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Jonnyboy

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Posted: Fri Jul 01, 05 12:38 pm Post subject: Floorboards and concrete floors.

To save some money we are having floorboards for most of downstairs, I'm planning on sanding and sealing them but the wood will alwasy be a bit soft. Is there any type of varnish that will help toughen up the wood?

Also, in the kitchen and back hall we are having a concrete floor, as it will be a few years until we can tile I'm looking to seal and paint this. Has anyone tried painting an internal concrete floor and with what success? I've seen examples of fake tiles and quite exotic designs in a concrete floor.

sean
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Posted: Fri Jul 01, 05 12:41 pm Post subject:
Not sure about anything to toughen the wood. Having stripped and sealed floorboards in the past (dancing with the devil's vacuum cleaner, as a friend of mine called it), I'd go for waxing them, then you can repair any local damage to the surface without having to do the whole floor.

tahir

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Posted: Fri Jul 01, 05 12:41 pm Post subject:
Painted concrete floors can look great but why bother? Just get some nice marmoleum? A totally natural and sustainable product with inbuilt antispetic properties and a huge colour range I was going to use it as the flooring of choice in all the wet areas of our new build. Lasts really well too.

tahir

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Posted: Fri Jul 01, 05 12:42 pm Post subject:
What wood are the boards?

Jonnyboy

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Posted: Fri Jul 01, 05 12:47 pm Post subject:
I'm assuming redwood or pine, fsc of course. I'll have to google that marmite stuff.

tahir

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Posted: Fri Jul 01, 05 12:48 pm Post subject:
https://www.completelyflooring.co.uk/index.php/cPath/82_123 It's made from linseed oil in Scotland

tahir

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Posted: Fri Jul 01, 05 12:50 pm Post subject:
This is the manufacturers site: https://www.marmoleum.co.uk/

Treacodactyl
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Posted: Fri Jul 01, 05 12:50 pm Post subject:
I'll have a dig to see if anything can be used to toughen them up. You can buy wood hardeners but I bet they are very expensive to use in large amounts and they are solvent based. There must be an old method. You could try oiling the floors, something I intend to do with ours when I get one of those 'round tuits'.

Jonnyboy

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Posted: Fri Jul 01, 05 12:50 pm Post subject:
Looks nice, it will be a better option than tiling but I still need to cover the subfloor with either concrete or floorboards first.

tahir

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Posted: Fri Jul 01, 05 12:52 pm Post subject:

Treacodactyl wrote:

You could try oiling the floors, something I intend to do with ours when I get one of those 'round tuits'.

I've asked at AECB, might get an answer, then again might not.

tahir

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Posted: Fri Jul 01, 05 12:53 pm Post subject:

Jonnyboy wrote:

Looks nice, it will be a better option than tiling but I still need to cover the subfloor with either concrete or floorboards first.

Marine ply?

Behemoth

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Posted: Fri Jul 01, 05 12:59 pm Post subject:

tahir wrote:

This is the manufacturers site:

https://www.marmoleum.co.uk/

Lovely stuff - I looked at this as an option in the past. Feels warm to bare feet unlike lino.

judith

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Posted: Fri Jul 01, 05 1:02 pm Post subject:
Yeah, marmoleum is lovely stuff. We put it in the bathroom at our last house and it looked great. Not all that warm underfoot though - mind you our bathroom was a bit on the chilly side at the best of times.

tahir

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Posted: Fri Jul 01, 05 1:02 pm Post subject:

Behemoth wrote:

Lovely stuff - I looked at this as an option in the past. Feels warm to bare feet unlike lino.

We've used it loads at work, a really excellent material, and like B says warm underfoot, I'll definitely be using it in bathrooms, kitchen, bog if i ever do a newbuild.

tahir

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Posted: Fri Jul 01, 05 1:03 pm Post subject:

Judith wrote:

Not all that warm underfoot though - mind you our bathroom was a bit on the chilly side at the best of times.

Well it's not carpet, I don't reckon it's any chillier than say wood floors.

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