full hall, sanded and refinished to schedule. Read the write-up.

The Bread and Roses, Clapham: a working pub floor revived with a deep clean, buff and re-oil, no sanding needed. The full story.

Kensington office: the before and after below, a paint-spattered herringbone brought back to a floor worth showing clients. See the Kensington page.

We don't publish invented case studies. If it's on the site, we sanded it.

Before and after of a Kensington office herringbone floor sanded and refinished by Howard Naish — Before & after · a Kensington office herringbone, sanded and refinished over a weekend shutdown.

A Scout Hall, Restored

Keyed Up and Recoated, Not Sanded

This Scout hall parquet did not need a full sand. We keyed up the existing finish, made good the worn patches and laid on fresh coats, sports lines included. The close-up is the halfway point of one recoated section: dull and tired on the left, deep and glossy on the right. The same floor, at a fraction of the cost and downtime of a full sand. That honest call is the difference between a big bill and a sensible one. Why not every floor needs a full sand.

Restored herringbone parquet sports floor with court lines in a Scout hall, refinished by Howard Naish

Close-up of the same Scout hall parquet mid-recoat: dull worn finish on the left, fresh glossy finish on the right

The Spaces We Work In

Commercial Floors, All Our Own Work

Schools, halls, churches, pubs, offices and shops across London. Every one is a real Howard Naish job, not a stock photo.

Freshly sanded golden pine floor in a church hall, restored by Howard Naish — Church hall, sanded pine

Restored herringbone parquet sports floor with court lines in a Scout hall by Howard Naish — Scout hall, parquet recoat

Dark wide-plank oak floor in a Balham jewellery shop, with Red the German Shepherd, by Howard Naish — Jewellery shop, Balham

Dark oak plank floor in a Mayfair jewellery showroom, sanded and finished by Howard Naish — Jewellery showroom, Mayfair

Restored herringbone parquet with a dark border in the reception of Redcliffe, a Chelsea apartment block, by Howard Naish — Reception parquet, Chelsea

Restored timber roof deck at Shoreditch House with the city skyline behind, sanded and oiled by Howard Naish — Roof deck, Shoreditch House

Rich glossy wood floor in the Hideaway Workspace offices in Streatham, sanded and finished by Howard Naish — Hideaway Workspace, Streatham

Before and after of a Kensington office herringbone floor refinished by Howard Naish — Office herringbone, Kensington

Re-oiled wooden floor at The Bread and Roses pub in Clapham by Howard Naish — The Bread & Roses, Clapham

What We Do For Businesses

Commercial Wood Floor Services

School Halls & Classrooms

Assembly halls, gyms, studios and classroom floors sanded and resealed in the holidays, planned backwards from the day term starts. Our Emanuel School job in Battersea is written up on the blog with photos: a working example of a big floor done to schedule. Tell us your term dates early; holiday weeks book out first.

Pubs, Bars & Restaurants

Hospitality floors soak up more punishment in a weekend than most homes see in a year. Sometimes the answer is a full sand; often it's smarter maintenance, a deep clean, buff and fresh oil, which is exactly how we revived The Bread and Roses in Clapham without closing it down. We'll tell you honestly which your floor needs, and our maintenance contracts then keep it that way on a schedule built around your trading hours.

Offices, Studios & Showrooms

Herringbone boardrooms, warehouse conversions, gallery and showroom floors, refinished over weekends so Monday opens on a floor that looks like the fit-out just happened. The gleaming office parquet on our Kensington page went from paint-spattered to showpiece exactly this way.

Halls, Churches & Community Spaces

Village halls, church floors and clubhouses: floors with decades of service and plenty more to give. We repair with reclaimed timber where boards have failed, sand with full dust extraction, and specify finishes that stand up to chairs, heels and hall-hire weekends.

Maintenance Programmes

The cheapest commercial floor is the one you never let get bad. A planned buff and re-coat every year or two costs a fraction of a full restoration and keeps the floor trading-smart permanently. We'll put your floor on a sensible cycle and remind you when it's due, and you can read why not every floor needs a full sand.

Every Commercial Quote Includes

Free site visit, fixed written quote, no obligation
A schedule agreed around your opening hours
Industrial dust extraction on all machines
Public liability insurance, certificate on request
Finishes specified for commercial footfall
Daily clean-down and clear handover times
Honest advice on sand vs revive

No Obligation

Running a business on that floor? One of us will come out around your opening hours and put a fixed price in writing.

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Straight Answers

Commercial Questions, Answered

Can you work outside our opening hours?

That's how most of our commercial work runs. Evenings, weekends, school holidays, or a closed Monday for a pub: we plan the job around your trading hours, not ours, and agree the schedule in writing before we start. The aim is that your customers or pupils never see a sander.

How quickly can a pub or restaurant floor be turned around?

It depends what the floor needs, and we'll tell you straight after one look. A maintenance revive, deep clean, buff and a fresh coat of oil, is the fast option and how we handled The Bread and Roses in Clapham. A full sand and refinish takes longer because finishes need curing time between coats. Either way you get real dates and drying times up front, so you know exactly when you can open the doors.

Do you fit carpet tiles, vinyl or other commercial flooring?

No. We're wood floor specialists and we stay in our lane: sanding, restoring, refinishing and fitting timber floors. If your project needs carpet tiles or vinyl as well, we're happy to work alongside whichever contractor handles those.

What about dust in a school or food environment?

Every floor machine we run is connected to industrial dust extraction, so airborne dust is minimal, and we sheet, mask and clean down daily as standard. For kitchens, serveries and classrooms we agree the containment plan with you beforehand, and we leave the space ready for use, not ready for a deep clean.

Can you do the work in the school holidays?

Yes, and we'd encourage booking early for it. Half terms and the summer break are when hall and classroom floors get done, and those weeks fill up first. Tell us your term dates and we'll build the schedule backwards from the day the caretaker needs the hall back.

Are you insured for commercial premises?

Yes, we carry public liability insurance, with the certificate available on request and we're happy to provide documentation for your facilities or management team before work starts. Same family firm on every job: Howard Naish Wooden Floors Ltd, and the reviews are public on Google and Checkatrade.

From Our Google Reviews

★★★★★

"A terrific service from Dean and Luke. They sanded and sealed the whole of our ground floor. They completed this in 4 days , having removed and replaced a lot of furniture. They worked solidly and professionally for the whole time . Very..."

Neil Myerson · Google review

Thirty Seconds, Five Boxes

Tell Us About Your Premises

Leave your details and we'll ring you back to arrange a free site visit at a time that suits the business.

We're booking about three months ahead at the moment, and a deposit holds your place in the queue. Dates tight? Ring us anyway, cancellations happen and smaller jobs can often be slotted in.

Every job is backed by the Howard Naish Workmanship Promise: 2 years on installation, 12 months on sanding and refinishing. If our work fails, we fix it.

Commercial or domestic, these are the areas we know best: Balham, Clapham, Dulwich, Wimbledon, Southfields, Tooting, Brixton, Streatham Hill, Crystal Palace, Gipsy Hill, Kensington, Purley, Sutton and Camberwell.

Free Quote, No Obligation

Your Floor, Back In Service

A free site visit at a time that suits the business, honest advice on sand versus revive, and a fixed written quote.

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