Does this floor look right

Cardinal-Red

Hi all I was looking for a bit of advice on some work we’ve had done.

We recently had our wood floors sanded and lacquered by a specialist company. In general the results are fantastic, but some of it really concerns me.

There are large areas of the floor where it looks “undone” although I have no doubt the team did cover the floor – they did 3 coats and so it would be impossible to miss these areas each time.

I raised it with him and the response was it was the grain of the wood, but I have doubts for 2 reasons:

• Although the previous treatment was “not great” (his words) these areas certainly were not visible
• If it was natural variation in the grain of the wood, why are they only at the edges of pieces and not more randomly dispersed

I’ve attached some pictures, hopefully they are clear:


https://www.amazon.co.uk/photos/share/6UseIBMjlFlx8ff8J3cCK3PqzwJ1c9lpEag5LVU1r7G

https://www.amazon.co.uk/photos/share/gLFU1itTuJnWNNOKWBJvytAKukN92j0bvY8hTe3KppL

Thanks!

JohnB47

Are you referring to the light coloured bits at the edges of some of the boards, some triangular and some long rectangular strips?

If so, could it be that the boards are laminate construction and they were a bit curved before sanding, so the sander has removed the top layer, the darker wood layer, on the parts where the boards curved up, leaving the lighter wood layer underneath exposed?

The boards might have warped because they were fitted on a sold floor before it had fully dried out.

Working_Mum

What did the floor look like before?

I think the patina etc of those floorboards look really light and natural - it's the nature of natural things there is no pattern is there!

Are you going to be covering that space with furniture?

-taff

I really can't tell because in the two pictures you've posted, the horizontal boards look perfectly normal, but the vertical ones don't.

Cardinal-Red

Thanks everyone.

In order (ish)...

Before the boards looked tired but there was definitely no sections of much lighter areas than others as we see here. However when he sanded the floor it was definitely even all over.

The boards are as far as I know just wood, not laminate construction, but as they were down when we moved in I can't say for sure.

I'm fine (and like) natural variation but it's just surprising to me that all of this variation comes on the edge of boards rather than evenly or randomly distributed throughout the whole floor.

And finally, there isn't really any horizontal or vertical pieces. All the wood is the same direction... It's just that each pic is from a different room, and I was rotated by 90 degrees in the second room

Would you like me to take some more and post them here? If so, what do you want to see?

ceredigion

The paler bits at the edge of the boards is the pith wood. The bit just behind the bark before they were milled. It is what it is I am afraid

-taff

Cardinal-Red wrote: »

And finally, there isn't really any horizontal or vertical pieces. All the wood is the same direction... It's just that each pic is from a different room, and I was rotated by 90 degrees in the second room

I know that was my rubbish way of differentiating between the two pictures