Tag: flooring

  • Engineered Hardwood Flooring

    Hardwood flooring has become ever popular in many countries. In South Africa, home owners are opting for these in preference to the old style parquet and the laminated style of flooring. Hardwood floors go hand-in-hand with luxury, and offer timeless beauty and are low on maintenance. Home owners looking for a classic look might like…

  • Wooden Floors and Laminates

    Wooden Floors and Laminates

    We specialise in Solid Wooden Flooring, Laminates, Parquet flooring, Dustless Floor sanding and Sealing and repairs to wooden floors. Wooden floors exist in many different forms from Swiss Parquet, Parquet, Sprung or Suspended Floors or wooden floors that are adhered to the substrate. They come in many different types of wood and each one has…

  • Laminate Flooring Installers Durban and Cape Town

    Laminate Flooring Installers Durban and Cape Town

    Laminate flooring installation in Durban and Cape Town is a fairly large industry with many contractors and many suppliers. Installation prices are normally within a tight band with most installers charging more or less the same amount to install. Materials however can range greatly with some very affordable laminate floor boards and some more expensive…

  • Parquet Flooring Installer Durban and Cape Town

    Parquet Flooring Installer Durban and Cape Town

    Parquet flooring was very popular many years ago but a lot of it was covered up with carpets back in the 70’s. It seems crazy now that one could cover the parquet flooring with carpets, but that was the thing of the day and fashions come and go. I’ve recently refurbished several parquet floors by…

  • Solid Wooden Flooring Installers Durban and Cape Town

    Solid Wooden Flooring Installers Durban and Cape Town

    There are two ways one can install a solid wooden floor. One is to apply the boards directly to the concrete substructure using adhesive and the other is to suspend the floor with joists or batons. This is sometimes referred to as a sprung or suspended floor. In the first method it is imperative that…

  • Wooden Flooring Durban

    Wooden Flooring Durban

    Many years ago, as late as 1625, most European houses did not have a wooden floor. Instead they had a beaten earth floor which of course created problems with water and dust, as you can imagine. Wooden floors were reserved for wealthier people and in those days consisted of joists with planks of elm or…

  • Hardwood Flooring Companies in Durban

    Hardwood Flooring Companies in Durban

    Hardwood flooring is becoming very popular again in modern-day home building. There is a separate article on this blog about the history of hardwood floors so I won’t write much about that here. This article is intended to share some info I have gained about hardwood floors and how to ensure that you make the…

  • Solid Wooden Floors Installed in Saligna in Toti

    Solid Wooden Floors Installed in Saligna in Toti

    Here’s a solid wooden floor we installed using saligna in Toti, South of Durban. These solid wooden floors were done in saligna boards of about 22 x 72mm wide. The width of each board is always dependent on how wide the boards originally come in at. So these boards came in at about 25mm x…

  • Solid Wood Floors – All Brown Teak End Matched

    Solid Wood Floors – All Brown Teak End Matched

    These solid wood floors were installed in Hluhluwe in a house that was being renovated by the new owner on a farm. We used all brown teak, end matched. Most of our teak in South Africa comes from Zimbabwe and they are not allowing teak to leave the country without being machined there. So they…

  • Nailing Solid Wood Floor Boards

    Nailing Solid Wood Floor Boards

    Nailing solid wood floor boards down can be a time-consuming job if done manually. When nailing tongue and groove floor boards down, one needs to nail the nail through the tongue at 45° and counter sink it slightly so that the next floor board can be slotted in over the nail making it invisible. If…