Refinish Wood Floors Charlotte
OnlyWoodFloors
Specializing in Perfection Since 1984
Only Wood Floors is Charlotte's Go to for Refinishing Hardwood Floors.
Servicing Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex, and All Surrounding Areas
Hardwood Floor Installation
Stairs and Treads
Sanding and Refinishing
Exotic Wood
Restoration of Old Flooring
Wood Floor vs Carpeting
Staining
Floor Repair
Process of Refinishing Hardwood Floors
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Does Your Hardwood Floor Need to Be
Replaced or Refinished?
DON'T BE FOOLED OR MISLED
YOUR FLOOR MUST BE REPLACED
Unfortunately, some companies will tell you that your floor can't be saved and it needs to be replaced.
Some tell you that because they don't refinish wood floors and they make more money selling you a new one. Some companies tell you your floor can't be saved because they don't have the experience, both scenarios are bad.
If you have wood floors the majority of the time they can be saved and refinished.
We can normally tell you with just a few pictures
YOU HAVE WAX BUILD UP, WE MUST SAND YOUR FLOOR
That's not totally true. We use a special solution to losen the wax then our scrubbing and brushing machines to restore the integrity of your flooring.
We then buff and apply a new coat of finish bringing your floors back to life.
YOUR FLOORS MUST BE REFINISHED
Do your floors need to be refinished? If you want to change the color, yes. If you have deep scratches you want removed, yes.
If you have huge wore out areas or water damaged bucking, yes. But honestly a lot of the wood floors we look at only need a deep cleaning, light sanding and a new coat of polyurethane.
We call it a screen and coat.
Its a fraction of the cost and can have your floor looking almost new.
PROFESSIONAL CLEANING
Some times all you need is a professional cleaning.
We vacuum the floor with our felt-tip pads, spray our special neutralizing cleaner, buff with our high speed buffers, let it dry and then buff with a clean pad giving the floor a nice glow.
Refinishing Hardwood Flooring in Charlotte
The #1 question we receive is about refinishing hardwood floors. I hope this helps answer your questions.
The two biggest challenges when refinishing Charlotte Hardwood Flooring are where do you put the furniture and choosing a color.
If the house is empty, great but most of the time that’s not the case. Any area of hardwood flooring you wish to have refinished must be clear.
I’m no help at choosing the color. I’ve been refinishing Hardwood Flooring since 1984 and I’ve done every color you can think of and at the end of the day, I like them all. You can look at pictures online and you can see stain samples at Home Depot but when refinishing your hardwood floors, you need to have the sample colors applied on your floor and with at least one coat of clear finish.
Now to the real work.
Once the hardwood floor is clean and clear, no furniture and all the carpet, pad, tack-strip, staples, and nails have been removed we can get started.
We still hang plastic. Our machines all have vacuums and other companies will tell you its “dust-free” but that’s not true. To us old guys it seems like its dust-free because before the vacuum systems the house would be covered in dust. Now we are able to collect about 80% - 90% of the dust. But when you are refinishing Hardwood Flooring in Charlotte you will have dust.
We sand the floor with 7 or 8 grades of different sandpaper. It sounds like a lot but we are sanding off the wood a paper-layer at a time. You don’t want to sand off more wood flooring than you have to but you must sand out all of the imperfections.
We fill the nail holes, gaps and cracks in between each sand paper. At one point we will have every crack and gap filled but it’s impossible to stay that way. Between the old floors moving, the vibration of the sanding and the vacuums a few small cracks may reappear. We try and fill those in between the clear coats of polyurethane. Your Charlotte Hardwood Flooring will grow and shrink throughout the year so you will always have gaps somewhere.
We sand the hardwood floor so that it is tabletop smooth, we then apply 4 coats of a clear polyurethane. We do a light sanding in between each coat of finish.
If you prefer to have the floor stained (any color) once we have the hardwood floor table top smooth, we then wash the floor with denatured alcohol mixed with water. That opens the grain of the hardwood floor so that the stain can penetrate and gives the floor a deep rich even color. We let that dry, we then stain the hardwood floor. We stain the floor in the direction of the grain. We stain about a 2-foot section at a time working from one side of the room to the other. We let the stain set for a minute or two before wiping it off. It’s still done on our hands and knees ( no machine for this yet ) once the stain has dried we then start applying the 4 coats of clear polyurethane.