Herringbone · Coir mat · Weybridge

A dark herringbone hall in Weybridge

For Simon M in Weybridge, the old stone tiles came up and the hall was levelled, sealed and laid in engineered walnut in herringbone, with a coir mat framed in at the front doors.

By Altin
What went underneath →The thresholds
An entrance hall laid in dark brown herringbone running to a coir mat at dark double front doors
Fitted by AK Hardwood · The entrance hall
Project
Simon MWeybridge
Room
Entrance hallAnd corridor
Floor
HerringboneEngineered walnut
Base
Stopgap 1200 ProStopgap F77 DPM
Fixing
Fully bondedBona R848
A corridor laid in dark herringbone running between white walls and skirting to two wooden internal doors
The corridor · Towards the internal doors
The job

Tiles out, wood in.

The hall was laid in stone tiles. We took them up, levelled the floor and sealed the concrete before the walnut went down.

At the front doors the floor is framed round a natural coir mat, and new skirting was made to match the existing. The herringbone runs from the doors along the corridor to the internal doors.

What went underneath

Levelled, sealed, bonded.

01 · Levelled

With the tiles gone, the concrete was levelled with self-levelling compound (SLC): Stopgap 1200 Pro, a cement-based compound poured over the subfloor that sets into a smooth, flat base.

02 · Sealed

The concrete was then sealed with a damp-proof membrane (DPM), Stopgap F77, a liquid coating that stops moisture coming up into the wood and the adhesive.

03 · Bonded

The herringbone was fully bonded with Bona R848, a hard-elastic adhesive that holds the floor firmly while allowing for the wood's natural movement.

The details

The mat, the doors, the edges.

The herringbone cut straight against a frame round a coir mat at dark double front doors
At the front doors

A framed mat

The coir mat sits in a frame at the front doors, and the herringbone is cut straight against it.

The walnut running cleanly under an undercut door architrave beside a radiator
At a door frame

Undercut architrave

The architrave was undercut so the floor runs cleanly beneath it.

White skirting sitting on top of the walnut herringbone along a wall
Along the walls

Skirting over the gap

The new skirting sits on top of the floor and covers the expansion gap left round the edge.

Two internal doors shut on the new walnut floor, with pieces of cardboard under them
Cardboard under the doors · Holding the thresholds while the adhesive sets
How it's done

Thresholds you can't see.

At the three internal doors, Altin fitted each threshold to sit right under the door, so that with the door shut it can't be seen from either side.

The thresholds are glued down, with no pins, nails or screws. To hold each one while the adhesive dries, a piece of cardboard cut from the flooring boxes goes between the threshold and the door, and the door is shut on it. The door presses the threshold down. After about an hour the door can be opened, and the threshold stays put, with no nail or screw marks.

Finished

Along the hall.

Top-down close view of the walnut herringbone blocks

The walnut up close.

The herringbone hall looking to the front doors

Towards the front doors.

The herringbone at the mat beside a white vertical radiator

By the radiator at the front door.

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