Archive for the ‘portland hardwood’ Category
Updated Website Content
Friday, October 30th, 2009
We have updated our website. We feel that some of the old content may not have been descriptive enough for our current direction as a company. We also feel that the section on hardwood floor refinishing wasn’t descriptive enough to define what separates our service from our peers. If you have questions or any suggestions please e-mail us. Look for more updates in the future. Thanks for your interest.
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Old houses and historically accurate repairs
Saturday, September 19th, 2009
I was working last week on the home of my friends Patrick Galvin and Ellen Galvin in order to restore a section of flooring in their home that was buried under carpet. As you can see in the following sequence of photos the removal of the carpet revealed a couple of surprises.
After removing the carpet we installed salvaged old growth fir flooring reclaimed from a school in Milton-Freewater. The floors were sanded and finished according to our standard process. As you can see in the next photos the floor maintains an original appearance. This is critical not only for appearance, but for maintaining a historically accurate appearance.
Tags: dustless refinishing, hardwood refinishing, Portland hardwood floor, Swedish finish, wood floor sanding
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Why can’t you sand that old fir floor?
Wednesday, April 1st, 2009
All the time I meet different people for an estimate who assume that their old Fir floors cannot be refinished, so they think that they will install new flooring over the floors. Usually the floors have been covered in paint, carpet, or linoleum forever and as time has gone on people have realized the best looking of their options is a wood floor. One important thing to understand about the floor sanding process is that usually only 1/32″ to 1/16″ of flooring actually is removed during sanding. If you consider that a wear layer on a floor is typically 5/16″ and a quality refinish will endure 10-20 years of wear with proper maintenance, then you can see that most floors ,even those that are 100 years old or greater, have some remaining life. I have seen some of the worst hardwood floors be revived in 5 days to a state of beauty that few would expect. My answer is almost always, “Yes, you can sand that old Fir floor!”. It’s more cost effective and has less impact on the environment because you reuse an existing resource.
Tags: dustless refinishing, hardwood refinishing, Portland hardwood floor, portland oregon hardwood contractor, Swedish finish, wood floor sanding
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