Parquet Floor DIY

This blog is to show the process that I went through to get the beautiful reclaimed beech parquet floors I currently have in my home.... It involved a lot of trial and error and I hope that by writing this blog others will be helped in choosing the methods needed to deal with their parquet and the inevitable bitumen (which gets everywhere)....

Having moved into a new apartment in Cambridge, England two years ago, I found myself a year later in 2010 still with concrete floors everywhere except the bathroom and the Kitchen.

After looking at every possible flooring imaginable one year ago I decided to buy reclaimed beech parquet flooring from Ebay and to then lay and sand and varnish it all by myself.

I am a single Mum of a toddler who was two then and is now almost four, not perhaps the ideal start for what turned out to be a rather ongoing job. But hey, if I can do it, you can as well!

I'm into reclaimed and recycled goods so this made sense.

I followed every piece of parquet being sold on the lead up to my bid in November 2010 and for a mere £90 I managed to buy 40 m 2 of 6cm x 20cm x 2cm solid reclaimed beech parquet blocks from a teacher who had saved it from the school he was working at. My kind friend helped me pick it up in his estate car....