Hardwood floor refinishing in West End
The West End is full of early and mid-century houses between Quinpool and the Arm, and most of them have solid maple or oak worth keeping. We refinish it rather than sell you a replacement.
Floors built to be refinished
The solid strip flooring in these houses was laid thick, on the assumption that somebody would sand it every few decades. That assumption still holds. A solid maple or oak floor of this vintage usually has several sand-backs left in it, and a floor with wear layer to spare is a floor you should be restoring instead of covering.
The catch is that nobody knows how many of those sand-backs have already been spent without looking. We check the board height against the nose of a stair tread or the edge of a floor register, which tells us plainly how much wood is left. If the answer is not much, a recoat protects what remains and a sand-back would waste it.
What the coastal damp does here
Halifax swings a long way between a humid summer and a dry heated winter, and wood floors move with it. Boards that sit tight in August can show hairline gaps in February, and that is normal seasonal movement rather than a defect. What is not normal is edges standing proud of the board centres, which means moisture is getting in from underneath and needs sorting before any finish goes down.
We look for that before we quote, because sanding a floor flat while it is still holding water locks the problem in and it comes back. If we find it, we will tell you what has to happen first and roughly how long the floor needs to dry.
Nearby areas we cover
Not sure what your floors need? Start with the difference between a recoat and a full refinish, or see what moves the price.
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