WHEN it comes to designing and developing residential properties, the initial planning process is more important than the construction process. You take a blank canvas and paint it with the possibilities of living. And every grand design starts with a solid base. Or shall we say floor.

Picking the right type of flooring for residential properties isn’t easy. There’s plenty to choose from, but if you’re looking for flooring that is as stylish as it is durable, adding atmosphere to any space, Raw Timber UV Oiled Oak Flooring is a great place to start.

But why is raw timber UV-oiled oak flooring perfect for residential properties? Our Light Brushed Raw Timber UV Oiled Oak Herringbone Parquet flooring was recently used in an open plan kitchen, diner and living area within a residential home.

This product creates a light engineered floor compatible with underfloor heating. It’s UV oil finish creates a good, hardwearing finish suitable for your home and other residential environments.
Whether it’s warming up homes in the winter months or creating a sense of cosiness in large residential properties, our engineered oiled oak flooring offers plenty of design opportunities.

Property buyers are looking to turn houses into homes, a space they can settle down in and stay forever. Design and develop homes that are as durable as they are stylish, using engineered UV Oiled Oak Flooring.

Its veneer means it can be sanded down and refinished several times, so it can last for many decades. It also means if a project’s design changes, the flooring can do without trouble.
Additionally, it’s suitable for moisture prone areas like basements and bathrooms. Its installation means it can tolerate more moisture than solid wood without showing damage or warping.
Raw Timber oil leaves the oak with its natural colour and finishes, rather than changing its natural look. Perfect for classic and traditional designs, it can look and feel like unfinished oak, but comes with a durable finish thanks to being cured through our factory process.

Furthermore, our engineered flooring can be used for cladding walls to create completely unique atmospheres in residential properties. We believe this not only transforms a space, but offers your project far more scope to create properties that feel like home.

Designing sustainable properties
At The Solid Wood Flooring Company, sustainability is in our DNA. As part of our commitment to protecting our planet’s future, we take pride in ensuring our products promote sustainable living.
Aiming to reduce personal and societal environmental impact, sustainable living promotes positive changes to counteract clime change. Sustainable living encourages us to minimise our use of the Earth’s resources and reduce the damage of human and environmental interactions.

Whilst there is no perfect picture of sustainable living or a blueprint for achieving zero net living, there are steps we can all take. For us, sustainable living starts with sustainable design, which will always need sustainable flooring.

That’s why we only source from well-managed, legal sustainable forests. It’s also why we manufacture our own wood flooring because we can control the sources of our raw materials unlike our competitors who buy from traders.

To ensure our materials come from certified, sustainable, and well-managed forests, we work closely with the Forest Stewardship Commission (FSC) and the Programme for the Endorsement of Forest Certification (PEFC).

Our FSC chain of custody certification means our materials have been identified and separated from ineligible and unacceptable ones as it makes its way along the supply chain from the forest to your project.

This means all our flooring can be traced back to the forest where it was harvested, ensuring it is responsibly managed.

Interior design advice: never build onto a wood floor
Wood doesn’t provide a good foundation to build on. Therefore, it is important to design any cabinets and internal furniture with their own structural base. By not sitting them directly on wood flooring, the floor’s finish can be easily repaired or removed should any damage occur.

Remember, wood flooring should never be used as a foundation, even if it is fully bonded, and building cabinets or stud walls onto any wood floor would be asking for serious trouble and remain the responsibility of the designer or specifier.

A Quick Guide to Fumed Oak Flooring
We take pride in offering oak flooring that doesn’t restrict interior designers and developers from transforming properties. Fumed Oak Flooring offers you limitless options for finishes and colours.
There are many ways to colour oak flooring, and one of the best is to fume the boards. In old stables with oak beams, you will see the effect created by horse’s excrement where the steam rises, which among other things, contains ammonia. This darkens the oak over the years by reacting with the natural tannins of the oak. The result is a very warm brown old-aged oak colour. This is the best way to create some ‘Grey’ oak floors as well, where the fuming time is much shorter.

Other methods include chemical staining, water-based stains, and reactive stains. Water-based stains are not very good as the colour will easily scratch. A lot of our competitors state their boards are fumed, but in reality, they are stained.

We use heated sealed containers to fume our fumed oak wood flooring. Solid Oak is impossible to fume over a short period, so we fume our oak veneers all the way through. Fuming can take anywhere from 7 hours to 7 days, depending on how dark the final wood floor needs to be.
To reduce colour variation, we use coloured oils so that any future damage is easy to repair.
If you’d like to find out more about how Raw Timber UV Oiled Oak Flooring can help your next residential project, please get in touch with us using the below details.
01666 504015
info@thesolidwoodflooringcompany.com
www.thesolidwoodflooringcompany.com