Family business established since 2005 in Cambridge. Our mission is to give 100% satisfaction to all our clients. Art of Clean has been sanding and finishing wood floor many years. We sand and repair any types of wood floor in Cambridge. 01223 863632
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I want to share with you the special qualities of Pallmann Magic Oil, which is a great product to use on the installation, renovation and maintenance of wood flooring.
This morning Pierre was mixing a bespoke colour using Pallmann Magic Oil 2K on a sample piece of solid oak wood to show to a customer.
Before applying the oil mix, the wood sample was sanded back using a 60, 80 and 100 grit sanding paper. The wood was also water popped, which means light moisture is used to open the grain, which in turns swells the wood fibres and more colour is accepted into the wood.
The oil is then mixed using 15% black and 85% brown. The oil is applied to the wood and forced into the fibres of wood with a green hand pad and the excess removed.
Pierre was using a piece of oak, but Pallmann Magic Oil works well on pine and most other types of wood.
As well as black and brown the other main colours are white, grey, dark brown, red brown and natural .
Some of the benefits of using magic oil, apart from the ones already mentioned are the four hours drying time and so the floor can be used much quicker, as opposed to 12 hours with other brand floor oils.
Magic Oil also comes with a hardener which makes it much harder wearing than many other oils. Also, if the floor is scratched the floor can be easily repaired with simply keying back the area and then apply a re-oil.
In the case of coloured oil, you would need to key back the whole floor.
Below is a previous example using Treatex (left) and Liberon (right).
Here at Art of Clean, we love to keep you informed on what the team have been working on recently. This week, Nathan and Ben were sent out to sand and oil a oak wood floor. The oak wood floor was in pretty good condition, but over time wear and tear had become apparent and with a high volume of traffic through the house, scuff marks and dents in the oak floor had become obvious but with no other issues, made the sanding very straight forward.
Due to wood being natural it needs expansion gaps around the edge of the room, so the floor boards were cut short of the wall to allow for movement. To cover these gaps quadrant beading was placed to finish off the floor to hide these gaps. Our client wanted all the old beading replacing which was a relatively big job in itself.
We sanded the floor and finished it to 80 grit. After sanding, the rest of the day was spent measuring, cutting and pinning down the new oak quadrant beading.
Solid oak wood flooring is a joy to have and looked after carefully will be an investment that needs to protecting with the correct care and attention. Here are some simple steps to maintain your oak wood floor.
keep dust and dirt particles away by mopping the floor about once a week, with hand-warm water. Don't soak the floor with water, just dip the mop into the bucket of water and squeeze firmly.
to prevent furniture from damaging the solid oak wood floor, use pads on feet of chairs and tables and rugs are great to stop high volume of traffic from scratching the surface.
immediately wipe up all liquid spills of any kind. Don't risk liquids staining the floor or getting into the gaps between the boards, which could cause swelling.
