Services
Four jobs, four numbers
01
Rescue & refinish — $4.40 / sq ft
The full dustless cut with hand edging and three fresh coats. Most floors, even the ones hiding under lino since the coronation, are done inside five working days.
02
New lays — from $7.90 / sq ft
Solid and engineered oak, ash and cherry, nailed or glued. Boards acclimate on site until the meter is satisfied — the meter is the only schedule we answer to.
03
Stairs — $72 / step
Sanded back to matching timber, or re-treaded in 40 mm oak at $195 the step when the old pine has finally conceded. Nosings, risers, the lot.
04
Repairs & matching — from $18 / board
The burn by the fireplace, the patch from the removed chimney breast, the squeak that has outlived three sofas. Reclaimed stock, matched and woven in flat.
What we do
Where Emberline earns the name
Rescue jobs
Adhesives from the fifties react to heat and come up like toffee; varnish that has ambered past recognition gets cut back to timber that was milled before the wireless. If a floor can be saved, saving it is nearly always the cheaper half too.
New floors from the crate
When there is nothing to save, we lay new: engineered with an honest four-millimetre wear layer, or solid where the subfloor earns it. Acclimated, metered, secret-nailed — and finished in the sheen you actually live with, not the one that photographs best.
The finishing room
Colour is mixed on your own offcuts and rubbed down beside the window it will live in. You sign the sample board before a drop of it touches the floor — the board stays with the job file so the batch is repeatable in ten years.
Word of mouth
The Weald talks back
Ninety years of boot marks, two coats of golf-club varnish and a felt-pen racetrack drawn by somebody's children in 1982. Emberline sanded the lot off in four days. The grain they uncovered made the effort of the phone call look absurd.
They matched a 1930s border around our fireplace using boards from a barn they would not name. I asked twice. The match is so good my father, who laid the original floor as an apprentice, approved it and he has not approved anything since 1998.
Three firms told us to rip out the hall floor and start again. Emberline refinished it in a week for a fifth of the cheapest replacement quote and left the house cleaner than they found it. I checked the tops of the doors. Nothing.
Before you call
Straight answers, Weald edition
What the phone gets asked every week. If your question is rarer, the shop line at the bottom of the page likes a challenge.
Can you really finish by Friday?
If the measure happens Monday, usually yes — sanding takes two to three days and each coat needs a day. Floors with repairs, stairs or two-part finishes take longer, and the quote says so before you sign.
What comes up, the lino or the floor?
The lino, the adhesive, the underlay and occasionally a layer of newspaper somebody thought was a good idea in 1961. The floor stays. Under half a century of the Weald's renovations there is very often a good floor waiting.
How dustless, honestly?
HEPA extraction on every machine and sealed doorways under negative air. You will find less dust after one of our weeks than after one weekend of a normal renovation. We wipe the skirting on the last day as a point of principle.
Do you move the furniture?
We carry what two people can carry safely; pianos, aquariums and anything your insurer would blink at are yours to shift or to arrange with a remover. We say exactly what is left at the end of the measure, on the quote.
Engineered or solid for a kitchen?
Engineered, four-millimetre wear layer minimum, glued down. It shrugs at spill events that would cup a solid board, and the wear layer carries two full refinishes — this kitchen floor will outlast two more sets of cabinets.
Show us what you are living on
Photographs help but are not required — the measure is free and the quote is fixed. Tell us the worst thing about the floor; we have a story that beats it. talk@emberline.example