Should you fill gaps between floorboards?

Filling gaps does stop draughts and prevents the build up of dust between the gaps. It also tightens the floor and helps prevent timber movement.

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Wood Floor Staining & Gap filling

Wood Floor Staining

Stains are used to alter the colour of wood. (eg darkening a pine floor). Unlike paint, stains enhance the wood grain rather than hide it. Wood floor staining and varnishing in two distinct stages is preferable to using a coloured varnish. You will maintain far greater control over the colour and enhance durability of the sealant. The gradual wearing away of the varnish or sealant will not affect the floor colour beneath. You may also choose to paint your floor or to apply a coloured wax (such as Blanchon lime wax) for a soft tinting effect through which you can see the wood grain. We recommend coloured wax for floors with dull, washed colours or to better match your home interior. You quickly lend some colour to your room and get a floor that looks completely different at an affordable price. As well as the traditional solvent and oil-based wood stains, we also use odour-free, water-based pigments stains. These offer a wide range of colours from traditional wood colours to contemporary pigmenting: eg white, red, blue or even pink!. Floor stains are applied by hand or roller and take at least eight hours to dry.

Gap-Filling

The even look of a gap-filled floor is pleasing to the eye but not always necessary. Filling gaps does stop draughts and prevents the build up of dust between the gaps. It also tightens the floor and helps prevent timber movement. We use traditional methods of gap filling depending on the width of the gap and the expected floor traffic: * Resin is mostly used on parquet and mosaic floors where there are lots of fine gaps. Fine dust from the floor is mixed with a resin and applied to the gaps with a filling knife.

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* Solid filling strips of reclaimed pine and other timbers are glued, forced into the gaps, and chiselled back before sanding flat. Email or phone us to arrange a free assessment of your wooden floor. We can also show you a range of coloured waxes and stains – to help you choose those that meet your needs.

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Do you have to staple insulation?

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Insulation Types

Wall insulation can come in different types. It can be blown in, polystyrene or fiberglass batts. Fiberglass batts are the most common. These batts can come faced or unfaced. Faced means with built in Kraft paper on one side that is used to form a vapor barrier. The paper should face the inside of the home. Many states require a vapor barrier in their building codes. A vapor barrier can also be put in as one big plastic sheet and stapled in place. In this case you would use unfaced batts because you are adding your own vapor barrier.

Stapling

When installing fiberglass insulation batts with the built in Kraft paper, you will want to staple the insulation in place so that it doesn't fall. The paper covers the insulation plus enough left over on each side to staple it onto wall studs. The built in overlap is made in a way that you can get a consistent barrier between the inside of the house and the wall cavities. However, sheet rock installers do not like this because it makes it harder for them to easily see where the studs are when they put up the walls. So the sheet rock installers prefer insulators staple the paper inside the cavity so that the stud is clearly visible. Some instructions will tell you to staple it inside also but it's up to you. As long as you don't compress the insulation you should be fine. If you are going to hire someone to put up your sheet rock then you should probably staple the paper to the inside of the cavity and not on the outside of the stud.