Tag: solid

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • Wooden Parquet Floor Sanding and Sealing

    Wooden Parquet Floor Sanding and Sealing

    We were called to quote on sanding and sealing the wooden Swiss parquet floors in an old house in Hillcrest. From the pics alongside you can see that these rooms are the typical large ones found in older houses. The Swiss parquet floors have probably been there well on 40 years or probably even since…