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Lots of companies do wood floor cleaning products, which are fairly cheap and ridiculously easy to use, probably the most popular is the 'Bona Wood Floor Cleaning Kit' [google it] they are usually around the £25.00 mark and will last you a while before you need to buy the Bona Cleaner to top...

Hi Folks Our under 2 yr old boiler Ariston Genus 28 HE has just stopped heating the rads up, still got hot water, but no heat from the rads at all even though the control unit says the boiler is on [little flame pulsing away] The condensing bowl was full of water and sediment, I've just...

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Can i ask why on earth you want to put a coloured oil on old oak parquet blocks ?? The blocks will colourise beautifully with a clear HWO, you just don't need to use a coloured oil [IMHO] but it's obviously down to personal preference. There are several ways to put HWO onto a parquet floor...

Another very good filler which is well worth a mention is Junckers Basefill... Very similar to Lecol 7500 to use and in appearance, it's solvent based so is fairly strong smelling, but the smell goes after 15-20 minuntes, and it dries really quiclky as well, certainly much quicker than the...

Fully agree with WYL on the decorating, get as much done before hand as possible, and if you do hire a quality edging machine such as the excellent Bona 7" then you will be hard pressed to do any damage to the skirting boards, but i often advise clients to undercoat the skirts before sanding...

WYL i find it really easy to spot repair lacquered floors, and FYI i can apply any type of oil with the very best of them....done loads, but tell me .....whats better....2 or 3, everyone knows 2 coats of oil are applied to a floor, whereas any self respecting pro floorsander always applies 3...

Use the best Sanding gear you can afford, don't use the poor quality HT7 or HT8 from the hire shops, they are not in the same league as the Bona kit. You may be suprised at what grit level you will need to take off old lacquers and seals, if you start on 60grit you will be in for a long long...

As Glueman mentioned, the original bitumen glue would likely have been thought of as partly a DPM, when i am doing parquet block repairs to concrete floors which have a bitumen residue left on it, i apply 2 coats of a liquid dpm, either Lecol PU280 or Sika Rapid, both are superb products and 2...

Hi Lucy If the oak floor is looking a bit worse for wear with allot of family traffic all over it day in day out for 3 yrs, its very likely you will need a full sand and re-seal to get it looking its best again. If you want a tough non-slip finish i would recommend as follows 1 x...

Have just applied sika mb to a screeded subfloor in a Hallway of 11m2, it was initially primed with Fball Stopgap p131 after the old pine parquet blocks were taken up, floor scraped and thoroughly vacuumed. After the p131 was applied and allowed to properly dry, we then self leveled the floor...

The floor would likely have 'popped' or 'blown' even if it had been full contacted bonded in place or floated or fitted via the liquid batten method, the flood has likely also caused the expansion issues, and if the escape of water has ingressed under the floor i would suggest an urgent call to...

We put some of the Blanchon Wood Floor Environment on a oak sample board a couple of weeks ago to see how 'flat' and natural it looked alongside a portion of the board which had been lacquered (Junckers Profinish satin), we applied 3 coats of the WFE and to be fair it looked as though we hadnt...

don't waste your time and money on the small and expensive 750ml tins, its a false economy, i use Bona Novia allot, it comes in 5l & 10l cans, would recommend the 5l cans cos the 10l ones are heavy and a little awkward to use for the DIYer, Novia is a class act and does the business very well...

Has your friend had the heating cranked up on the high side?? having the heating on too high for prolonged periods can cause the wood to dry out and open up a bit hence the gaps. A humidifier would possibly help as it would put a little bit of moisture back into the atmosphere hopefully...