Journal - Technical advice

For over twenty years, we’ve been selling smoked oak flooring at Solid Floor. The depth, richness, and warmth of tone that smoking imparts to natural oak is unparalleled.

The feeling of waking up in the morning and placing your feet on a luxuriously warm floor is a compelling one. It is a feeling that has not only been used to great advantage by the makers and marketers of this mode of residential central heating, but...

If you’ve ever pored over glossy images of smart, newly done-up interiors, you have no doubt spotted spaces with what appear to be vintage, warm and slightly worn timber floors running throughout them - but are they genuinely old?

Among the many desirable features of our floors is that most of them are sealed with hard wax oil creating a surface on the wood that is both pleasing to the eye and to the touch.

One of the most common questions we encounter in our showrooms runs along the lines of, “We just moved into an old property, and we have old pine floorboards. Should we try to restore them or should we replace them with new timber flooring?” Now, we...

A wood floor is the perfect addition to any interior, but choosing the right type of timber is essential. Learn about timber flooring and the significance of grading, to make an informed choice.

There are few things as pleasing to the architectural eye as a beautiful floor seamlessly flowing into a staircase, visually linking one level to the next.