Re-laying lifted blocks, replacing missing pieces and repairing original parquet and pine.
Splicing, patching and replacing damaged, water-marked or woodworm-affected boards.
Sanding and re-oiling or lacquering to a finish sympathetic to the floor’s age.
We assess the floor’s age, construction and condition and advise what can be saved.
Lifted, missing or damaged sections are re-laid, spliced or replaced in matching timber.
Careful sanding removes old finish without losing the floor’s character.
A breathable oil or traditional finish protects the floor and lifts the grain.
We supply and fit with our own trained team across Cambridge and Cambridgeshire, work to order, and stand behind the result with a workmanship guarantee. Visit our showroom at 3 The Broadway, Mill Road, Cambridge to see and walk on samples.
Yes. We re-lay lifted blocks, replace missing pieces in matching timber and re-finish original parquet and herringbone floors.
Restoration is often more economical and keeps a period floor’s character. We advise honestly once we’ve seen the floor.
Yes, we work sympathetically on period and listed properties across Cambridge and Cambridgeshire.
Cambridge and its surrounding towns are full of floors worth saving — Victorian pine, original parquet, herringbone blocks lifted and re-laid over a century of use.
Floor restoration is more delicate than a straight sand. It can mean lifting and re-laying loose blocks, sourcing matching timber for repairs, easing out old bitumen, addressing movement in a sub-floor, and only then refinishing. We approach each floor on its own terms, keeping as much of the original as possible.
A typical restoration mixes careful repair with sympathetic refinishing: replacing what is beyond saving, stabilising what has moved, and finishing the whole floor so old and new read as one. Where blocks are missing entirely, we can supply matching engineered oak from our herringbone and pattern collections to complete a floor.
In most cases, yes. Individual blocks can be lifted, repaired or replaced and the whole floor refinished — usually far preferable to losing an original floor.
We do our best to match species, block size and tone, and finish the floor as a whole so repairs blend in. A perfect match is not always possible with very old timber, and we will be honest about what is achievable.