Hardwood Flooring Repair & Refinishing in Tampa
Wood floors are a renewable resource! After taking a beating for many years, or even decades, they can be refinished to look completely new. Here in Tampa, many homes were built with hardwood floors which have since been carpeted, or covered with other materials. Not a problem! Those materials can be removed and the floors underneath sanded,stained and finished to look like they were installed yesterday.
The first step is to assess the damage to individual boards. Our carpenters are skilled at removing damaged boards and replacing them with new ones to create an invisible repair in your Tampa Bay hardwood floor. For a prefinished wood floor, this is often the only step necessary. Generally, but not always, on an unfinished hardwood floor, refinishing is needed to blend the new wood.
The next step is sanding with a machine that is large, powerful and difficult to control. Our machines are state-of-the-art, calibrated to remove the smallest amount of wood possible to give you a beautiful floor. Our craftsmen are schooled well in the proper handling of these cumbersome machines to remove only the amount of material necessary to smooth the floor and prepare it for staining. In untrained hands, this equipment can bounce along a floor, causing “chatter marks” or dig too deeply into the wood making uneven spots and shortening a floor’s life.
To change the look of your floor, we can apply a custom stain of any color. An Oak floor could be stained to have the richness of Teak or Walnut. Through custom staining we can create a wood floor that is the only one of its kind in Tampa. We can even paint it!
