Renovation of oak flooring. Barbès, Paris.
Project: Restoration and renovation of 46m2 of existing traditional oak parquet.
Brief: To structurally restore the herring bone parquet of the main salon and the parallel parquet of the entry, corridor and two bedrooms. To sand and renovate the flooring and apply finishes.
Response: The parquet had shrunk and shifted during its 100 year life. Some areas were no longer fully supported by the floor lathes beneath the parquet. These areas were removed and re-laid with additional support. Some of the bedroom parquet and all of the corridor parquet had been significantly damaged and poorly re-laid after the installation of electrical conduits beneath these floors. Salvageable parquet boards were taken from the corridor to restore the bedroom floors. All of the supporting lathes in the entry and the corridor needed to be re-seated on new plaster plinths, properly incorporating the conduits; this was then followed by an entirely new parquet floor being fitted. All other minor repairs to the existing parquet were done, all joints scrapped and cleaned. All floors were sanded to a finish, and then protected with multiple coats of floor varnish.
