A long long time ago I found myself with a big gap in my parquet flooring due to some building works…yeah, the extension that I’m still having to do jobs on five years later. Anyway, I just came across some old photos of the work and realised I never did a blog post about it.
This job was quite an epic.
I didn’t have a bunch of oak parquet floor blocks lying around in my shed so I had to buy some. Fortunately some dude down in deepest darkest Cheshire had lifted a bunch of the up from a school floor and was selling them on eBay. Can’t remember what I bought them for but it wasn’t too bad.
Then I had to clean them all up and remove the old bitumen from the bottom of them and get ready for laying them. Once I’d created a relatively flat surface to lay them on I put down a layer of my own fresh bitumen and got cracking.
It was actually pretty good fun. Once I’d got the hang of the pattern and the angles they all went down pretty easily. You can see from the picture above that they weren’t exactly perfect joins but they were close enough and having rubbed in some oak sawdust from cutting them to shape and then varnishing them all it looked pretty bob on.
