Laminate, Engineered & Solid Timber Flooring Supplied and Installed For Your Home
Add warmth and value to your home with our range of supplied and installed timber flooring. Whether you are considering Laminate, Engineered or Solid Timber Flooring our flooring will give your home exceptional beauty for many years to come whilst increasing your property value.
At JBR Building Group we make your new flooring melbourne an easy process by providing a one stop shop service inducing measure and quote, product selection, design and installation all carried out personally by our qualified carpenter Jaryd.
We requested we can also add the final touches to your new flooring such as finishing quad, new skirting boards and sealing when required. Whether the project is residential or commercial we can provide the right advice for your new flooring.
For a great way to find out what your new timber flooring might cost, simply click here to use our ‘Floor Costing Tool’. It has helped many people to quickly understand the costs. Should you require any further assistance you can call us on 0431 372 502.
Professional & Affordable Hardwood Flooring Installations Melbourne
Hardwood flooring is a very popular choice for flooring for Melbourne homeowners for a number of reasons. Solid timber floors have a thicker surface when compared to engineered and laminate giving them a longer lifespan and less prone to wear. Even after many many years of use solid flooring can be sanded and sealed bringing it back to a brand new finish. It is common for homes in Melbourne that are several decades old to have original solid wood flooring still in use today. We have all heard the stories of people who have removed carpet to find a beautiful timber floor underneath waiting to be sanded and sealed into a stunning new floor.
Hardwood Flooring Types:
There are many different species of hardwood flooring such as the popular Spotted Gum, Blackbutt, Jarrah, Tasmanian Oak and Victorian Ash to name a few. Each one has a different density, strength, grade and moisture content. There is many considerations that need to be taken into account depending on your choice of flooring. For a successful project, ensuring there is floor stability, with minimal impact from the internal and external environment.
Hardwood timber flooring comes raw and will always require sealing after installation. Keep this in mind as once flooring installed and depending on the type of sealer applied it may take up to 4 days before being able to walk on the floor. An alternative is to use pre-finished engineered flooring as it can be walked upon straight after installation.
Installation:
Installing hardwood timber flooring requires allowance for expansion just like other types of flooring such as engineered or bamboo. For example an 80mm wide board can expand by as much as 0.25mm. Our hardwood flooring professionals can carefully plan your installation, ensuring the right amount of clearance is accounted for and preventing any impact on your home.
Professional & Affordable Engineered Flooring Installations Melbourne
Installation:
Engineered flooring needs adequate space around skirting to allow for expansion. This applies to both width and length of the floor. Your choice of flooring will determine the allowance as each of type and brand of engineered flooring has its own specifications and tolerance required for expansion. In longer floors such as hallways and large open living spaces expansion joints may be required to accommodate for movement, it is common to see these joints in doorways and hallways.
To have a neater job and final finish we generally remove skirting boards and cut the bottom of door jambs to allow the flooring to run underneath it. This speeds up the installation process and has much nicer finish. Installation of flooring without removing the skirting boards is possible however a finishing quad strip will be required around the edges of the skirting board to conceal the gap required for expansion.
Engineered floors offer a few different methods for installation and can be either glued to a subfloor, as floating floors with an underlay or even fixed as a structural floor depending on product specification and application.
Manufacturing:
Engineered flooring is manufactured with a base of bonded layers made from timber that provide strength and stability, on top of these bonded layers is decorative timber machined from your choice of flooring such as Blackbutt, Jarraah and Tassie Oak to name a few. This process give you a timber floor that is more affordable than solid hardwood whilst maintaining the appearance.
Engineered flooring is available in two different finishes, Pre-finished and Unfinished. Pre-finished flooring already has a coating applied in the factory that is finished out of the box which saves times and money on installation. Unfinished flooring is sanded and sealed after installation. Sanding and coating on site can be more desirable as it provides you with a coating of your choice giving you a more unique final appearance. On the other hand Pre-finished flooring is ready to walk on once installed while Unfinished will require a drying time of up to 4 days depending on your choice of sealer.
For a great way to find out what your new engineered flooring might cost, simply click here to use our ‘Floor Costing Tool’. It has helped many people to quickly understand the costs. Should you require any further assistance you can call us on 0431 372 502.
Professional & Affordable Bamboo Flooring Installations Melbourne
Bamboo flooring is usually made in China from bamboo stems that is aged for roughly 4 years. After the bamboo has grown it is harvested and the stems are trimmed into a number of lengths prior to final processing into strand woven and laminated flooring.
The manufacturing process of strand woven bamboo flooring differs to laminated bamboo flooring. Laminated flooring requires smaller pieces around 3cm wide to be machined into a rectangular shape suitable for floor boards, once machined it is then treated to prevent insect attacks and then dried in a kiln before board fabrication. The dried pieces are then glued in two different way to provide the desired style of product either horizontally or vertically.
Strand woven flooring is quite a different process as pieces are cut into even smaller strands and then put back together with an adhesive to form a complete sheet that is then cut into raw boards. Strand woven flooring is manufactured by two distinctive processes which are cold pressed or hot pressed. The cold press process uses heat to dry the glue before the fibers are pressed together and the final sheets are cut into boards. Hot press uses a combination to pressure and head to form the sheets before being cut into boards.
Each type creates a different finished product, with stand woven being a lot more harder that laminated due to being pressed together.
For a great way to find out what your new bamboo flooring might cost, simply click here to use our ‘Floor Costing Tool’. It has helped many people to quickly understand the costs. Should you require any further assistance you can call us on 0431 372 502.
Laminate, Engineered & Solid Timber Flooring Supplied and Installed For Your Home
Add warmth and value to your home with our range of supplied and installed timber flooring. Whether you are considering Laminate, Engineered or Solid Timber Flooring our flooring will give your home exceptional beauty for many years to come whilst increasing your property value.
At JBR Building Group we make your new flooring melbourne an easy process by providing a one stop shop service inducing measure and quote, product selection, design and installation all carried out personally by our qualified carpenter Jaryd.
We requested we can also add the final touches to your new flooring such as finishing quad, new skirting boards and sealing when required. Whether the project is residential or commercial we can provide the right advice for your new flooring.
For a great way to find out what your new timber flooring might cost, simply click here to use our ‘Floor Costing Tool’. It has helped many people to quickly understand the costs. Should you require any further assistance you can call us on 0431 372 502.
