There are many Granwood floors around the world that are in sports centres, offices, schools and many other places. Granwood flooring is a mixture of wood fibres put together in a block tile rectangle. The Granwood blocks are then laid down onto a hard flat surface like tiling a floor. When the Granwood tiles have been installed, it is then time to sand the granwood sports floor to make it completely level and smooth. The Granwood floors then needs to be lacquered with 3 coats of granguard to protect and conserve the floor. Granwood floors is a very hard and durable floor surface. This is good as it will last a long time with the correct maintenance in place.

Having Granwood sports floors installed on your sports hall would be a good choice as it is very hard sports surface that will handle the constant high traffic that sports flooring receive. Granwood is also laid on top of sprung wooden flooring giving it a bit of flex in the sports floor. When a Granwood sports floor is installed on top of wood sports flooring it is called a Gransprung sports floor. Granwood and Gransprung sports floors is an excellent choice for sports flooring as it is low maintenance due to the very hard wearing and high gloss lacquer that is applied to finish the floor.

When Granwood floors gets refurbished and sanded it creates lots of very fine dust that gets in the air. To prevent the fine dust making a mess everywhere, there are high powered vacuums that will extract all of the dust. Sanding and refurbishing Granwood sports flooring it is possible to over sand the floor by taking too much off the top of the Granwood block. The blocks will begin to crumble in the middle and go a darker yellow colour when over sanded. When Granwood sports floors has been over sanded, it is normally time for a new sports floor to be installed. Sometimes it is not necessary to completely sand the floor if it's not too badly damaged as it can just be lightly buffed and cleaned followed by two coats of Granwax granguard lacquer. Before the Granwood sports floor is resealed it should have any of the court markings repaired and then the granguard lacquer applied over the top to protect the court markings.

Granwood flooring needs to be maintained properly if it is to last a long time. In order to maintain a Granwood floor it is important to keep the floor as clean as possible, especially keeping any grit or small grains of dirt off the floor. Grit is the worst thing for a Granwood floors lacquer as it will wear and scratch the floors. It is also important to get the Granwood floors resealed regularly as to protect the floor and prevent the need for sanding it as much. The more the Granwood blocks get sanded then the less time the floor will last as the blocks are only so deep. So remember when maintaining a Granwood floor or sports floor make sure to keep it clean and maintained just like any other sports floors.

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