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By choosing DH French Polishers you can be assured of a professional attitude from highly experienced tradesmen providing the highest standard of traditional and modern hand finishing.
Our staff are fully insured and have worked in many high profile and historic venues including Buckingham Palace, Fortnum & Mason, Drapers' Company, Royal Academy of Arts and The Connaught Hotel to name just a few.
French Polishing: A highly technical, labour-intensive, slow-building process of applying thinned shellac with a special pad; most often associated with fine European antiques.
Although mostly concerned with the period after 1800, the first reference
of shellac in Europe appears as early as 1590 in the writing of an English
writer who was sent to India where he was introduced to shellac. Commenting
on a procedure for applying lac to wood, he writes:
"They take a piece of Lac of what colour they will, and as they turn
it when it commeth to his fashion they spread the Lac upon the whole piece
of wood, about the thickness of a man's nail. Then they burnish it over with
a broad straw or dry Rushes so cunningly that all the wood is covered, and
it shineth like glass, most pleasant to behold. In this sort they cover all
kind of household wood in India."
French polish is formed from the excretion of the Lab Beetle (Laccifer Lacca)
which is the core ingredient of shellac.' From the beetle to the tree, shellac
embarks on a remarkable natural process before it is purified for commercial
use. Shellac was confined to the Far East until traders introduced it to Europe
in the 1700's, it wasn't until the 18th century that the technique was refined
by the French.
At DH French Polishers we use both the traditional French Polishing methods to restore many items of furniture. We also use more up to date methods and materials. We can provide any finish whether you require matt, silk or high gloss. We use many different materials depending on the project, all of which are applied by our skilled French polishers to provide you with an outstanding job.
At DH French Polishers, we not only restore and French polish many items of individual furniture, we also undertake many floor restorations. Whether you have an old floor which needs to be fully sanded back, stained and sealed using a durable lacquer or you have a brand new floor which you would like to be sanded and finished to match existing colour ways, we provide competitive, tailored quotes for each individual project.
We have the latest in 98% dust free sanders which all of our floor
sanding staff are fully trained to use.
We have undertaken many floor projects, from intricate domestic work to large
scale projects with 1000’s of metres of flooring in prestigious art
galleries and museums.
