Hardwood floor refinishing and repair in Edmonton

Yes. We are a hardwood floor refinishing and repair business working in Edmonton. We do the sanding, staining, finishing and board repair ourselves, from a single-day recoat through to a full sand-back.

No. We come and look at your floors, tell you what they actually need, and give you a number in writing. There is no charge for the visit and no pressure to book afterwards.

It comes down to floor area, what the wood is in for, and whether you need a light recoat or a full sand-back. A recoat is the cheapest thing we do. A full sand with a colour change is the most expensive. We price your floors in person so the number is for your house, not a range off a website. Our Edmonton cost page walks through what moves the figure and where the published numbers come from.

Refinish, in almost every case where the wood is solid and has thickness left above the tongue. Replacing a solid oak floor that could have been sanded is the most expensive way to solve a cosmetic problem. Replacement genuinely wins when the boards are rotten, when water has been in the subfloor, when the floor is engineered with a wear layer too thin to sand, or when the floor has already been sanded to its limit. We check which of those you are in before quoting anything.

A screen and recoat abrades the existing finish and puts one or two fresh coats over it, so the wood is never touched. A full refinish sands through the finish and into the wood, removing scratches, stains and colour. If the finish is dull and lightly scratched but the wood underneath is clean, you want a recoat. If bare wood is showing, or there are dark stains and gouges in the timber, a recoat will just seal those in.

Possibly, and it is worth checking before you spend anything. A solid oak floor can only be sanded down to the top of the tongue and groove, and each full sand uses some of that. Most Edmonton houses built between 1960 and 1980 went down on three quarter inch solid oak, which usually has several sands in it. Older pre-war floors and thin engineered floors are the ones that run out. We pull a floor vent or a threshold to look at the edge of a board, which answers it properly instead of guessing.

Often, yes, if it is caught early. Boards that cupped but dried out can usually be sanded flat and refinished with no sign they were wet. Boards that stayed wet long enough to blacken or soften come out and get replaced. What decides it is how long the water sat. The floor also has to come back to a normal moisture reading before anything permanent happens, because sanding a wet floor flat locks the problem in.

A screen and recoat is often a single day. A full sand and finish is usually a few days including cure time, and longer if a stain colour is going on, because the stain has to dry before the clear coats start. The rooms being worked on are out of use until the finish hardens. We give you the actual schedule for your house at the quote rather than a general answer.

Because oak gives up moisture when the air gets dry, and an Edmonton winter with the furnace running is very dry indoors. The boards shrink across their width, the gaps open, and they close again in spring. That is a floor behaving normally, not a floor failing. Filling seasonal gaps in January is a mistake, because the filler gets crushed out when the wood comes back. Gaps that stay open year-round are a different problem and worth looking at.

We do, and we will tell you first that you are likely to see the seam. A patched board disappears when the whole floor gets a fresh finish over it. On its own, a new board against forty year old ambered oak reads as a bright stripe no matter how well it is colour-matched. If the repair is somewhere it will not be looked at, that can still be the right call.

It means the sanding machines are connected to a vacuum that captures most of the dust at the source. It is not literally zero dust and nobody should tell you it is. It is far cleaner than open sanding. We seal off the rooms that are not being worked on and we will walk you through where dust will still get before you book.

Any season works, but the indoor humidity swing matters here more than in most Canadian cities. Wood that has shrunk through a dry winter is at its narrowest, so gaps sanded and filled in February can look different by July. We take a moisture reading and factor the season into the plan rather than treating January and August as the same job.