Faded engineered flooring

[YorkshireMidge]

Our south facing sunroom has Maple engineered flooring which has been down for around 15 years and has been bleached in the bright sunlight. The skirting was put on after it was laid - which gave a really nice neat finish without bits of quadrant, but makes it a more difficult job to replace. We're about to change the furniture (that has faded quite a bit too) and options under consideration are:

1. Just stick with the same layout, furniture size, rug size etc. and do nothing with the floor. You don't notice the fading until you lift something - as you see with the rug in the photo below.
2. Do circular saw cuts around the room and lift the floor, replace it, and do the edges with quadrant this time.
3. Lay something like timber effect Karndean on top of it. We have Karndean elsewhere in the house and been really pleased with it but not sure how fade resistant that would be in such bright sunlight. Any thoughts/experiences?
4. Hire a floor sander, and re-finish it. It is good quality stuff with a fairly thick top layer if I recall. Anyone done this and knows how much sanding would be needed to get the colour back/consistent + a good clear satin finishing coating that has really effective UV blockers in it to try and keep it looking good?

Size wise, the room is 25ft long x 11 ft wide so options 2/3/4 all involve some effort and its just a case of working out what is the lesser of the evils.

Thanks!

 

[Deleted member 174758]

Resand, stain to the required shade if necessary then relacquer. You will probably need to take 1 to 1.5mm off, no more, possibly less. Sawn/sanded maple is very light in colour and much of the colour is the result of applying the finish

 

[YorkshireMidge]

Resand, stain to the required shade if necessary then relacquer. You will probably need to take 1 to 1.5mm off, no more, possibly less. Sawn/sanded maple is very light in colour and much of the colour is the result of applying the finish

Thanks - I'm fairly sure I have a bit spare in the loft somewhere, so I can confirm the top layer thickness but that doesn't sound too bad an option.

 

[Deleted member 174758]

Remember that the end colour is affected by the type of finish you use. Oil finishes will generally darken and slightly yellow any "blonde" wood, and will naturally darken/yellow a little over time. Water-based finishes tend not to darken or yellow so much and are generally a lot bettwr in resistoing yelowing with age

 

[YorkshireMidge]

Thanks!