Floor Sanding & Restoration in Southfields, SW18

Why Southfields Clients Choose Us

Saved, Not Replaced

This job is a Victorian terrace a few streets from Southfields station. Years before we arrived, someone had sanded the oak unevenly and dressed it in an all-in-one stain and lacquer, the kind you pick up off a DIY-shed shelf. Products like that are far too weak for a family kitchen: it was chipping, scratching through, and grey patches were spreading where the wear had gone right down to bare wood. The owner assumed the boards were finished and asked us about replacing the floor. We measured the wear layer first. There was plenty of good oak left, great boards in fact, they just deserved a proper finish. So we stripped everything back: the failed finish, the scratches, the grey and the machine marks from the earlier sand. Then we ran free stain patch tests on her own boards until the colour was right. LOBA Provincial won, giving her the weathered tone she wanted, sealed under a professional lacquer. The photo alongside is the satisfying bit: half the old orange floor gone, half still waiting its turn.

• Floors written off by their owners honestly assessed, wear layer measured before anyone mentions replacement
• Failed DIY and all-in-one finishes stripped right back to clean, bare oak
• Scratches, grey patches and old machine marks sanded out with our three-stage process
• Stain colours proven with free patch tests on your own boards, never off a chart
• Family-run, with over 40 years' hands-on experience between the directors, same hands on every job

Southfields is a weekend fixture for Dean these days. His little boy is mad for Gravity, so Saturdays often start with an hour of trampolines before the two of them wander the Grid on the way back. Those tidy terraces between Replingham Road and Wimbledon Park Road went up around the turn of the century and nearly all of them still have their original timber floors. Plenty have suffered a rushed sand or a bargain-shelf finish somewhere in their past. As this kitchen proves, that's rarely the end of the story.