30/05/2026
Early 19th century redwood pine floor — sanded and restored in Ulverston.
These boards are from the early 1800s. This room sits on the top floor of a three-storey Georgian building in Ulverston and would originally have been staff quarters, the kind of space that was functional, not decorative. The floor reflects that. Wide redwood pine boards, laid when the building was built, walked on for around 200 years.
By the time we got to it the surface was carrying decades of paint splashes, old finish, and ingrained grime. The kind of floor a lot of people would write off and carpet over.
We didn't. We sanded it back to bare wood and finished with an ultra matte lacquer system — low sheen, pale, clean. A finish that lets the age and character of the boards show rather than burying them under a glossy coat.
This is the 9th floor I've completed in this building over around 6 years. Every room has its own story. This one, given what it would have been used for, felt particularly worth getting right.
Original pine floorboards from this era are irreplaceable. The timber, slow-grown, dense redwood pine, simply isn't available new. Once it's gone under carpet long-term or replaced with something modern, that's it. Restoration is almost always the better option, practically and historically.
If you've got early or mid 19th century pine boards in a period property in Ulverston, Barrow, Kendal, or anywhere across South Lakeland and Cumbria — they're almost certainly worth assessing before any other decision is made.
📍 Ulverston, Cumbria
🔧 Period pine floor sanding and restoration, Georgian and early Victorian softwood boards
