North View Cottage

North View Cottage

15 Jan 2012

Florence Solid Oak Flooring

Florence Solid Rustic Oak 90mm Lacquered Flooring is 90mm wide, has a total thickness of 18mm and comes in random lengths of between 300mm-1400mm, with an average length of 700mm. Each of the planks has bevelled edges (V Grooves) on all four sides resulting in very distinctive groove between the planks, adding more depth and dimension along with giving an individual definition to each plank. 



Although this is a solid wood flooring all the way through it still has a wear layer above the tongue and groove, sanding cannot surpass this point. On this floor that wear layers is 7.0mm which if need can be sanded and re-finished up to 9 times, but under a normal maintenance program and in a domestic environment the floor should not need to be sanded for around 20 years. The floor is constructed like a tradtional hardwood floor out of one peice to timber.
The rustic grade of this hardwood is a very vibrant colourful floor full of character and excitement. The floor can display heavy grain markings, figuring, mineral streaks, colour variations, sapwood and frequent knots of varying sizes. Knot holes, checks splits and other imperfections are allowed, filled and finished.The floor is prefinished with a very durable satin lacquer which leaves the floor with an even sheen that gently reflects the light. The lacquer also gives great protection to the hardwood itself and allows for easier cleaning and maintenance.

Rear Bedroom / Sitting Room Floor

We are still undecided as to use of the rear room to the right off the hallway...
Initially it was divided into two tiny bedrooms, but we demolished the dividing wall, however as we can forsee that we may only need one bedroom for use in the future, I have an idea that we may use this as a daytime sitting room.  During the day, as this room is south facing, the sun shines in brightening and warming the room, whereas the lounge is actually north facing and a cooler room






We laid a 10mm thickness green fibreboard underlay on top of the dpm and 3mm foam underlay, to bring the flooring up to the same level as the hallway, to allow a continuous level throughout.  The oak flooring is now complete, thanks to Hubby's hard work and my labouring duties...the room now awaits skirting board and curtain poles...

Bathroom Door Handle and Lock

We decided to fit a Rim lock type handle and lock to the bathroom door. This was an ebay purchase, decided to stick with brass finish the same as other room door handles.


8 Jan 2012

Kitchen Floor progressing...

We made a start to lay oak flooring in kitchen, using similar damp proof membrane and underlay as in the hallway. A friend volunteered his help for a few hours.

We can only lay approx 8-10 rows of boards until we need to leave glue to set before continuing with next rows following day.







Update...oak flooring is now complete in the kitchen..next project will be to fit skirting boards