Maples And Birch

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DISTRESSED WOOD FLOORS

Brand new wooden flooring is a wonderful choice but sometimes what you need is a style more suited to a rustic or older room. Distressed engineered wooden flooring from Maples and Birch has been deliberately pre-aged to have a slightly worn appearance.  This often adds real character to an area and ensures a true continuity of design. Quality […]

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Grey to Brown

Moments of appearance deepen with a hint of urban sophistication when dark brown is accompanied by a distinctive grey wash.  It’s as if each night was made for entertaining in casual elegance — a visual invitation to reverie Turn the dial down a notch and watch the mesmerising glow of mild brown yellows of gold […]

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How do I install my wood floor?

Having purchased their flooring elsewhere people often ask our advisers how they should install their wood floor, instead of referring people to our Q&A’s page or to read the instruction we try and oblige as we know that trying to find a simple answer online is hard or from the store where the wood floor […]

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Can I install real wood floor in my bathroom?

Through the years the question if real wood flooring could be used in wet areas like a bathroom, the professional answer has been a resolute no due to the nature of real wood and in some retail sectors selling Bamboo the answer has been a yes to close a sale. Well, we can confidently shout […]

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How to choose wood floor pt2:

Last month we wrote about how the difference between solid and engineered wood floors, so we follow that with a few pointers regards the final finish? There are a variety of pre-finishes that you select from when purchasing your real wood floor soto give you a simple guide we have made a note of the […]

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How do choose a wood floor?

A number of times we get asked how do I choose a floor? Now to many this may sound like a stupid question but in reality it’s a good question and it needs to be answered by good information which is clear and concise. With so many retailers and websites offering huge discounts on cheaply […]

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What is 3 strip flooring?

We get asked many times, what is 3 strip flooring? 3 strip flooring is traditionally of an engineered structure where the top layer (often referred as veneer) of 3-5mm thickness of different sized lengths of wood in equal-sized widths applied across the width of a plank. Ecologically this type style/design and structure is proving sound […]

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How to measure your floor?

People are often confused as to how a room should be measured for installation of realwood flooring, so please use this easy to follow guide on how to measure a room. Theseinstructions are supplied as a general guide to help you. To eliminate doubt on room floor measurements just sketch the room and write down […]

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Maples and Birch are a trading division of Kirklees Group companies, 181 to 183 Summer Road Erdington, Birmingham, B23 6DX
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