Which Cottenham floors are worth sanding
Interwar homes, about 200 in the village, can have good boards too. Houses built since the mid-1960s, about three quarters of Cottenham, more often have chipboard or engineered floors, and engineered boards can only be sanded if the top layer is thick enough, if at all. We lift a corner at the visit to see what you have. If the boards turn out to be patched with newer timber, a tinted oil can help blend the repairs.
Floor sanding in Cottenham, start to finish
Chris, our wooden floor specialist, secures loose boards, punches nails below the surface and sands the floor with a belt sander, finishing the margins with an edging sander. Gaps are filled using the floor's own dust mixed with Induro Morrells Mix & Fill, then a Mirka pass leaves the surface ready for oil.
We finish in Osmo Polyx oils, clear or tinted. On a Haddenham floor Chris used the Gold tint oil, which has flecks of 24-carat gold, and our floor sanding service page has more.
Cottenham at a glance
- 3 milesby road from our Landbeach base, about 6 minutesOSRM routing
- 15%of properties were built before 1919VOA Council Tax stock
- 6%date from 1919 to 1939VOA Council Tax stock
- 19%are terracedCensus 2021
- 66listed buildingsHistoric England
- 2,725householdsCensus 2021
How we approach floor sanding
For a Cottenham terrace with narrow rooms we plan the order so you can still get through the house, starting with the room furthest from the front door. Each floor is sanded in stages from coarse to fine, edged, gap-filled and smoothed with a Mirka sander. Thin coats of Osmo oil follow with drying time, and our decorators touch in marked skirtings. The full method, products and FAQs are on our floor sanding page.