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    Removing Paint from Pine Floorboards

    Hello, I'm hoping you can give me some advice on removing paint from pine floorboards. I would like to remove various splodges of paint from some old oiled pine floorboards. I have attached some example photos. What would be the best way to do this? Is there a cleaner you'd recommend? If I...
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    Best flooring over a wooden shed floor?

    Hello, I have a new wooden shed. I would appreciate any recommendations on what is best to lay over the wooden floor to protect it? It has a concrete paver base and sits on a wooden riser. This is a question for the interior floor. I was going to lay rubber flooring but thought that this will...
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    Found dip in subfloor after installing engineered flooring

    I have just finished installing a new floating, click together, engineered wooden floor in my first floor bedroom. I had been pretty diligent to prepare the room before hand, remove any raised nails, splats of plaster etc, and check for any dips in the subfloor. I didn't notice any. The...
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    Engineered wood floor underlay and carpet transition

    I am laying an engineered wooden floor in my first floor bedroom. Transition The hallway outside the bedroom is carpeted, and so was the bedroom. So there is a brass grip strip along the door threshold. What is the best way to replace this strip so that the carpet is kept tacked down, but...
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    Glue for laying floating engineered flooring

    I am going to be laying a floating, tongue and grooved engineered flooring in my bedroom. It's on the first floor and suspended timber subfloor. I was wondering what glue people would recommend for the T&G joints, or is any good weatherproof PVA glue sufficient? I would rather use something I...
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    Wooden floorboards shrunk

    We went on holiday for three and a half weeks and due to a thermostat error the heating was in full blast. Our oak floorboards have shrunk to cause a separation in the floor in many areas. Some gaps are a good 1.5cm and shows the floor below. Does anyone know how to restore the floorboards...
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    Wood flooring, Doubt on expansion gap

    Hi, Planning to lay engineered wood on living, dining and kitchen floor (Cambridge, UK). Most videos that I watched starts off with nailing the first and last planks or glue the entire floor to sub-floor leaving an expansion gap of ~15 mm. My doubt is if the fist and last planks are nailed or...
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    Restoring/sanding old floorboards

    Hi All Just moved to a new house and pulled back the carpet in the lounge to find the old floorboards (I assume pine?). They've been painted quite a thick dark green (see pic attached) and I would like to try and restore them back to their original wood and treat them. IMG_6133 by Will B...
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