Solid timber strip floorboards are designed to be installed over joists, battens, structural plywood, concrete, particleboard flooring, and other solid structural subfloors. Providing it has been installed and maintained correctly, a solid strip timber floor can last a lifetime.
It’s solid timber!
Because it’s made of solid timber, each floorboard will be unique in colour and feature. A solid timber floor supports biophilic design outcomes. The raw finish timber flooring allows you to add different finishes such as stains, oils, solvents and water-base finishes to suit your design preferences. Should you choose to remove timber flooring, it can be repurposed or safely recycled.
It’s a structural product.
Customers often select solid strip flooring when they’re matching into an existing floor, or they would like to install their floor over joists. Some customers like the springiness of a floor installed over joists rather than directly over a flat substrate like structural sheet flooring or concrete.
Can be sanded and recoated multiple times.
It can be sanded and recoated multiple times to give your solid timber floor a new look. Your timber floor will have a long service life and can be revitalised by completing a recoat during this.
Easy Maintenance
Cleaning and maintaining sold timber floors is incredibly easy. Use a vacuum or soft bristle brush to remove dirt and debris. For stains and spills, simple use cleaning products that are approved for timber floors. If you need furniture pads to protect your floor, we offer these in our showroom.
Please note, all species available are Australian.
Solid Timber Strip Flooring is available in the following sizes:
(This will be dependent on the mill or supplier)
Like most solid timber floors, solid strip flooring comes unfinished and will be sanded, polished and coated on site after installation. This gives the customer the biggest choice of finishes.
This grade is characterised by a clear, consistent appearance with minimal occurrences of natural features such as knots and gum veins.
This option is usually selected by those who are looking for a relatively uniform look with minimal colour variation.
This grade is the best of both worlds. It contains more natural features than the Select grade such as gum veins and knots but is still quite uniform in colour and grain.
This grade has more character than the Select grade. It features more knots, gum veins, borer holes and a larger range of colour variations compared to the higher grades.
It is a more affordable flooring option and a popular choice for those who appreciate the natural beauty of timber.
Solid timber floors are essentially made up as slabs of real wood that are treated and sealed with a protective coat. They are exceptionally sturdy and long-lasting.
Depending on how aggressively the floor sander sands the floor, you could expect 3 or 4 sand and recoats.
One thing that has to be remembered is most flooring does not have a universal look. Most species will look different from board to board. If you don’t like a feature, there is a select grade option. The colour of the boards will change depending on what coat you apply. Remember, timber floors are a natural product and so they’ll be similar to each other but may vary slightly from time to time.
Timber flooring is only available in random lengths.
Most supplier’s will only recommend to secret flooring fix up to an 85mm wide board. You need to check with the flooring supplier to see what recommendations they have for their product.
Generally, expansion joints are required in a floor that has a 6 m span or greater.
Barwon Timber can supply and install your timber floor. We can coordinate the delivery, installation and finish of your floor. Speak to our Showroom team to learn more about our flooring installation service.