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  1. 10 Tips on How to Clean a Real Wood Floor

    Soild wood flooring (real wood) is a fantastic investment for your home, it’s hard to find a more timeless, stylish and effortlessly elegant choice for a property.

    Real wood has a wonderful natural allure, and its style is compatible with any interior design aesthetic. Plus, natural wood comes in a huge range of different designs and finishes, meaning you can find a customised wooden floor that perfectly suits your signature style.

    However, one of the most common questions that we get from customers that are thinking about investing in a new solid wood floor is, ‘how do you clean the floor?’.

    So, to answer this top wooden floor FAQ, we’ve created a dedicated guide to cleaning solid wood floors.

    Keep reading to find our top tips for looking after solid wood floors, and the most effective way to keep the floor clean.

    Benefits of Real Wood Floors

    Solid wood floors provide

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  2. How To Lay Laminate Flooring

    Laminate flooring is one of the most popular types of flooring out there, and it’s easy to see why.

    There are a huge range of benefits to laminate flooring, including impressive durability, scratch resistance, low maintenance and moisture resistance. Plus, not only is it highly affordable and available in a huge range of different styles, but it is also renowned for its ease of installation.

    Laminate flooring can be installed as a floating floor. This means that this flooring type does not need to be nailed or glued to the subfloor, making laminate flooring installation significantly quicker and easier - even if you’re a complete DIY rookie.

    To help you see how straightforward it is to lay laminate flooring, our flooring experts have shared their complete step by step guide to the process below.

    A step by step guide to laying laminate flooring:

    You will need the following equipment:

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  3. How to Lay Parquet Flooring

    Parquet flooring is an elegant and chic type of flooring, which is hugely popular amongst homeowners. 

    For those of you who are unfamiliar, parquet flooring consists of a series of small, wooden blocks (most commonly made of hardwood) which are arranged in geometric patterns. 

    There are a number of key benefits to investing in parquet flooring, particularly the visual wow-factor of its decorative appearance, its durability (thanks to the use of hardwood), and its ability to boost the resale value of a property. Plus, parquet flooring is highly versatile, and is available in a wide variety of different colours and pattern layout options. 

    What’s more, it’s also deceptively easy to install. 

    Don’t believe us? To help you see how simple this process is, our flooring experts have created a complete, step by step guide to laying parquet flooring below. 

    Step-by-step

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  4. How to Lay Vinyl Flooring Guide

    Vinyl flooring is an option that presents the best of both worlds. Not only does it successfully recreate the chic, classic aesthetic of wooden or tiled flooring, but it does so at a significantly lower price point.

    If you’ve not come across it before, vinyl flooring is a type of synthetic flooring, made from a blend of vinyl resins and plasticisers.

    It offers property owners a wide range of key benefits, including a high degree of durability and water resistance, ensuring that your new flooring will continue looking flawless for many years to come. Plus, it is remarkably low maintenance, available in a huge variety of colours and designs, and it is also one of the most affordable flooring options available.

    What’s more, vinyl flooring is also known for being deceptively easy to install, even for DIYers without prior flooring experience.

    If you’re looking to invest in new vinyl flooring for your property, keep reading. Below, our flooring

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  5. Which Laminate Flooring is the best?

    We find a lot of customers asking “Which Laminate Flooring is the best?“. An open-ended question, yes, but one that is backed by technical specifications and AC Ratings. We will go through different aspects of laminate, everything from durability to why laminate flooring generally shouldn’t be used in a bathroom. There will also be Pros & Cons of Laminate Flooring in this article, which will help you in making the right choice on whether laminate flooring is the best choice for you.

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  6. Floor Care & Maintenance: 101

    Caring for and maintaining your floor shouldn’t have to be hard or a chore, but, it does have to be done correctly to maintain an aesthetically pleasing, hygienic, and stable floor. Maintaining and caring for a floor could be anything from cleaning and hoovering, repairing, refinishing, mopping and even the use of mats or similar objects to improve the longevity of your flooring. In this article we run through floor care & maintenance – starting at your front door.

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  7. Which Flooring is the best flooring for kitchens?

    When asking “which flooring is best for my kitchen?”, you first need to examine your kitchen and plan accordingly. Kitchens come in all shapes and sizes, varying in different layouts and aesthetics. These reasons alone mean that LVT, vinyl roll, SPC or laminate flooring could be the perfect flooring choices for your kitchen.

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