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Floors and Stairs

General

  • Preparing an old wooden floor for a new floor
  • Different kinds of floor covering
  • Preparing a concrete surface for a new floor

Floor Tiles

  • Cork Tiling
  • Quarry tiles
  • Vinyl coated tiles
  • Thermoplastic tiles
  • Terrazzo marble tiles
  • Vinyl tiles
  • Mosaic tiles
  • Floor tile calculator
  • Ceramic floor tiles
  • Rubber tiles
  • Carpet tiles

Other Flooring

  • Wood block / Parquet floors
  • Mosaic Wooden Flooring
  • Wooden flooring
  • Linoleum
  • Draught proofing a timber floor

Floorboards

  • Stopping creaking floorboards
  • Bare floorboards
  • Replacing a section of floorboard

Stairs

  • A new look for existing stairs
  • Fixing creaking stairs

Latest Articles

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    A homeowner has just had a new concrete shed base laid by a tradesman, but the finish isn’t right. One corner sits about 20mm lower than the other three, and there are smaller dips and patchy …
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    A homeowner has a houseful of double-glazed uPVC windows fitted by a national installer maybe ten to fifteen years ago. Several of the handles have gone loose – one or two feel like they could …

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