Flash Floors NZ - Hawkes Bay

Flash Floors NZ - Hawkes Bay We Restore, Rebuild, Replace, Repair & Re-surface your floors, from the ground up. Give us a call.

Based in Hawkes Bay, New Zealand, also covering the North Island & happy to travel to the South Island with our offering, if & when the need arises.

04/06/2026

Cyclone Gabrielle has certainly woven itself into the back & beyond with varying accounts of damage done to Hawkes Bay properties… some of those we’re still being called to, to repair, rectify, restore or replace, 3 years on from such a monstrous event.

This beautiful Mediterranean styled home with its terracotta tiled floors, suffered a silt flow through its lower level, ripping the seal & in some cases, the glaze from the tiled surface.

Terracotta is porous. Sooo porous, it accepts anything spilt onto it, so if not protected by the right coatings, “everything” will stain it.

We hit this floor with a heavy duty water-based chemical strip, scrubbed the living daylights out of it, removed fungal stains & built up silt from the grout lines.. nothing a wire brush won’t handle.. sterilised the floor, then sealed & polished it. VOILA!

Several layers later & the coating has provided a stain resistant barrier to future spillages, the polish now also protecting the seal.

If you’re still battling the ravages of Cyclone Gabrielle in your floors, please feel free to get in touch & we’ll pop round for a chat👍😊

Adding to the previous Reel & the process we had to undertake in rectifying this clients flooring issue, what initially ...
30/05/2026

Adding to the previous Reel & the process we had to undertake in rectifying this clients flooring issue, what initially appeared like a small unstitch & replace vinyl plank project, grew into something far more sinister….

We felt incredibly sorry for our homeowners & the situation they found themselves in, but for their realistic perspective on the issue facing them & “the only” way through it (albeit costly), this was the opportunity to get it right.. permanently.

With their upstairs floor already in Rimu T & G, they made the decision to lay the same hardwood floor through their Hallway & Laundry below. Rimu overlay boards with a 200mm cover & 15mm thick, machined by in Hastings, were purchased & on arrival we graded them as usual into specific boards for the entrance vs under the stairs & for solid tongues & grooves, ensuring stability once laid.

Each photo is narrated to provide detail & transparency, in the event anyone viewing this post, may have a similar problem. If you do, please get in touch.

A flooring project with various complexities & “many” moving parts, not withstanding tack-off & curing times with the concrete prep products, while our homeowners were off-site for a week or so. Time management certainly had us on our toes with this job, the results now speaking for themselves & we’re looking to return to restore the upstairs when the weather’s a little warmer.


30/05/2026

Once upon a time, there was a family with a vinyl planked hallway & a plank popped up right in the middle 🫣

What are we to do ? Call that’s who 👍

A little cheeky intro, but without some lightheartedness & a very thankful family after our findings of the last 2 weeks, one could easily get bogged in the dark depths of a flooring issue compounded by the practices of a novice, under previous home ownership, a few years ago.

If you’ve got vinyl planking in place, that pops up in the middle, it only does this due to the pressure beneath having nowhere else to go… because the 6-10mm perimeter gap required when laying planks, was never allowed for, instead, skirtings, door jambs & architraves were fitted on top & fitted tight. As the ground temps heat & cool, you need that 6-10mm perimeter gap in place, to allow for expansion & contraction of the planks… otherwise the problem these owners were faced with, WILL happen.

HOWEVER… this wasn’t “the only” issue…..

A more serious situation revealed itself, as we unstitched the planks… the self levelling compound previously laid, wasn’t allowed to dry or cure properly, before laying the planks.

Then the self levelling compound wasn’t screeded smooth prior to laying the planks, leaving many high lumps unattended to. If you let this happen, the planks will definitely pop up.

HOWEVER HOWEVER!….. this also wasn’t “the last of the problems”….

Take a look at the video first, then look at the next post, where every photo is narrated. If you don’t moisture-proof your concrete foundation in preparation for laying a floating floor…. Moisture is trapped, buildup occurs & your floating floor is ruined. That’s putting it nicely….

The procedure we’ve applied, has now given the foundation in this area of the home (which was an add-on), the right protection, including for the beautiful Rimu Overlay floating floor we’ve now installed & resurfaced.

