Floors & Staircase Renovation in London

There's a particular kind of floor underneath most London homes — original pine boards under decades of paint, parquet under carpet, or engineered timber in the more recently refurbished places — that responds incredibly well to being brought back. A floor sand and reseal can be the single highest-impact change in a room: the colour of the timber changes, the light bounces differently, and a room that looked tired looks like a different room entirely. We do this work alongside our painting jobs because the two so often go together: there's no point in repainting a room and leaving the floor.

We sand parquet, original pine, oak boards and engineered timber. The actual process is methodical: dust-extracted belt-sanding back to bare wood, edge-sanding right up to skirtings (skirtings get masked, not nicked), gap-filling with a sawdust-and-resin mix that takes the stain, and reinstating any missing or split boards from reclaim where possible. Then the floor gets a sealing system specced to how the floor will be lived on — hard-wax oils for the natural look with quick refresh-coats, lacquers for heavier traffic, stains where the client wants to shift the floor's tone, or matte/satin oils with a UV-resistant top coat in rooms with strong sunlight.

Staircases are the related half of the job: paintwork on stringers and risers, two-tone treatments where the riser is painted and the tread is sanded back to bare wood, custom runner installation with proper gripper rods and stair-rod brackets, balustrade and newel-post refinishing, and the patient detailed carpentry repair that comes with most period staircases — split treads, loose spindles, banged-up handrails. It all gets done in one visit by a team that's used to working around the family for the duration.