Hexagon marble mosaic set on a bathroom floor in Yorkville and cut in around the floor drain, with the walls still on bare backer board ahead of the wall tile.
The converted houses here were built when wide, thick boards were ordinary rather than a premium option. A floor like that, even under decades of darkened finish, is frequently worth more than anything you could buy to replace it, and at $4 to $8 per square foot a sand and refinish costs roughly half of new hardwood at $10 to $18. The test is thickness above the tongue, and it takes one look at a board edge. In the towers the conversation is completely different: concrete slab, no nailing, and a declaration that sets an acoustic minimum you have to certify against before the board will let the job start.
Sanded back and re-coated, with a stain sample on your actual floor first.
Acoustic underlay lab certificate, slab tested, board package prepared.
White oak, walnut and site-finished floors at the upper end of the range.
The single question that decides refinish against replace, and it is free to answer.
Red oak and white oak behave differently under the same colour. We sample on your floor, not on a board in a showroom.
Confirmed from the declaration before anything is ordered.
Site finishing gives a flat surface with no bevels and an exact colour match, at the cost of days on site.
Pre-finished boards arrive coated, go down fast and carry a factory-cured finish. Site finishing sands and coats after laying, which gives a surface with no micro-bevels between boards and a colour mixed to what you want rather than chosen from a sample. In a Yorkville interior where the floor is meant to read as one continuous plane, that difference is visible. The cost is days on site, dust control and a longer wait before the room is genuinely back in use.
Reviews collected directly from clients.
The team refinished our existing hardwood floors and brought them back to life. The colour looks great, and the final finish is smooth and consistent.
Ontario Flooring installed new hardwood flooring throughout our home, and the results look beautiful. The crew was careful, professional, and kept the work area clean from start to finish.
Frequently, yes. Boards of that age and width are hard to buy now and they have a grain and colour depth that new stock does not. As long as there is wear layer left to sand, refinishing gives you a better floor for less money than replacing it.
No micro-bevels between boards, so the surface reads as one continuous plane, and the colour is mixed to match what you want rather than chosen from a sample. The trade is time, dust control and a longer period before the room is fully usable.
It varies by building. Some turn a complete package around in days, others only review at a monthly meeting. Submitting a complete package with the acoustic certificate first time is the main thing you control.