D Smith Flooring, Case studies of types of work we undertake

Mr & Mrs Hammond, Canton, Cardiff

This project was a full house rennovation, phased over a couple of years.

The Hammonds originally contacted us whilst in the viewing process of purchasing the property, the previous owner was a keen DIYer and much of the work poorly done and in some cases quite dangerous.

Luckily the clients were able to see beyond this and had some strong deisgn ideas plus the patients to see it through.

Stairs Before

The previous home owner was a keen DIYer. The carpet wasn't installed correctly. Nail heads were visible through the carpet and there was no gripper or underlay

Stairs after

Sisal Mini Boucle installed on the stairs.

Landing Before

As with the stairs, the landing had poorly fitted carpet and the metal strip across the top step was a trip hazard

Landing After

Sisal Mini Boucle on the landing.

Stair Rods Premier Trim Satin Nickel

Half Landing-Sisal-Premier Trim

Cormar Stainfree

The timber sub floor was over laid with 6mm plywood and cloud 9 10mm underlay. Stair Rods Premier Trim in Satin Nickel

Damaged Tread

The existing stair tread was damaged

Repaired Stair tread

A new piece of timber was cut and shaped to size, then glued and screwed in place

Sisal Bengal Singh

A successful repair to the tread and carpet is seamlessly installed

Before the install

Sisal Bengall Singh on Stairs

Fibre Flooring Sisal Bengal Singh installed

Repairs to Stairs

We don't just install floor coverings, we also undertake remedial repairs prior to istallation.

Mr Medd, Bedminster,Bristol

This job was a tricky install, uneven sub foors, damaged treads and no parallel walls

The floor had been screeded by the previous owner, not to a very good standard. It was also a mixed subfloor of timber and screed. So the best product was a flexible levelling compound, which a suitable for timber and concrete

Levelling of uneven sub floor

The floor was scraped and buffed before being primed, then a flexible self levelling compound was applied

New screed with blind gripper

The levelling compound was allowed to dry over night

Dimensionally stable underlay

Durafit 650 underlay was cut roughly to size and adhered using Laybond L250 tackifier

Sisal cut roughly to size

The carpet was cut roughly to size before being permanently bonded to the underlay using F Ball F3 adhesive

Completed flooring

The flooring was left over night whilst the adhesive set. The following morning the carpet was cut-in the edges were tucked between the skirting and gripper

SP101 ply & Ardex feather finish

Hansons SP101 5.5mm plywood with Ardex feather finish copound

Primed Concrete

Acrylic primer drying bfore latex smoothing compound was applied

Waiting for the primer to dry

Patiently waiting for the primer to dry before the latex smoothing compound could be applied

Feathered joints

More feather finish between latex and ply

Feathering Compound

Ardex Feather finsh compound was used where the smoothing compound met the plywood

The colour flooring company vinyl

completed vinyl flooring

colour flooring company

completed vinyl flooring

colour flooring company

completed vinyl flooring

Mr & Mrs Barry, Long Ashton, Bristol

I Was contacted by Mrs Barry, they were nearing the end of their kitchen extesion and had been given our details by The Colour Flooring Company to install the vinyl.

The extension had wayrock floorboards and some existing concrete from the original part of the house.

We used Hanson SP101 5.5mm ply over the new chipboard used a premiuim latex product on the concrete as the builder had tried to latex themselves.

A lot of floorboards to refix

As per usual when major works take place floor boards are lifted. by other trades and quite often not re fixed

Services For an kitchen islan

Once the floorboards were carefully screwed back down

Karndean Knight tile York Stone

Karndean knight tile with 3mm grouting strip

Wall to wall install

We were able to get the flooring installed before the kitchen

Completed Karndean

Nice clean lines now tie the dining room and kitchen together

Mr & Mrs Clive, Cotham, Bristol

Mrs Clive originally contacted us we'd worked together with her kitchen fitter at a friend of hers in the area. We discussed the many options available from the Karndean range and knight tile York stone range best suited the style of kitchen they were having made.

Originally two seperate rooms the aim as to unify the space to create a large kichen / diner,

once the floorboards were refixed alyer of 9mm ply was installed and then a coat of feather finishing compound over the joints and nail heads.

The following day we returned to begin the install of the vinyl tiles, as the tiles are rectangular they have been set out with a hal tile offset along the length of the room.