The Timeless Beauty of Plain Strip Flooring

Choosing plain floor boards, standard width or wide, for your floors to achieve  beautiful, long lasting hardwood flooring that will only improve with time. And if you want to fast forward the wearing process we can custom make heavy distressed floor boards that only solid boards can take.

There are 4 criteria to consider when choosing solid floor boards:

  • price,
  • preferred finish,
  • type of sub-floor,
  • thickness.

In many cases, be it a new project or a renovation, your timber floor will have to match the finished level of another floor, such as a tiled floor or carpet. this may require the boards to be of a specific thickness. Solid boards nailed on a plywood underlay may help reach the necessary height needed to match a thick stone floor. Our solid boards come in 15mm, 18mm and 20mm thickness, and up to 24mm for stair treads.

Why Timber over Engineered Hardwood? 

Compared to engineered boards, solid French or European oak is more durable (quite often it can be salvaged after a water damage) and it gives you access to antiquated finishes not available on engineered planks.

Hardwood Finishes 

We can supply a range of factory finishes including:

    • smoking,
    • wire-brushing
    • distressing.

Hardwood Grades 

You can combine such finishes with the appropriate grades:

  • Select (A – B)
  • Standard (B – C)
  • Rustique (C – D)

Floor Preparation

While secret nails on solid floor boards to timber joists is the traditional way of secting floor boards, direct stick is now also widely used and more suited to contemporary building styles.

We recommend plywood sheeting be nailed to the concrete slab prior to solid wide boards installation.