Finished pale engineered oak floor in a renovated Tooting SW17 period room, laid by Howard Naish

Installation & Sanding · SW17

Wood Floor Installation & Sanding in Tooting, SW17

Full floor renovations done properly: old boards stripped out, joists insulated, a brand-new engineered oak floor supplied, fitted, sanded and finished on site, right across Tooting, Tooting Bec, Tooting Broadway and Furzedown.

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Why Tooting Clients Choose Us

A Whole Floor, Start to Finish

The photo alongside is a real recent Tooting job with the floor opened right up. We stripped out the old, worn pine floorboards, then insulated between every joist with a breathable Klober membrane, the grey layer you can see running across the void. On top of that we supplied and laid a brand-new engineered oak floor, then sanded and finished the whole thing on site. One team took it from bare joists to a warm, draught-free floor, and that is the kind of full renovation most sanding firms won't take on.

Full floor renovations: strip-out, insulate the joists, supply, lay, sand and finish, all as one job
Breathable membrane and insulation laid while the boards are up, so the room holds its heat and loses the draught
Engineered oak, herringbone and chevron sourced through our trade suppliers, with samples brought to your door
Original boards still worth keeping brought back with a three-stage sand instead of ripped out
Family-run, with 22 years' hands-on experience, same hands on every job

Tooting is home turf for us. Like a lot of South London kids, we got taken to Tooting Bec Lido on the hottest days of the summer, that huge open-air freshwater pool on the Common, and then came the shock of a lifetime jumping into water that cold in the middle of a heatwave. The streets around it are why this kind of work comes up so often here. The SW17 terraces off Trinity Road and around Tooting Bec Common are almost all Victorian and Edwardian, with suspended timber floors sitting over open, draughty voids. The Totterdown Fields estate, one of London's earliest London County Council cottage estates, was built between 1901 and 1911 and is a conservation area to this day. Floors of that age are worth doing properly, and when the old boards are past saving, a new floor laid over an insulated void is a genuine upgrade on what was there.

Open joists with grey breathable Klober membrane laid between them during a Tooting SW17 floor renovation by Howard Naish

What We Do Here

Our Services in Tooting

Full Floor Renovations

The complete job, like the one above: old boards lifted, joists insulated with a breathable membrane, a brand-new engineered oak floor supplied and laid, then sanded and finished on site. One quote covers the strip-out, the wood and the work, so a tired, draughty floor becomes a warm one you'll keep for decades. See our installation and supply page.

New Floors, Supplied & Fitted

Engineered oak, herringbone and chevron sourced through our trade suppliers for renovated Tooting homes and conversions. We bring samples to your door so you choose the board in your own light before anything's ordered, and one team lays it, sands it and finishes it. No juggling a supplier and a fitter between you.

Sanding & Restoration

The Victorian and Edwardian terraces off Mitcham Road and around Tooting Common are full of original pine hiding under carpet. Where the boards are worth keeping we bring them back with a three-stage sand, repairs in reclaimed timber of the same era, and a finish tested on your own floor first. The house stays liveable throughout.

Staining & Colour

Warmer, cooler, paler or near-black: colour is chosen on your floor, never off a brochure, and always proven with a free patch test on your own boards first. Useful when a new floor has to sit alongside older boards elsewhere in the house. More on our floor staining page.

Repairs & Gap Filling

Split or missing boards replaced with reclaimed pine so the repair disappears into the floor, and draughty gaps filled with a flexible filler that moves with the seasons instead of cracking out. We've written both up: reclaimed board repairs and flexible filler vs resin.

Every Quote Includes

Free site visit, fixed written quote, no obligation
Industrial dust extraction on all machines
Full public liability insurance
Dust sheets, skirting masking, door seals
Daily clean-down: your home stays liveable
Aftercare guidance for years of good looks

Try Before You Book

See It In Your Own Room First

Weighing up a pale engineered oak against a warmer plank, or a stain against natural? Upload a photo of your room and watch the floor transform, your first visualisation is free. Your personal code for ten more comes with your free site visit.

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Straight Answers

Frequently Asked in Tooting

Can you fit a brand-new floor as well as sand old ones in Tooting?

Yes, and it's a big part of our Tooting work. The job on this page was a full renovation: we lifted the old pine floorboards, insulated between every joist with a breathable membrane, then supplied and laid a brand-new engineered oak floor and sanded and finished it on site. We also bring tired original boards back with a three-stage sand when they're worth keeping. On a site visit we tell you honestly which route suits your floor.

Why insulate between the joists when you replace a floor?

Because a suspended timber floor over an empty void is one of the coldest and draughtiest parts of a Victorian or Edwardian Tooting house. Once the old boards are up and the joists are open, it's the one moment you can insulate properly. We lay a breathable Klober membrane and insulate between all the joists so the void can still breathe and the timber stays dry, while the room above holds its heat and loses the draught coming up through the gaps.

How long does a full floor renovation take in a Tooting terrace?

A full strip-out, insulate, supply, lay and finish is longer than a straight sand, usually most of a week for a main room depending on size and how the boards come up. A three-stage sand and finish of an existing floor is more like two to three days. We give you a realistic day count with your written quote, work room by room and clean down at the end of each day so you can plan around it and stay in the house.

Do you supply the new wood or do we buy it ourselves?

We supply it. We source engineered oak, herringbone and chevron through our trade suppliers and bring samples to your door so you can see and feel the boards in your own light before you commit. You get one quote covering the wood and the fitting, which keeps it simple and means one team is responsible for the whole floor from strip-out to final coat.

What's parking and access like for you around Tooting?

We handle it. Tooting is busy with controlled parking around the Broadway, the High Street and Mitcham Road, so we sort permits or suspensions where they're needed and carry the kit in whatever the street's like. Tight terraced hallways off Trinity Road, upstairs conversion flats and the narrower Totterdown Fields cottages are all standard for us, and every machine runs through dust extraction so the house stays clean.

Are you insured and Checkatrade approved?

Yes to both. We carry full public liability insurance, and our reviews are public on Checkatrade and on Google. Same name on every job in Tooting and across South London: Howard Naish Wooden Floors Ltd.

Local Knowledge

Tooting Areas We Cover

All of Tooting SW17 and the streets around it including: Tooting Broadway and the High Street, Tooting Bec and the roads around Tooting Bec Common and the Lido, Mitcham Road and Trinity Road, the terraces around Amen Corner, the Totterdown Fields conservation area, Furzedown to the south, and out to the Balham (SW12), Streatham and Wandsworth borders. Whether it's a full floor renovation, a brand-new floor supplied and fitted or original boards brought back to life, we're regularly on these streets.

Also serving: Balham (SW12), Clapham (SW4), Dulwich (SE21), Wimbledon (SW19), Purley (CR8), Kensington (W8), Gipsy Hill (SE19), Crystal Palace (SE19), Camberwell (SE5), Streatham Hill (SW2), Brixton (SW9) and Sutton (SM1).