In many pre-war houses in Leiden there is still a wooden floor under the carpet or laminate. Often it’s wide pine boards, sometimes an oak herringbone. With a good sanding and a new finish you’ll enjoy it for years again.
We sand in three passes, from coarse to fine, with a machine hooked up to dust extraction. Loose boards get fixed down first. Gaps we fill with a strip of wood or with filler in the colour of the floor.
Oil soaks into the wood and gives a warm, matt floor you can touch up in places. Lacquer is harder and easier to keep clean, handy in a kitchen or a hallway where the bike comes in. Marloes brings samples, so you see the colour on your own floor.
After oil you can walk on it in socks after a day, after lacquer after half a day. Furniture can go back after three days, a rug only after a week.
In a living room or bedroom usually oil, in a kitchen or busy hallway lacquer. If you’re not sure, we put both down on an inconspicuous patch.
Window frames, doors, facades and gutters. Thoroughly prepared, because paint is only as good as what is underneath it.
Walls, ceilings, stairs and doors. Neatly masked, sanded with little dust and in a colour you still love a year later.
From glass fibre wallcovering to floral wallpaper with a pattern that lines up perfectly, even around the chimney breast.
Rot in a window frame or sill? We cut it out and fill it with epoxy or a new piece of timber, so the whole frame can stay.
Painting, repairs, new sealant and glazing beads. From the sash window in a canal house to the tilt-and-turn window in a 1930s home.
Marloes comes round with the fan deck and test swatches. Colour advice is free with every job.
