Materials

Wood Flooring Finishes
Wood Flooring Adhesives
Sealants for Sub Floors
Underlays and Acoustic underlays for wood flooring
Flooring Accessory Pictures
Blanchon Hardwax & Oils
Blanchon Floor Maintenance
WOCA Woodcare Denmark
WOCA Oils for Wood Floors
WOCA Floor Maintenance
WOCA Oil Application
Lacquer Wood Floor Maintenance
Manufacturing Wood Floors
Parquet Hardwood Flooring Panel Flooring Details
Antique and Heritage Oak Wooden Flooring

WOCA Oiled Finished Wood Flooring ...more info
Personal Quotation for Wood Flooring ...more info
WOCA Oils from Wood Care Denmark ...more info
Technical Specification Documents ...more info
WOCA Wood Floor Maintenance Kits ...more info
Sub Floors and their inherent problems for wood flooring ...more info
EAZY FIT Parquet Flooring fitting costs ...more info
Wood Flooring Sustainability ...more info
Adhesives For Engineered Wood Flooring ...more info
Wood Flooring Fitted Pictures ...more info
Manufacturing Wood Floors

Manufacturing Wood Floors

Manufacturing Wood Floors
Manufacturing Wood Floors
Manufacturing Wood Floors
Manufacturing Wood Floors
Manufacturing Wood Floors
Manufacturing Wood Floors
Manufacturing Wood Floors
Manufacturing Wood Floors
Manufacturing Wood Floors
We have invested heavily with our partners to establish high quality manufacturing facilities that can produce the best flooring available in the market today. We use only modern European machinery as well as German and Swiss adhesives and finishes. We also use Woodcare Denmark (WOCA) oils on our oiled floor finishes. This picture shows Stair Nosing ready for packing.
 
Due to increased demand for our general and designer range of wooden flooring we have added a brand new manufacturing facility to keep up with demand. The pictures in the section show the early days before we were into full production. The machinery is the latest in sophisticated technology to ensure that we meet our clients exacting demands. Take a few minutes clicking on the pictures to see our dedicated facilities and examples of quality control. Cleanliness is very important and the correct packing ensures that the flooring remains in a pristine condition until it reaches its final destination.
 
If you click on the pictures you will get a better idea of what we mean with modern German and Italian machinery to process the flooring in a professional environment. It is important for you to understand that we are not a back street workshop but a major flooring company with modern up to date facilities.
 
 
We test all our flooring for moisture at the beginning during and at the end of the production cycle. All our engineered boards spend time in a balancing chamber which is similar to a kiln that dries timber to ensure that the moisture content of both parts of the engineered boards, top layer and plywood base have the same moisture content. This will make the engineered wood flooring much more stable than our competitors.    
 
Our Antique hand distressed boards are exactly that distressed by hand not machine like most of our competitors. We careful select the raw material to get character to ensure that each board is individually sculptured to get the best finish possible. This is why our antique boards are the best on the market done by a skilled craftsmen on a bench.
 
 
Moisture meters are used constantly to check both humidity levels and the moisture content of the wood as it is processed, you can see more in the video section on moisture meters and how they work and why we need them
 
Cold Press method of making engineered boards we use Dynea adhesives for all our Oak, Walnut and Maple Engineered Wood Flooring Boards.
This is where hydraulic presses squeeze the solid top layer of oak to a plywood base or where Bamboo is glued together to make a floor board. In a cold press the moisture content is hard to control as modern adhesives are water based and the best you can expect is 10%  to 12% moisture within the finished floor. This is why with oak engineered boards where we use a cold press to ensure that there is no colour variation on the top surface we have a balancing chamber which is like a hot oven similar to a kiln dryer that ensure that both the top and bottom layer have the same moisture content after the pressing and before sanding and finishing.
The pressure exerted is more than 2000 tons on a cold press and up to 4000 ton on a hot press. When the boards come out of the balancing chamber we then cut the edges before processing.
The hot pres not only exerts high pressure but also heats the boards through and with Bamboo we turn up the amount of heat to “carbonise” the boards at the same time. The hot press helps to melt and cure the adhesive into the grain structure of the boards to ensure a lifelong product that will not fail.
Bamboo Flooring Manufacture
For all our Bamboo manufacturing we use the hot press method and for a lot of our Oak, Maple and Walnut flooring we use cold presses and in some instances hot presses.
The following characteristics between hot presses and cold presses in bamboo flooring manufacture are shown below. The CHEAP Bamboo  products use cold presses with staining of the Bamboo to get the =different colours. In our high quality Bamboo we use the Hot Press method which also gives our Bamboo Flooring higher density and is also harder than most of our competitors
Density with the hot press using a higher force we get a much denser strand woven bamboo than our competitors
Cold press 0.97 – 1.07 g/cm3
Hot press 1.2g/cm3
Hardness this is where the hot press wins out.
Cold Press 2500 psi
Hot Press 2700 psi
The hot press method also ensure a more stable floor board that will not warp bend or twist
The cold press for Bamboo is limited to a width of 96mm due to the constraints on making sure the board is stable and the adhesive has done its job properly
In the cold press method you will see the lines in the finished product which is the adhesive showing as it was not melted and compressed into the grain of the Bamboo
The hot press method is also very green with formaldehyde emissions being 0.1-0.2mg/l  whereas with a cold press system it would be 0.4mg/l
On our strand woven bamboo we apply 11 coats of the German Treffert Lacquer