Seal A Floor

With regard to James Redwood post, please note he never followed my instructions regarding work to be done. Timber flooring needs to be inside the house for two weeks before installation. This ead not done. Also, there was stuff all around the house which got in the road and had to be moved. Other contractors were also walking in and out throughout the duration of this job. I found the owner completely ignorant as to the process involved. Not a ideal situation to work in. Regards, Henry
Jul 29th, 2019

Extremely lucky to get two stars. Henry does a great job floor sanding, concrete grinding and sealing. I would recommend him for this any day, though if you are the site manager you will have to turn a huge blind eye because he does does not use adequate PPE. However we also got him to lay $30,000 worth of Hurford's engineered wooden flooring, because Henry recommended it and he boasts of over thirty years laying tongue and groove floors. This was a huge mistake. The flooring product is beautiful and works well, it was Henry's inexperience laying it, and his disregard of the laying instructions (barely two pages), which was the problem. He did not leave adequate spacing for floor expansion, so we ended up with buckles in the floor over 50mm high. We managed to fix this after getting advice from a Hurford's recommended layer. However there are things we can't fix without ripping the lot up. He has not put down the underlay correctly or done any levelling. As a result we have dips and soft areas in around 10% of the floor. His idea of ripping a panel (cutting it lengthways) was using a crosscut saw while he knelt on it on the edge of a wooden seat. Needless to say there wasn't a straight line on any of the edging. The stair panels has to be entirely pulled up and re-done because there were no square edges at all, and he had butted the tread up to the riser, rather than the other way around. Luckily he had put such an inadequate amount of glue on the panels they came up quite easily. I still have a bitter taste in my mouth months later, and will have a permanent reminder every time I step in a dip or see where he's left a gap between the ends of two panels. Beware.
Apr 12th, 2019