EcoGrit Blog

Gaps between floorboards can open and close as the timber takes up and loses moisture. Learn when to leave them, which gaps to fill during a sand and finish, and how to fill each one.

AquaSeal 2K PU is the finish we specify most often for commercial and wet-area residential timber. Here is the chemistry, the ATFA-aligned procedure, and how it handles Blackbutt, Spotted Gum, Jarrah and European Oak.

"Low VOC" on a label could mean 50 g/L or 250 g/L depending on which country wrote the test. The European approach has produced genuinely cleaner finishes, and here is why.

Blackbutt carries some of the heaviest tannin loads of any Australian flooring species. Skip stain-blocking primer and you will see pink, brown or yellow bleed lines in the first week. Here is how to prevent it.

Dense, oily, tannin-heavy and prone to sanding chatter. Spotted Gum earns its reputation as the hardest Australian hardwood to finish. Here is the working playbook.

European Oak and American White Oak are both beautiful, but they take stain so differently that identical products produce different floors. Here is what drives the difference.

On dense hardwoods like Jarrah and Ironbark, end-grain cells suck up 4 to 5 times more stain than face-grain. The result is visible darker stripes at every board end. Here is how to prevent it.