The highlight of this weekend’s Merchant Festival in Glasgow was the opening of The Briggait, a vibrant new arts centre and studio complex created from the original Victorian fishmarket.

McKay Flooring were delighted to be involved in the refurbishment of this iconic place. We restored the original oak flooring, repairing, sanding and sealing the wooden flooring and helping to bring life back to one of the Merchant City’s finest buildings.

You can read more about the history and renovation of The Briggait in the Scotsman with more information on the architecture of the Briggait on the Scottish Architecture website. BBC Scotland has published a slideshow of the Briggait Reborn.

This is a great time to maintain and renew your property before the ravages of a Scottish winter – or September to May as it is otherwise know. The good news is we have you covered from top to toe with the launch of our new Home Coat Solutions website.

A sister company of McKay Flooring, Home Coat Solutions specialises in roof coating and roof cleaning as well as wall coating, flat roofing and all aspects of protective coating, sealing and cleaning throughout Scotland and the UK.

Whether you are creating a new flat roof or repairing your existing roof, we supply RubberBond FleeceBack, one of the toughest low-maintenance flat roof materials you can buy. It is inexpensive but immensely durable.

Our roof and wall services include inspection, pressure cleaning, repair work and the application of top-quality protective coatings with a 10 year guarantee.

We offer a free quote and home survey and best of all, if you sign up before 31 July 2010, you will be eligible for a 15% discount. Contact us today on 0800 433 4805.

If you are in the hunt for bargain flooring, do not miss the great McKay Flooring Yard Sale. We are having a monster Summer Stock Clearance on the weekend of Saturday 31 July and Sunday 1 August 2010 with wood flooring as much as 80% off.

It is called a yard sale because that is where it is – outside our Glasgow showroom (Google map) at 123 Harmony Row. There are plenty of bargains to be had as we clear out surplus stock to make way for new.

You will find leading brands in wooden flooring such as Junckers, Kahrs and Clyde and a wide variety of products including hardwood flooring, laminate flooring and solid granite tiles.

For a full list of bargain flooring items, download our catalogue (in pdf form). Right click to save it to your computer.

Do you use Facebook? Here is our wood flooring event on Facebook.

As the 2010 Open Championship tees off under a pearly sky, we have been talking about one of our favourite recent commissions, a very special wooden flooring which we created for the Turnberry Resort, one of Scotland’s great golf venues.

Our job was to supply and fit 500 square metres of Wenge parquet flooring in both a herringbone and ladder pattern throughout the foyer, main dining room and the Turnberry bars, all in time for last year’s open championship.

McKay Flooring worked round the clock to get the job done and Turnberry was delighted with the result. This is the first time we have posted photographs of the finished floors. We hope you like them.

If you are looking for great deals on wood flooring, we have good news.

McKay Flooring now has voucher codes available for many of our great flooring products.

You will find all the latest flooring deals and vouchers on the My Voucher Codes website.

When he reviewed the Bo’Vine restaurant in the Hilton Glasgow Grosvenor hotel, humourist Tam Cowan told his readers:

the sleek, modern decor with lots of dark woods and leather booths was reminiscent of many a classy steakhouse I’ve visited in New York and Vegas

He also said the black pudding starter was “more like a full blood transfusion”, but let’s not go there.

It would be nice to think his description of the Bo’Vine as classy extended to the wood flooring which was created from soft edge European oak by McKay Flooring.

Soft edge European oak is a beautiful flooring reminiscent of the time the best oak floors were planed to a soft flat surface in situ by the master carpenter as he finished off the floor. According to the manufacturer, “this meant each board took on a slight curve as it was easier to smooth the edges down than to level the whole floor”.

Next time you are in Glasgow, stake out the Bo’Vine restaurant. It is worth it for a glimpse of the floor.

If you are looking for a solid wooden flooring with history beneath your feet, McKay Flooring has two recent additions to show you.

We have 120 square metres of reclaimed solid oak block flooring, sized 230mm x 70 mm x 20mm.

We also have 60 square metres of reclaimed solid maple block flooring, sized 230mm x 70mm x 20mm.

Both products are priced at £15 per square metre and are only available while stocks last. Contact us on 0845 602 7694 or visit the solid wood flooring section of our website.

Are you an experienced floor sander? If so McKay Flooring currently has a vacancy in the Scottish Central belt.

We only operate to the highest standards, therefore there is little point in applying if you do not have experience in a similar work setting. You must be able to supply references and a full driving licence is also an advantage.

If you have the required skills and take satisfaction in doing a great job, please email your CV to enquiries@mckayflooring.co.uk or call 0141 4401 1586 and talk to Stephen Fraser, our contracts director.

If you are pining for something a bit special for your wooden flooring, we have the answer for you. McKay Flooring currently has a batch of fine Scottish pitch pine available from our Glasgow showroom.

But you need to hurry as this special offer is only available while stocks last.

If you would like to know more, view a sample or ask about prices please contact us on 0141 440 1586.

Fitting a top-quality sports flooring is a very specialised task and takes skill and experience. We are very serious about sport at McKay Flooring and have just launched phase one of a new sports flooring website

This is the beginning of what should be a valuable resource, particularly for architects, quantity surveyors and planners. We will share advice on laying and maintaining floors and offer a number of useful documents on caring for and laying sports floors for download.

The site will also showcase what we can do with Junckers flooring, the top brand in UK. McKay Flooring have been the highest volume Junckers sports flooring installer in the UK for the last three years.

Here is a short video all about Junckers sports flooring.