Every timber sands, drinks colour and wears differently. These are the floors we meet week in and week out on the Gold Coast, and what each one needs to come up properly.
Two floors of the same size can be completely different jobs. Spotted gum blunts abrasive and tears out if you rush it. Cypress pine is soft and resinous and punishes a heavy hand. Tasmanian oak drinks stain unevenly unless it is prepared for it. American oak turns orange under the wrong sealer.
Knowing which timber is under your feet is the start of every quote we write. If you are not sure what you have, send us a photo of a sanded corner or an offcut and we will tell you.
Each page below covers what that timber looks like sanded, how it behaves under the machine, which finishes suit it and the mistakes we see made on it.
One of the most common floors on the Gold Coast and one of the best to finish. Blackbutt sands to a pale honey gold, holds a coating beautifully, and looks entirely different depending on what you seal it with.
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The most dramatic hardwood floor in Queensland. Spotted gum swings from pale biscuit to deep chocolate board to board, and the whole job is about handling that variation instead of fighting it.
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The floor under half the older houses on the Gold Coast. Cypress pine is honey-toned, full of dark knots, and it looks completely different depending on whether you lean into that character or tone it down.
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Pale, even and endlessly adaptable. Tasmanian oak takes colour better than almost any other Australian floor timber, which makes it the one we reach for when a client wants a specific look rather than a specific timber.
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The wide-board floor in most new Gold Coast builds and high-end renovations. American white oak has the open grain that makes a limewash sing, and it behaves predictably under almost every finish we apply.
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Warmer and more characterful than its American cousin, and the timber most often specified for a natural oiled floor. European oak is where knots, colour variation and visible history are the point rather than a fault.
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Brushbox, ironbark, tallowwood, jarrah, turpentine and the mixed hardwood floors under most older Gold Coast homes. Dense, red-toned, extremely durable, and usually a lot better than they look under the old carpet.
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Baltic pine, hoop pine and radiata turn up in old cottages, Queenslanders and upstairs additions all over the Coast. They are soft, they mark, and with the right hand on the machine they come up beautifully.
Find out moreWe will tell you what it can become and what it will cost, with a free in-home estimate anywhere on the Gold Coast.
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Floors worth showing off - cut back, stained and finished by Gold Coast specialists since 2010.
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Mudgeeraba QLD 4213
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Servicing the Gold Coast, Logan fringe and Northern NSW to Ocean Shores. Free, no-obligation in-home estimates.