Tuesday 9 December 2014

Queensland Spotted Gum Hardwood Floor, Poly Gloss Finsih

I wish I was writing this post under different circumstances. We must have done something to insult the universe because we are being seriously punished at the moment. I will write a longer post next regarding this but it is with utter dismay and with the heaviest of hearts that I say that our stunning Spotted Gum flooring has been destroyed. It has all happened in the last 2 days and we are still in the process of going through it all but a brand new, yet defective dishwasher has slowly leaked water under our flooring for the past 2 weeks (unbeknownst to us). It has completely destroyed the floor, which will all need to be ripped up. It flooded through 2 rooms into the study and saturated the carpet there. Fischer and Paykel had their head guy come out and they found a broken pipe inside. We are completely devastated and its going to be a long journey to get back to where we are now. Our painter just finished filling and painting the skirting boards last week and we were finally ready to set all our furniture out. Instead we will soon need to begin packing again. 

Here is the flooring prior to this week (we only had 1 week of them). It turned out better than we had imagined and we could not have been happier with the final result. It was stunning.

Harwood timber flooring - QLD Spotted Gum 80 x 14mm select/standard mix
We deleted flooring in our Carlisle contract (to entry, hall, meals, kitchen and lounge) and then had our own company install the floors.

Flooring Timeline
  • 31st October - Handover - got keys
  • 3rd November - Flooring laid - took 1 week to lay
  • We moved into the house (partly) on 7th November - floors were not sanded or polished
  • Flooring then sat to allow them to acclimatise to the temperature and ensure minimal movement (as they came from Queensland) - nearly 2 weeks
  • 19th November - we moved out and floors were sanded and polished. After polishing we couldn't move back for an extra 3 days to allow time for it to dry and set (also highly toxic)
  • We moved back into the house on the 24th November
  • (See now why I haven't had many posts!!!)
  • We have been in the house just over 2 weeks....
Flooring Process
  • Concrete scraped and cleaned
  • Protective plastic laid
  • 12mm layer of ply - screwed to the slab (what appeared to be 1000 screws!)
  • QLD Spotted Gum timber glued and secret nailed
  • Sanded and polished with 3 coats of solvent poly gloss finish
Protective Plastic Goes Down
 
Ply is Laid
 
 
 
Timber Gets Delivered!! It was soooo exciting seeing the timber. It gave us a good idea of the colour and what the end result would look like (this photo is in the garage under fluorescent lights).We were so excited by the colour variation and the feature to the timber. Timber really is an absolutely beautiful product.
 
More Natural Light
 
Here we Go!!! Goose bumps when we saw the first parts down!
 
The Next Night
So much completed in a day! These photos are under light at night time
 
While the floorers laid the floors during the night. I went back to the house at night and painted all the skirting boards! Enamel paint fumes in a garage send you a little crazy after a while!!
*Because our flooring was laid after hand-over and did not want quad on the floor under any circumstances, we had Carlisle leave the skirting boards off to all of the ground floor. They left us all the skirting boards in the packets and the paint to paint them. It was a bit painful at the time to try and get them done but the end result was worth it all. To avoid quad around the kitchen the floorer used caulking. Its a timber matched silicone that fills in the small gap needed to allow for movement.
 
Finished laying in the kitchen and lounge
*This is not yet sanded or polished
 
Close Up
It has those beautiful browns, reds, and ash colours
 
More Photos - not yet sanded or polished
 
Variation of Colour is Amazing!!
 
 
 
HERE IT IS - QLD SPOTTED GUM WITH POLY GLOSS: FINISHED!!!
Looking down the hall
 
So happy with the colour match of the timber staircase; Walnut
 
 
Entry to Study and Theatre carpets - Cat3 Takarra Ridge
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

 
 
 
 
 

7 comments:

  1. Wow your flooring is beautiful! Hope things will work out soon!

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  2. Hi, just wondering if you could give me details on the product you used around your kitchen in place of skirting to fill the gap between the flooring and your kitchen? I am about to go through this myself and your way sounds fantastic! Also, I am so sorry about your faulty dishwasher - my heart broke for you reading that. I hope its all sorted soon and you have your lovely flooring re-installed. Hugs to you x

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  5. Hi, I have been reading your blog for a while and thanks for sharing your building journey. I feel so sorry for you when I read your beautiful floor got damaged by the faulty dishwasher. It really shouldn't be this way. hugs! Hope it has been fixed by now.

    We just signed up with Carlisle Homes and think to install the timber floor after handover like what you did. We really don't like the quads around skirting boards and kitchen as well. However, our broker said we will have issues with getting the occupancy permit and therefore will have issues with getting our home loan approved. Just wondering how you solved this problem. Hope you can give us some lights on this. Many thanks.

    Sorry! Something not right with my account and I ended up multiple comments. I don't know how to delete it. first time to use comment. :(

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