How Many Sandings Can a Floor Brand Stand?

This is a question I had been asked a few times over the years (try a few thousand), but never-more than since Wickes said on their advert that their floor can be sanded up to 3 times.

Since that advert aired this has been one of the most common questions people ask when buying wood flooring products. How many sandings can it take? How many times can that species be sanded? Etc etc etc.

The truth is that there is no answer to this question, and that is why Wickes carefully chose to use the consumer-dreaded up-to in their promotions. How many times a floor can be sanded depends upon so many variables:

The type and/or quality of the sander, the reason for sanding (are there any deep grooves that need to be fixed), who is doing the sanding (how heavy are they leaning/are they pressing too hard) and many more variables based on the species of the wood, the age of the wood and also things like the atmosphere the wood has lived in.

That is why we will never give a clear answer, not even an up-to answer, because it just gives people false expectations.

What we can say is that Wickes real wood floor is 18mm thick. With the exception of our Caledonian, Tuscan and a few other species/brand combos, our flooring is between 20+22mm thick, those mentioned above are 18mm + 19mm thick, and our Junkers range, comes with a 14mm thick option, or a 22mm thick option.