Oak plank · Kingston

Black-brown oak upstairs, bathroom included

For Sabita in Kingston, a very dark black-brown oak plank glued down across the upstairs landing, bedrooms and bathroom, and the old pine floors sanded.

By Altin
A bedroom with white doors and skirting over a very dark brown oak plank floor
Fitted by AK Hardwood · A bedroom, finished
Project
SabitaKingston
Floor
Oak plankBlack-brown
Rooms
UpstairsLanding, bedrooms, bathroom
Fixing
Glued down
Also
Old pine sandedFloors and stairs
An upstairs hallway with dark oak planks running lengthways past door frames
The landing · Before the skirting
The job

One dark floor across the top of the house.

The plank is very dark, with lighter boards and knots showing through. It runs the length of the landing and on into each room, the bathroom included.

At the door frames the architraves were undercut so the boards slide underneath, rather than being cut round.

How it's done

The gap at the walls.

A laid dark oak floor with a vacuum and a short piece of skirting lying on it
The last stage

A skirting offcut as the gauge

Before the skirting goes on, a short piece of it is kept on the floor to check the gap at the walls. The gap has to be no wider than the skirting can cover.

A bathroom with a grey roll-top bath, WC and shower enclosure on a dark oak plank floor
The bathroom

Under the bath

The same plank runs under the roll-top bath and up to the shower enclosure.

Upstairs

Room by room.

A room under a sloping ceiling with the dark plank laid

Under the slope of the roof.

Dark oak planks laid across a bathroom before the bath went back

The bathroom, before the bath went back.

A bedroom floor in dark planks catching the sun

A bedroom, just cleaned.

A bedroom with white wardrobe doors and skirting over the dark oak floor

A bedroom, finished.

A front bedroom with a bay window and old pine floorboards sanded and finished
The pine · Sanded and finished
Also in the house

The old pine, sanded.

Elsewhere in the house the original pine floorboards stayed. The floors and the pine stairs were sanded and refinished.

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