Hardwood floor installation, sanding, refinishing, recoating and repairs in Columbia, South Carolina

The work

Installation, sanding and refinishing, recoating and repairs. Below is what each one involves so you know what you are asking for before you call.

Installation

New hardwood, laid board by board. We prepare the subfloor, set the boards, and finish the transitions where the floor meets the rest of the house.

A new floor is only as good as what sits under it, so installation starts with the subfloor: flat, dry and sound before a single board goes down. From there the boards are laid room by room, kept straight through doorways, and closed off with the thresholds and trim that hold the edges. When the last piece is in, the floor is one continuous surface rather than a set of separate rooms.

  • Checking the subfloor is flat, dry and sound before anything goes down
  • Laying the boards, room by room
  • Thresholds and transitions where the floor meets doorways and other rooms

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Sand & Refinish

Sanding an old floor back to bare wood and building a new finish on it. The scratches and worn traffic paths come off with the old finish.

Refinishing is how a tired floor becomes a new one without being replaced. The old finish comes off along with a thin layer of wood, which takes the scratches, the grey patches and the worn paths through the room with it. Then the finish goes back on in coats. A floor can only be sanded so many times before the boards run out of thickness, so we look at what you have first and say whether sanding is the right call.

  • Sanding the floor back to bare wood
  • Edges and corners worked to match the middle of the room
  • The new finish built back up in coats

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Recoating & Maintenance

A fresh coat over a floor whose finish is worn but whose wood is still sound. Lighter work than a full sand, and it keeps a floor from needing one.

A recoat never touches bare wood. The existing finish is abraded so a new coat can bond to it, then that coat goes over the whole floor. It suits a floor that looks dull and scuffed rather than damaged, and done at the right time it puts off a full sanding for years. If the finish has already worn through to the wood in places, a recoat is the wrong answer and we will tell you so.

  • A light abrasion of the existing finish so a new coat can bond
  • A fresh coat of finish across the whole floor
  • What to do between coats to keep the finish going

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Repairs

Cracked, cupped, stained or water damaged boards come out, replacements go in, and the repair is blended into the floor around it.

Damage is usually local. A leak under a dishwasher, a cracked board in a doorway, a stained patch by a door. Those boards come out and replacements go in, woven into the existing floor so the seams do not line up in a row. The last part is blending the repair into the finish around it, because a repair that is obviously a repair is only half fixed.

  • Taking out cracked, cupped or water damaged boards
  • Fitting replacement boards into the existing floor
  • Blending the repair into the finish around it

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Talk to us about your floors

Call and tell us what you have, or send the details and we will come back to you.

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