Taylors Flooring glues by Osmo.

Taylor’s Makes Flooring Install Easy with New Adhesive Sausage and Gun Applicator

Applying adhesive when installing wooden flooring can be a messy job, but thanks to Osmo UK, a more easily controllable solution is available in the UK. Adhesive specialists, Taylor’s has developed a new form for its top-selling adhesive, MS-Plus – the sausage ensures quick and accurate application. The MS-Plus adhesive is a solvent-free product that gives a reliable and consistent performance.

The all-new Taylor’s 600cc Sausages, available from Osmo UK, are the ideal solution for all installation projects. Where accurate application is necessary, Taylor’s sausage allows users to administer the adhesive solution using a bulk gun, giving them complete control.

“Taylor’s adhesive is a fantastic product to use across all interior wooden flooring installations. Advantages of the product is that the bonds made are permanent, it is waterproof, and has sound reducing qualities – eliminating the need for multiple products. Now that the product is available in ‘sausage’ form, the adhesive is even more flexible. Application of any adhesive is a messy job, so using a bulk gun is a great way to get around this. It means that contractors can apply the product far more precisely and quickly, and with more ease” explains Steve Grimwood, MD at Osmo UK.

Taylor’s 600cc Sausages are the ideal solution for all installation projects. The one part component 100% solids, cross linking, MS polymer-based adhesive is ideal for all types of wooden flooring, including wood block parquet, engineered wood plank, acrylic impregnated plank, bamboo and pre-finished and unfinished solid wood flooring.

Taylor’s range of adhesive products including the new 600cc sausages and bulk gun are available directly from Osmo UK. Taylor’s adhesive range is environmentally friendly products

For more information on Taylors adhesives please contact us at South Farm.

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Solid Timber Worktops

Staves:

The individual boards that make up the worktop. Stave width can vary, but we try and source timber giving individual stave widths of between 100mm to 240mm. Generally 4 or 5 stave widths for a standard 600 worktop. Being that every worktop is bespoke, we can however give you any stave width you want – dependant on the timber available at the time.

An example of a random stave beech top.

Joints:

Generally tongue and grooved joints, giving a joint that runs the full length of the timber. We can also biscuit joint, so no joints can be seen at the ends of the worktops.

Worktop joints.

Worktop Ends and Edges:

Our worktops ends will finish with the stave widths and joints clearly visible. We can fit end caps if requested.

End caps can be fitted as an extra.

Worktop edges can come square edge or rounded. We can produce shaped tops at an extra cost, but will need a template to go from.

Detail of rounded worktop edge – Ash top

Knots:

All our worktop timber is sourced very carefully, and the best timber is chosen for the job in hand, but please do expect a few knots (in fact we prefer there to be a few small ones). We can supply completely clean boards with no knots, but please do specify when ordering, your chosen preference.

 

Example of knots in one of our bespoke worktops

Useful Links:

Worktop Oils - http://www.osmouk.com/osmopolyx.cfm?chapter=29

Biscuit Jointing- http://www.howtohq.co.uk/how-to-improve-your-biscuit-joinery

If you have any questions then please do not hesitate to contact us at South Farm - 

http://www.paintsandinteriors.co.uk/?p=contact

Spraying & Hand-painting Kitchens

Despite the last two weeks being the coldest of the winter so far, we were busy, thermals on and heaters turned up, in the workshop painting some bespoke kitchen door and drawer fronts for a customer.

We often get asked to make up  tulip wood doors and drawers to go onto shop bought carcass units or as replacements for tired old ones, which we then hand finish in the workshop, to give the look of a hand-painted bespoke kitchen, without the price tag.

In this case the customer could not find a colour she liked, so we created a bespoke colour for her (scanned from the colour on our business card no less!), which we then mixed up in Eico Alterior Eggshell - an interior and exterior Eggshell which is incredibly hard wearing, flexible and durable.

The door and drawer fronts made of solid tulip wood for the rails and stiles, with a MR MDF panel (another option for the panel is a veneered Oak, or Ash MDF which shows the grain through the paint for a slightly different overall finish), for a traditional Shaker design.

A simple Shaker design was requested by the customer

Detail of Mortise and tenon joints

Two coats of a tinted i-can Grepp V Acrylic Alkyd primer undercoat were sprayed onto the fronts, sanded in between each coat with a medium grit sponge sanding pad. This high performance primer is similar to a Zinseer 123, and covers beautifully, giving the timber the best protection possible.

The workshop with the primed kitchen drying on racking.

A sprayed coat of the Eico 100% acrylic Alterior Eggshell in the bespoke colour was then applied, to which we added approx 10% to volume of paint Owatrol Floetrol, and a small amount of water. Floetrol is a paint conditioner for acrylic or latex based paints, which when added makes the paint behave more like an oil paint. It increases the open time, meaning less visible brush and spray patterns, helps with coverage (especially in colours with poor hiding power such as yellows and reds), and helps look after your spray equipment, with less blocked nozzles!

A single hand-painted finish coat on the backs of the doors and 2 hand painted coats on the fronts was then applied to give the desired finish (again sanded between each coat). 

By painting the units this way, you build up the base layers with 3 smooth sprayed coats, with the final hand painted coats giving a slight brushed finish.

The end result!

The end result is a bespoke hand finished door!

If you would like kitchen doors, drawers, end panels or any other item of furniture or joinery (such as windows, doors and worktops) hand finished, then please contact me at South Farm and i can discuss prices and availability.