25/05/2026

It’s always a good feeling when your clients ask you back to do a floor refresh, or a maintenance service & “this” floor is an oldy & a goody, owned by friends & business colleagues Riccardo & Sara from Casa Ahuriri…

5 years ago, we attacked this floor for the first time & 5 years on, it was looking somewhat tired…. After all, being the former Speights Restaurant & for the last few years “Casa”, it’s certainly had some foot traffic & in need of a makeover….

& that’s exactly what it got !👍👍👍
If your floor looks like the first bunch of photos in this reel & you’d like a refresh done… get in touch, we’ll respond in a Flash 😊😊





18/04/2026



Let the light bounce off the floor, not suck right down into it!

If your floor looks like the “before” photos in this compilation & you’d like them restored, call us 👍

17/04/2026

When Facebook doesn’t allow photos & videos in the same post, a reel it must be! Our latest Rimu floor restoration, now complete. Check out our page for the before & afters in full, with this beautiful Rimu restoration.

It’s been a busy month in the land of repairing & restoring native timber floors, here in Hawkes Bay & having recently c...
17/04/2026

It’s been a busy month in the land of repairing & restoring native timber floors, here in Hawkes Bay & having recently completed a 200 Sqm Kwila floor, with unexpected wood fibre idiosyncrasies challenging us, we moved onto a BEAUTIFUL “Rimu” floor, with completely different wood fibre behaviour & one that surprised us… given it was Rimu..

Not evident on Assessment day, was the timber type. The 130mm wide boards being of high value on the recycled market, made restoring this floor, a definite YES!

Previously coated in many layers of super thick, old, dark brown varnish oil since the 1950s, then covered in vinyl & carpet with staples galore, challenged the owners who’d removed the bulk of staples before we arrived, but as per, there’s always more 😂🙄.

The varnish oil had bonded into the Rimu to such an extent, we had to bring in the heavy artillery & introduce the floor to the Drum Sander with 40 & 60grit belts… cross graining initially, before straight graining, leaving our big flexi-sander to iron out the wrinkles from there… there’s always a process & you “cannot” cut corners! With no lighting available & our own lamp stands casting too many shadows, our eyes on focus required much concentration to make sure all old coating had come away…

THIS Rimu must’ve been a very, very “old” tree when it was felled, clearly allowed to dry appropriately before turning into flooring & when laid, its fibres were so tightly packed, it became harder than any other “hard wood” timber we’ve encountered over the last 7 years. 100% the reverse of Rimu’s usual character in that it’s one of New Zealand’s softest timbers, naturally.

The raw shine we achieved through our sanding process, almost looked like we’d already coated it, so when applying our seal & polish, our applicator glided beautifully across the floor.

No more rabitting, here’s the results!

STUNNING “hard” Rimu floors with 2 major repairs needed where walls & a fire hearth sat previously & with Leon’s carpentry skills, he’s offset the floor boards, so as to neatly stitch them in, NOT “butt-join”. This Rimu is full of character, natural beauty, sappy grains & branch flexes & the photos don’t do it justice 🥰👍

** KWILA **Typically on a deck right?Not so, in this home up in the Havelock North hills.Originally laid in the early 20...
14/04/2026

** KWILA **

Typically on a deck right?

Not so, in this home up in the Havelock North hills.

Originally laid in the early 2000s, then coated with a dark unidentified product, “replacing” the naturally reddish-gold inflections Kwila is reknowned for, resulting in incredibly dark room spaces & sucking the natural light that filled the living area through all the bi-folding doors, down into the floor.

The dark had to go!!!!

With a busy family & pets putting up with our machinery on the daily (nothing a good stereo won’t fix), we set about removing “the dark” & bringing through those gold flecks & the many differing reddy brown colours of this Island timber. By the time we’d finished & our waterbased coatings were laid ready to walk on (same day), I could grab those all important “after” photos.

If you’ve not seen Kwila laid internally before, here’s the end result of producing the natural beauty Kwila provides, WITHOUT being hidden beneath a dark varnish. Our coatings are translucent, so every grain, knot & ounce of personality that timber contains, is brought to the surface for complete clarity & definition.

This home is now MUCH lighter inside, the surface is totally visible & its beauty is obvious.

You be the judge & fire away with any questions that spring to mind.






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