Water-based finishes

Getting a beautiful, durable finish for your timber floors has never been so easy!

Cabot's CFP Water Based is a premium quality water based finish which gives high clarity and cool tones to timber flooring, whilst providing excellent durability and long lasting wear. It is easy to apply and along with low odour and fast drying results allows you to achieve a fresh new look for your floor boards with minimal interruption.

New Cabot's CFP Sandless Floor Primer makes refreshing your timber floors easier than ever. It replaces the requirement to sand your floor prior to the application of CFP Water Based. The clear coating is designed exclusively for providing a sound base for a topcoat of CFP Water Based on previously coated timber, parquetry and timber floating floors.

Watch our short introduction to the Cabot's Sandless Floor System online to see how easy it is:

The Sandless Floor System

CFP Water Based

Clear Floor

Characteristics:	Hard wearing, high clarity, low odour, quick drying formulation (gloss & satin)
Uses:	All interior timber, parquetry and cork flooring and timber exposed to wear and tear.
Drying time:	Min. 3 hrs re-coat / sanding
Wash up:	Water

Gloss on Victorian Ash	Satin on Brush Box	Gloss on Pine


Gloss on Jarrah

Handy Hints

Nailing and Puttying floorboards - Before sanding, punch nails at least 3mm below the surface. Once the boards are sanded smooth, apply the first coat of clear, fill holes and cracks liberally with Wood Tone Putty and allow to dry. Remove the excess putty with the next fine sand and you're ready for coating!

Sanding old floors - If your floors are old and have layers of varnish on them which need removing, or have 'cupped' at the edges, making the floor uneven, use a heavy grit sandpaper on the sanding machine, working diagonally across the boards and timber grain. This will remove the majority of the old coating as well as even out the boards so subsequent sands give a perfect finish.

'Sandwich' Staining - After the first coat, you can enhance the colour of the floor with Woodcraft or Interior Stain by adding up to 10% stain to the clear base, then applying coats until you achieve the desired shade. Finish with a clear top coat.

CFP Sandless
Floor Primer

CFP Sandless Floor Primer

Characteristics:	Provides excellent adhesion to previously coated timber floors and a sound base for a top coat of CFP Water Based.
Uses:	Strictly for use on previously coated old timber floors (timber floors that are tired and worn), and Timber floating floors (not laminate floating floors).
Drying time:	Min. 6 hrs before recoating with CFP Water Based
Wash up:	Water

The Cabot's CFP Sandless Flooring System consists of two products – Cabot's CFP Sandless Floor Primer and Cabot's CFP Water Based Top Coat. They're ideal for use on any worn and tired previousley coated solid timber floors, including floating timber floors.

No Sanding means:

No risk of damage
Less mess
Less expense
Less hard work

In three simple steps, customers can give their timber floors a new lease of life. And with quick and simple application and recoating, the whole process takes less than a day!

The CFP Water Based flooring system provides excellent adhesion to worn timber floors, hiding minor surface scuffs and scratches.

Before	After

The Cabot's Sandless Floor System will not hide all scratches. For floors with highly visible scratches and imperfections sanding will still be required.