Caring for your timber floor

Timber floors have a very unique and distinctive quality which makes them a great flooring material. Each timber species used is unique, from colour, texture, and wear-ability.

Maintaining timber floors is easy, but depends on several factors. One of them is the coating or finishing material used.  It may be necessity for your timber floors to be re-coated several times over there lifetime. This ensures an enhanced years of your floor. After all, regular care and cleaning is a basic need for your timber floor. It does not only protect your floor’s finish, it also protects your floor timber.

That’s why it is importance to keep up regular maintenance of timber floors.

Caring for your new floor

It is a fact that a newly finished timber floor can be walked on straight away, but it’s a big “no” in a professional’s point of view.

Just like any other materials or products, if it is new it should be treated with utmost care and specific precautions should be taken to prevent any damage. In your timber floors case, the finish or coating can be appear dry on the top, but deep inside the coating is still working its way into the timber, is not fully dryyet. A span of 2 weeks is a safe mark to consider your timber floors is already safe to be used.

Here are some precautions you should be aware of to ensure your timber floor retain its look:

• Avoid using rugs and rubber backings when your timber floor has just undergone re-coating or even first coating. These items can stain your floor surface.
• Avoid sliding furniture through your floor surface. It can scratch or stain your floor.
• You can put in your light furniture but make it sure that they are installed with protective pads.
• Bigger appliances such us fridges and cabinets should be put in place by lift and not by dragging them. It can cause dents and scratch which doesn’t look good on your timber floor.

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