Showing posts with label wooden floor under carpet. Show all posts
Showing posts with label wooden floor under carpet. Show all posts

Thursday, 1 October 2015

Why a wooden floor when I can Carpet?


Why in the world would I put down a wooden floor when I can just put a carpet down? Why spend all that money?

Well, here’s why.

For every person that pops over for a cup of tea, we guarantee a comment of “Oh, what a lovely floor” as opposed to those that pop over and see your carpet and say nothing.

For every penny you spend on your wooden floor, you’ll see constant and added value to your property, year in, year out. For every penny you spend on your carpet, you’ll see depreciation, year in, year out (unless you let us clean it on a regular basis).

Wooden flooring requires little but professional maintenance/care. Carpets require constant hoovering and cleaning.

Wooden floors give you a sense of class; a feeling of nature and warmth.

Wood is sustainable. You’re doing something for the environment and once you’ve bought it or reclaimed it from below that dusty old carpet, it’s with you for life.

Over the years, Art of Clean has seen wooden floors in a variety of styles and conditions. Ranging from the cared for to the down right abandoned, but on each occasion it's been our pleasure to restore said wooden floor to an excellent condition. 

From Pitch Pine to Teak, from Bamboo to Parquet, Art of Clean provides a service that discovers and maintains the glories of your wooden flooring. 



To help us in this endeavor, we joined forces with Pallmann - the leading wood floor finishing provider. Together we have managed to turn the wooden floors of Cambridge, Newmarket and the outlying areas into something special. 

Remember, when you need a job doing, call the Professionals.  




Art of Clean
 is a specialist cleaning firm in: 




Working for domestic or commercial clients throughout Cambridgeshire, Essex, Suffolk and Hertfordshire.

For more information on our services contact our friendly team on 01223 863632 or email us at info@artofclean.co.uk

Monday, 9 February 2015

Bad quality wooden floor under carpet?

We see a great shift where people remove the carpets in homes - in particular the ground floor living areas to expose beautiful wooden floor underneath.

In most cases these wooden floors that have not seen the light of day for many years are actually not intended to become finished wooden floors. The "sub-floor" was intended the have flooring installed over it and it was (and in most cases is still) covered with carpets.

These pine floors do restore well and can give a lovely character to a home. Here are a few things to take note of when you decide to make your sub-floor your main floor.

Previous repairs and damage or cuts in the boards

Some trades people (electricians and plumbers) will lift your carpet and to install cables and pipes beneath the floorboards simply hack through the floorboards - It is understandable as at the point this happen there will unlikely be an intention to sand and finish these floors

In some cases some boards gets replaced with much cheaper softer and lighter pine (most older floors are made up of Pitch Pine)

Gaps between boards

As your underlay and carpet stopped air moving through the floor - once you lift the carpet you will find there is more air movement and the room is then much more likely to have a cooler feel to it.

- See our blog post here on how we filled gaps between pine boards - http://artofcleanuk.blogspot.co.uk/2015/01/pine-floor-board-sanding-filling-and.html

Sanding Quotation Pre-Inspection
We experience many home owners lift parts of the carpets in the home and phone for a quotations after they discover what they belief was a hidden treasure - Once we inspect the floors we will only see parts of the floor and it will not be possible to make an informed decision and it will not be possible to provide you with a quote


If you are serious to get your newly discovered wood floor restored it is strongly advised that all of the carpets will have to be removed.

Once the whole floor is exposed we will happily provide you advice on what can be done on your floor and this will allow you to make an informed decision.

Very important: the carpets need to be out of the way for us to see what repairs will be 
required.




Art of Clean is a specialist cleaning firm in: 






Working for domestic or commercial clients throughout Cambridgeshire, Essex, Suffolk and Hertfordshire.

For more information on our services contact our friendly team on 01223 863632 or email us at info@artofclean.co.uk