Constitution Dock Restaurant: Engineered Oak in a Working Kitchen's Shadow
An engineered oak dining floor detailed to survive service traffic, spilled wine and a waterfront humidity swing.
- Project Category
- Commercial Hospitality
- Location
- Hobart Waterfront, TAS
- Material Selection
- Engineered European Oak
- Installation Time
- 10 Days
The Challenge & Vision
A waterfront room that swings from damp winter mornings to a full house on a summer evening, with the humidity range that implies. Solid timber would have cupped within a season. The owners still wanted a real oak surface underfoot in the dining room, and the fitout window was the ten days between Christmas and the January trade.
The Solution
A 14mm engineered board with a 4mm oak wear layer over a birch ply core — dimensionally stable across the humidity range in a way solid stock is not. Fully bonded to the slab rather than floated, so there is no hollow sound under service traffic, and finished in a commercial-grade matt polyurethane that takes red wine without staining.
- Total Area
- 240m²
- Total Area
- Wear Layer
- 4mm Oak
- Wear Layer
Project Details
- Client
- Constitution Dock Restaurant
- Location
- Hobart Waterfront, TAS
- Total Area
- 240 sqm
- Timeline
- 10 Days
- Material
- 14mm Engineered Oak, 4mm Wear Layer
Watch the Installation
Ten days of engineered oak going down through the dining room, condensed into a short walkthrough.
Project Roadmap
Ten days between the Christmas close and the January reopening.
Day 1: Survey
Slab moisture tested and the room mapped for level across 240sqm.
Day 2–3: Prep
Old floor lifted, slab ground back, moisture barrier and primer applied.
Day 4–8: Fit
Engineered oak fully bonded, board by board, from the window wall inward.
Day 9–10: Finish
Commercial matt polyurethane applied and cured ahead of reopening.
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