We live in a house about 15 years old. The kitchen has nice wood floors but I recently noticed that a few places with high traffic have spots with more-or-less bare wood. I wouldn't think this is good for the wood.
Is it expensive to get them re-polished? Do they need to be re-sanded first? Is this better for a professional to do? Would you just spot-wax and stretch out the re-do for a bit longer?
Thanks for the feedback. To clarify things just a bit, yes the wood floors are solid wood. We moved into the house last year, so maintenace wasn't not done by us. <g> The wood is in the kitchen, so there is just a table & chairs to move. From your feedback, I'm thinking it will be about $1k to $2k for the job. That gives me a ballpark idea. Thanks!
we used "mr sandless" look them up on line for photos. i hope they are in your area. hope this answer isn't too late
All wood floors will require periodic refinishing, and at 15 years it certainly sounds like you're past due. (I think they recommend 5 years if I am not mistaken.)
We had the hardwood floors in our living room and dining room refinished when we bought our home and it cost us a total of $900 for both rooms. They were sanded and then re-stained (previous owners had carpeting over them, but we didn't care for the color of the stain.)
We just had old wood floors refinished/repolished (not sanded, just new surface) and they look great. So my girlfiend then had her floors (newer home and maybe not a totally real wood) done by the same guy and they look super. No sanding, easy, no odors, pretty cheap actually when looking at refinish with sanding or the hassle of soing it yourself, and for her it got out dog scratches oin the wood.
We both used John Gleason at New Glow Floor Enhancement. HIs number is ###-###-#### and he was great to work with. He and his son did both of our places together.
Good luck.
D. J.
I used to work for Above All Hardwood Floors and have experience with refinishing flooring. You need a pro to look at it and it sounds like you'll need sanding and finishing rather than the cheaper and less invasive buff and coat. They'll sand down to bare wood and put 3 coats on to protect the wood. If you only needed a buff and coat they'd basically scuff the surface and re coat with polyurethane. Sanding will probably be between $3-4 per square foot - depending on the type of finish used, whether or not you stain it and how much detail work is needed or how much damage there is.
Above All is located in Prior Lake and have a really good customer service track record! If you contact them tell them H. sent you and said to take good care of you! Let me know if you need any other information!!
We recently discovered that we had hardwood floors under our carpeting. Because the coloring was simply faded and uneven we didn't feel like they really needed to be sanded before having them refinished. Not to mention that being displaced for a few days while the floors were being done really was not an option for us. We had a company called Mr. Sandless come and do our floors for us. They basically do a chemical peal on the floors and then refinish/stain them. Ours turned out great and the best part was that they were done & we were able to walk on them within 8hrs! I know there are other companies who do sandless floor refinishing. I suggest you look into some of those places if you don't think they really need to be sanded. Our Living room, dining room and a small hallways cost us only $675.
First ...are your floors solid wood? If they are then having them stripped and sanded could be a great alternative and it not cheap but not as expensive as replacing them. If they are not solid wood, I'm not sure if there are products that could help a laminated wood product although there are severely products on the market that you could try to bring back the shine. Good Luck
hi -
We had our floors redone several years ago due to water damage (from the company who did not caulk under the new door thus let in the spring rain!) There was a 3 foot area by the door that need to be redone but they did the entire room. if you "spot treat" it will look very different from the rest of the room. The biggest chore is having to remove all the furniture from the room and depending on where the room is (and how much exposure you want) you will probably need to stay somewhere else for several days. The companies insurance company paid ~$1,500 to strip/re-sand, and put 2 coat of polyurethane on ~500 sq feet of floor.
shop around get several quotes and I'd suggest not to go with the cheapest - you get what you pay for :)
good luck!
