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About Barfords
Barfords Contractors Ltd is a family company comprising of highly skilled craftsmen with a solid background in antique restoration and French polishing. For over 25 years we have restored and installed fine furniture in commercial and domestic and retail properties, also installed and repaired numerous wooden floors, using our in depth knowledge of species combined with colour matching and ageing techniques.
Gilding, the fine art of applying gold leaf, and leather restoration, to fixtures and furniture are a natural progression, to our services.
We utilise the very best tried and tested methods, combined with the highest quality materials to give the finish you require. Barford’s always use materials that are British Standard and FSC approved whenever possible. Rapid advances in recent years with ‘eco’ products have provided us with the opportunity to embrace these advances that are durable and ecologically sound.
We offer a courteous, professional service, to the highest quality and standard, to ensure full client satisfaction every time. Barford’s are proud to be accredited by both The Guild of Master Craftsmen and Constructionline for French polishing and furniture restoration also hardwood and parquet flooring and restoration.
Fitting New Oak Chevron Parquet over Under Floor Heating
This is a new oak chevron floor being fitted over U.F.H. A chevron floor differs from standard parquet as the ends butt together forming a
Sanding Oak Wooden Parquet Floor
This existing oak parquet floor is being sanded with our latest machine. The heavy varnish is being removed to reveal the parquet blocks. The cut
Removing Fireplace and Replacing Reclaimed Pine Flooring to Match
This Existing fireplace was carefully removed to have new floorboards fitted to the wall Ensuring our antique pine fitted, we cut the original columbian pine flooring
Fine Antique French Writing Table – Leather Top & Gilding (gold) Restoration
The leather top (skive) has been carefully repaired with small leather patches. These have been dyed and carefully inserted into the burnt holes. The surrounding
Fine French Antique Leather Writing Desk – Repair
This beautiful french writing desk has a number of necessary repairs, the fine marquetry is being repaired in this (upside down) pic. The fine leather
Repairing Antique Mahogany Desk Skive Leather Top
This finest French 18C writing bureau has burn marks to the thick leather skive (top). to replace would cause the item to loose value and