07/09/2026
🏫 Now THIS was a flooring job…
This was a major flooring refurbishment in a Victorian school built around 1875. Involving lifting the existing flooring, extensive preparation and installing new, hard-wearing flooring throughout large areas of the building.
And then we discovered what was underneath… 😭
Original Victorian parquet flooring.
We’re not going to lie, that one hurt. It was absolutely heartbreaking taking it out. Floors like that have survived generations of schoolchildren and there’s something very special about seeing the original craftsmanship still sitting underneath.
Sadly, in a busy working school, practicality, safety and suitability have to come first – but we definitely mourned that parquet as it came up.
This was a big project, with a huge amount of preparation and flooring to get through, all completed within the timescales required so the school could be ready for pupils returning.
Jobs like this are a great reminder of the scale of commercial work we’ve tackled over the years – not just the finished floor you see at the end, but everything that goes into getting there. 💪
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