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Is A Hardwood Timber Durable Enough For My Busy Lifestyle?

Absolutely!! Hardwood Timber floors are one of the most durable floor coverings you can purchase from timber suppliers of the UK . While carpet, vinyl, and laminates will show wear and tear and have to be replaced after only a few years, hardwood floors will last a century or more. Hardwood timber supplied by our hardwood timber merchants in the UK are more durable and scratch resistant than ever before. Many timber merchants use seven or more coats of polyurethane and add Aluminum Oxide to the finish to make their floors even harder and more scratch resistant. This is not to say hardwood floors can´t be scratched, but unlike many other products hardwood timber can be repaired or refinished to bring back the original look and feel for the next generation. Hardwood floors also have one additional benefit over any other floor covering: they can change with the times. Like many things in life, styles change with time. Our hairstyles, clothes, and even the styles and c...

Which to Choose, Hardwood Floors or Laminate Floors?

Hardwood has been a well-liked flooring option for several generations. Recently there has been a substitute for the customary hardwood floor that is becoming more and more popular. Laminate Floors look like natural hardwood. While both hardwood floors and laminate floors are very similar in look, there are advantages and disadvantages to each. So which one should you choose? To make a wise choice, it’s significant to know the facts, benefits, and cons of each. This blog will help you get a better understanding of the real differences between hardwood and laminate floors. While laminate floors come incredibly close to copy the look of hardwood, nothing comes more intimate than the real thing. These laminate floors look as realistic as ever, but it’s not feasible to copy the real thing 100%. With a laminate floor, you will have repeating patterns at some point since it is just a picture. Laminate floors will typically give you more of an unfilled sound when you walk on it ...

Hardwood & Softwood Timber Profiles - Cover Moulds!!!

Timber cover moulds are available in a variety of patterns and a choice of hardwood and softwood timbers. Wooden cover moulds are used to cover gaps within internal corners such as the union between a floor and skirting or wall and ceiling. They are often used to cover expansion gaps or to cover rough joins. Timber merchants of Illingworth Ingham Ltd offers a wide range of timber cover moulds, in premier hardwood and softwood timbers. Available in a variety of lengths and different profiles to suit all interiors and exteriors. All of our cover moulds are bulk machined to order. You can choose from one of our existing profile designs, or you can send us your own design which we can make for you. Experts in Timber Profiles Our timber experts also offer Architrave, Cornice, Dado, Drips and Beads, Feature Cladding/T&G, Furniture Mouldings, Hand & Base Rails, Kitchen Craft, Nosing And Edging, Panel Mouldings, Picture Frames, Picture Rails, Skirting and Window S...

The Emergence of Timber Mouldings

From early years to those more modern, timber mouldings have graced the most modish and fashionable of decorating walls, windows, doors, and interiors. Decorative timber mouldings such as cornices, coving and skirtings have stayed as an ever admired concluding detail; tremendously versatile and sturdy, enhancing the aesthetics of any home and giving a level of detail, which emphasizes on the class of a room. Wooden skirting and timber mouldings have a huge series of uses, many of which came into existence during the Victorian epoch. Timber skirting boards are the only existing feature of three interior timber mouldings objects discovered in the Victorian homes; the others being picture and dado railings. In the beginning, timber moulding was a practical piece, used for three main purposes: 1.      To conceal the untidy base edge of plastered walls, which was much less accurate than our smooth forms 2.      To protect the p...