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A couple came into the showroom with a floor that had been sanded several times over the years. They live in a character part of the city of Perth and had beautiful Jarrah flooring. Because the floors had been sanded many times they were wondering what they could do to restore the flooring. Why is this question important? You cannot continually re-sand timber floors because eventually you begin to get cracking in the edges of the boards and you interfere with their ability to perform as a structural floor. In this case we are looking floor boards being the principal...

Case study. The owners of a hotel and restaurant were doing up a character older pub/restaurant and they really wanted to have some specific features. This was not to be some run of the mill location but something upmarket and professional with the anticipation of high traffic. Travelling around to different places some of the owners had seen black floors used in similar establishment in other parts of the world and noted how the colour black works in well with the sorts of fittings you normally see in a hotel or pub.  For example, consider the timber paneling generally in use...

Making a project using Australian timbers opens up a whole world of high quality options. Anyone who arrives on Australia’s shores is quickly confronted with timbers that are considerably harder than those that are used in other parts of the world. When we sent some timbers to Europe years ago we received phone calls asking about them because European manufacturers were finding that they needed to change the cutters in the machines that they were using three times as often as they had done before. The average Australian timber is over twice as hard as the average timber from the...

Three decades ago we built our reputation in sold timber flooring. Then in the late 90’s we experimented with engineered floors. Early results were mixed as engineered floors were not designed for Australian conditions and there were instances of delamination that created major headaches for some competitors. Then by a decade ago in 2010 we started to see much better floors emerging. Quality control has played a major role in this. At VCS Solid Timber Floors we now have over 300 flooring options and we have many floors in engineered options. Happily these are now available in grades as well...