Wood Floor Refinishing New York City

Many beautiful floors are unsuspectingly hidden under carpet or just worn down by years of traffic, age, light scratches or water damage. Refinishing is the best solution. Sometimes a floor with shallow scratches on a dull surface needs only a top coat of finish to bring out it's beauty.

Hardwood is perhaps the most practical of all flooring materials. But over time, the protective finish may wear off, most noticeably in heavy traffic areas. This is the perfect time to refinish your wood flooring. Applying a modern new finish can even make hardwood floors much easier to maintain than when they were originally installed.

Sanding or Dustless Refinishing NYC

Wood Flooring Tip: Go to a high-traffic area where the finish takes the most abuse. Pour a tablespoon of water onto the floor. If the water forms beads, the floor is properly sealed. At most, cleaning and stain removal is needed.

Sanding and Refinishing

Sanding is necessary if one or more areas exist where the original finish has worn through to bare wood; if the finish is moderately to heavily scratched, or has chipped away altogether in places, or if the floor's coverage with rugs or furniture has caused environmental bleaching or discoloring in some areas.

Our hardwood flooring professionals have the knowledge and experience to give your wood floors a quality new finish. They also have the proper equipment to handle the job efficiently, including power sanders to remove the existing finish and to prepare the wood to accept new stain. Unless you have experience in this area, it is not advisable to take on a project of this magnitude by yourself.

Sandless Refinishing (Recoating)

Recoating may be your best choice when your existing finish is lightly scratched here and there, and perhaps "dulled-out" as well. With recoating, no sanding is involved. The floors existing finish is lightly abraded with either a sanding screen or an abrasive pad, and one new coat of finish is applied. If there are areas of the floor where the finish has worn through to bare wood, recoating would not be the best refinishing choice.