Links & address book:

i can primers: http://www.raymunn.co.uk/online/shop/primers/ican/ican-grepp-v-750ml-detail

Eico Paints:http://eico.co.uk/

Floetrol:http://www.owatrol.com/index.php?langue=en&page=produits-floetrol

Stockists:

East of England - http://www.paintsandinteriors.co.uk/

Central London - http://www.raymunn.co.uk/

Osmo Timber Cladding

Picture Detail - Sawn Untreated Douglas Fir Cladding - 29/16 x 144mm

Fixed with Stainless steel screws.

Aside from the fantastic wood finishes, which include the fool proof Polyx Oils, UV protection Oils, Country colour etc, etc.... Osmo also have a huge range of timber cladding.

From their factories in Germany, their range of cladding is superbly machined, and is of the same high quality you would expect of any Osmo product.

Available in Pine, Douglas Fir, Spruce, Larch, and Cedar, it comes in a multitude of profiles (including bespoke profiles) and can be pre finished in any Osmo product.

Corner detail - Untreated Douglas Fir

Being so well machined, it slots together perfectly. This not only saves time, and therefore money when it comes to fitting, but the end result is clear to see.

For any more information on Osmo Cladding please contact us at South Farm.

t: 01986 788993

e: info@paintsandinteriors.co.uk

Skylt Ultramatt Invisible

Some time ago we extolled the virtues of Skylt Ultramatt Invisible, a commercial grade polyurethane for wooden floorboards, worktops and doors as well as concrete and stone.

Well, below is a picture of an Oak floor lovingly restored by Sam Layte of St Columb Interiors based in Norwich - http://saintcolumb.tumblr.com/

Skylt Ultramatt is a 2 part water-based product from Rigostep. It is easy to use, quick drying and unique. Once applied it gives the appearance of  an unfinished surface, but with commercial grade protection.

Paints & Interiors is one of only 2 stockists outside Holland, where you can get this unique product.

If you want any more information on Skylt Ultramatt, please do not hesitate to contact me at South Farm.

t: 01986 788993

e: info@paintsandinteriors.co.uk

New Kitchen Showroom

It is nearly finished. We are just waiting for some Osmo flooring Stands and then we are officially open.

All our kitchens are handmade to order. They are built with European birch ply carcasses (a superior grade to Far Eastern), ash drawer boxes at present, and either ash, tulip wood, or oak fronts.

They can come pre spray finished in any Farrow & Ball colour, or we can paint them here - you have over 30,000 colours to choose from!

For any enquiries on kitchens, dressers, worktops or flooring, please contact us at South Farm, or drop in.

Tel: 01986 788993 / info@paintsandinteriors.co.uk

The Invisible Wood Finish.

Product Review: Skylt UltraMatt

Whenever you seal wooden floors, worktops or joinery with clear oils, varnishes or finishes, you alter the end colour of the wood. It will darken, and generally it will yellow. You will lose that raw, natural, organic look of wood as soon as you seal it to protect it from everyday life; dirty footprints, water stains, spilt drinks, etc.

There are some products which yellow less than others, Osmo Polyx Oil (Satin Matt, Semi Matt and Matt) is a fantastic product i have used for nearly 10 years, and that has always been the least 'yellowing' i have found (at one time i only ever used Danish Oil, but that tended to turn oak floorboards virtually brown). The Matt Polyx has hardly any sheen, but still yellows the wood. There are ways with the Osmo range that you can avoid this; first coat with Polyx Oil White, followed by a top coat of normal Polyx. The white tint adds a tiny amount of colour which helps counter act the natural yellowing of the plain oil, and it is really effective. You can go steps further and use the white wood wax first followed by the standard Polyx, which slightly limes the wood - particularly good on oak flooring.

There is now a product on the market which protects the wood from all sorts of spills, dribbles, saliva (nice thought!), and all sorts of wear and tear and it is invisible. It does not change the appearance of the wood at all. In fact it does, but in the most minute way - and unless you have sealed the wood yourself you would not know. It very, very, very, slightly blurrs the definition in the grain. You have to look at the wood from about an inch away, which in truth you would not do. And lets face it, if you were caught on your hands and knees, with your nose virtually pressed against the floorboards, your friends would think you a little wierd, and probably never ask you round again (although they will be relieved that the floor finish was saliva proof!).

So just accept the fact that it is Invisible.

Have a look for yourself

 

One side of the oak board has had three coats of Skylt Ultramatt, the other side of the board has had nothing.

The answer is: the first photograph.

Skylt is an amazing product. It is essentially a water based polyurethane. But it has absolutely no sheen, or colour at all. It is a two part product with a small pot of hardener that you add to the bigger pot 1:20 (you get enough hardener to mix the whole pot). It comes in either 1 or 3 L pots and has a coverage of about 10-12m2/l with one coat, depending on porosity etc.

Application: Add the Skylt component B, with A, ratio 1:20. Mix well and leave for 10 minutes for the two to react. Apply to the wood with a fine natural bristle brush or short pile roller (it takes no special skill either, just work with a wet edge). It starts off slightly cloudy at first, but this disappears as it dries. Leave for a minimum of 5 hours before applying further coats. You can sand lightly with a sanding pad between coats. Apply 3 coats in total. After about 12 hrs after coating it is safe to walk on, and is fully cured after 7 days.

You need to be aware - The mixed product will not keep for more than 2-3 hrs once reacted, so only mix what you need.

Areas of use: Hardwood floors, Kitchen Worktops, Internal Doors, Internal Joinery - eg: staircases, furniture etc. It is hardwearing enough for commercial application (it says so on the website), so is an exceptionally hard wearing finish.

Useful Links:

Stockists:

London: Ray Munn: http://www.raymunn.co.uk/ 

Eastern England: Paints & Interiors: http://www.paintsandinteriors.co.uk/ 

Other useful info:

Polyx Oils - Osmo UK: http://www.osmouk.com/osmopolyx.cfm?chapter=29