Refinishing and repair
“Custom wood floors with onsite sand and finish with dust free sanding and environmental friendly finishes.” — George W. Gargus III
The floor is sanded and finished where it lies
Onsite means the whole job happens in your house, on the boards already nailed down. Nothing is taken away to a shop and nothing shows up with the finish already on it.
The sander takes the old coating and the worn grey layer off until the boards are bare. Then the finish goes on.
Most floors can take this several times over their life. That is why an old wood floor is usually worth sanding before it is worth replacing.
What dust free sanding actually means
Sanding a floor makes dust. It is old finish and the top of the wood coming off, fine enough to drift into every room in the house.
Dust free sanding means the sander runs to a vacuum that pulls the dust off the floor as it is cut.
Less hangs in the air. Less lands on your shelves and countertops.
And less settles into the finish while it is still wet — which is what leaves grit in a floor sanded the old way.
It does not make the job silent and it does not mean zero dust anywhere. It means the dust is caught at the machine rather than cleaned up afterwards.
Environmental friendly finishes
Every floor finish goes on wet and hardens. What separates them is how much solvent goes into the air of your house as it dries.
Environmental friendly finishes put less of that solvent into the air than the old oil-based coatings. Less smell in the house while the floor dries.
Which finish belongs on your floor depends on the wood, the sheen you want and how hard the room gets used. Ask him when he comes out to look at it.
A section, not the whole room
Damage on a wood floor is usually local. A leak under a dishwasher. A stain by a door. A run of boards torn up when a wall came out.
The floor does not have to be redone end to end. The bad boards come out and new ones go in.
They are matched to the species, the width and the pattern already down, so the repair belongs to the floor instead of standing apart from it.
Not every floor is a candidate. Some are worn past the point where patching in is right, and replacement is the better job.
George looks at the floor and tells you which one you have. The estimate is free.
For homes and for business
His service list carries these as separate jobs: wood flooring refinishing, wood flooring refinishing for business, wood flooring repair or partial replacement, and wood flooring repair or partial replacement for business.
A house floor and a commercial floor get the same onsite sand and finish. What changes is how much wood is left on the boards and when the work can happen.
Family owned and operated with years of experience in all types of flooring. No job is too big or too small.
When sanding is not the answer
Refinishing fixes a floor that is sound but worn — dull, scratched, greyed off, or a colour you have stopped liking. It does not fix structure.
Cupped, split or water-damaged boards are a repair job, and that happens before any sanding.
If the floor has already been sanded down to the nails, replacement is the honest answer — see installation.
He will tell you which one you are looking at when he comes out.
Free estimate on your floor
Dust free sanding, eco-friendly finishes, and repair where the floor needs it. Serving Ashland, Medford, Jacksonville and all of Southern Oregon for over 35 years.