Getting the Edge Right Against What Stays
The middle of a room is the straightforward part. The edges are where the work is, because a machine that grinds a wide floor cannot reach the last inch against a cabinet leg or a hearth, and that strip has to be prepared by hand to the same standard as everything else. If it is not, you get a visible band around the perimeter where the coating never properly keyed in, and it will show first at exactly the places your eye already goes. We cut those edges in deliberately and we mask whatever we are working against.
Fixed furniture also decides the order of the work. Anything that can be lifted out is lifted out, anything that cannot is protected and worked around, and where a run of cabinetry sits directly on the floor we stop the coating in a clean, deliberate line rather than letting it die out under the kickboard. You end up with a floor that looks intentional at every junction, which is the difference you notice a year later. It is worth settling all of this at the quote so nothing has to be decided in a hurry on the day. The edges follow the same build as the middle: here is what goes down in what order.
