On this job the reclaimed parquet from Parquet Parquet has been cleaned on all 4 sides. Parquet is then laid in herringbone pattern, sanded, gap filled and lacquered (Junckers Strong).
Engineered oak flooring, 190mm wide and 20mm thick. Installed over plywood.
Also mdf skirting installed on curved wall by making equally spaced out cuts in skirting which allows it to be bent. Any hollow parts of the skirting are then filled in with white filler.
Finished - lacquered.
Here we are levelling concrete floor using self levelling compound, preparing the subfloor to lay reclaimed parquet herringbone parquet.
After the compound is dry we'll apply 2 coats of damp proof membrane prior to installing wooden flooring. Look out for more pictures of this job.
Few photos below of our recent herringbone parquet fitting job in Clapton E5. Reclaimed Afrormosia block, after it was fitted we've sanded it down and sealed with three coats of Junckers Commercial lacquer.
We have a few photos of herringbone reclaimed parquet floor fitting in progress. This beech block is reclaimed which came from s school in Somerset. The block was actually made in Yugoslavia, when it was a single country, therefore the block is older than 20 years. Can't wait to see how the floor turns out once it is sanded and sealed! The job we are doing is in New Cross SE14
We've fitted 45 sqm of reclaimed herringbone parquet flooring on plywood in a residential house in Tooting, SW17. Photos below. A difficulty we had with this job was that the parquet block was not an easy job to clean as we previously thought. It had to be cleaned from 5 sides to get it ready for laying which took us a very long time indeed. We laid parquet with a 2 block border. The laid afrormosia parquet was then sanded down and sealed with 3 coats of lacquer. In the end it was very much worth it - Afrormosia parquet has this warm and unusual shade to it and is rare to get now days. We could only see the beauty of the parquet at the very end and the floors were lacquered. Lacquer gave more depth to the colour of the block and also highlighted the grain of the wood.
We install herringbone parquet from £30.00 per sqm.