Solid Oak Restoration and Sealing with Lacquered Satin Finish in Maida Vale

Do you know what is so great about hardwood oak flooring? It is beautiful, stable and very durable. This is the most popular type of wood flooring and we found it surprising that someone had decided to hide such a fine thing under a carpet. However, this was exactly what happened.

Wooden floors covered by carpets are like unopen Christmas presents – you are never sure what are you going to find below. The thing is that when people cover something like that, they usually do it to hide something. Seems that indeed, this was the case. At some point the owner of the house had an old dog which had accidents from time to time. The dog eventually passed out and the owner, unwilling to spend money on sanding the floor, decided to cover it with carpet.

A few years later, the owner decided he is willing to allow someone to restore his floor and called us. The problem with old pet stains is that they are incredibly hard to remove, especially if they had the time to fully dry. In this case, the stains had years to do exactly that. Even a floor sanding was not enough to remove some of the more persistent stains entirely and we had to replace some of the planks. We stripped the oak of its old finish and applied a few coats of Bona Mega with satin sheen. It took us three days to get the job done and client even said he is sorry he did not call us earlier. He seemed to enjoy the result and so did we.