Hardwood floor refinish

Hardwood floor refinish is an art, here at floors in california everyone knows that; we take serius our "art", we are members of the National Wood Flooring Association"NWFA" we want to be always inform about the lates news in hardwood floor refinish, from how to maintain your wood floor beautiful for longer time at not cost, to the lates tecniques or equipment to have a "perfect hardwood floor refinish".
Our flooring guys are alumni of the "NWFA" and National Wood Flooring Manufactures Association "NOFMA" training school and seminars floors in california is certified in their " hardwood floor installation and repairs" "wood floor sanding, refinish, re-coating techniques ""Flooring Troble Shooting" training programs.
Through our floor sanding practices, studies, and continued innovation in wood floor sanding we have gained the expertise to answer almost any question that you may have about refinishing wood floors.
We can help you to select a beautiful wood floor stain color, Adding stain to your hardwood floors, is not expensive in fact is very affordable with Floors in California about $0.29 per sqft standard colors or $0.39 per sqft custom colors, you can choose form 17 standard wood stain colors, or 9 custom wood stain blends.
Refinishing Hardwood floors is something that we love, we would like to Refinish your old wood floors and make them back to live! check out our hardwood floor refinish galleries or our after and before flooring galleries our hardwood floor refinish rates are among the lowest in the area you looking to refinish you hardwood floors starting at $1.69 per sqft all labor and materials included using 3 coat of oil base.
check out our types of hardwood floor refinish types not anyone can Refinish wood floors,with a procedure that ensure a final high quality wood floor, floors in california use this hardwood floor refinish procedures to ensure the quality of your wood floors you can check our Hardwood floor refinish procedures

FAQ for Wood floors sanding and refinish

1. How much cost to refinish hardwood floors?
2. Will my home be full of wood dust when the hardwood floor refinish is completed?
3. How many days will take to sanding and refinish hardwood floors?
4. How long it will take before I can move back in?
5. Can Me and My family stay in my home every day during the hardwood floor refinishing?

1. How much is the cost per sqft for refinish wood floors?

Is hard to arrive at a solid figure for anyone as rates vary from one region to another and within your geographical area. We find this should be useful for those that need a general idea or ballpark guesstimate to work with. If you reside in high cost of living regions will see higher labor rates than rural areas of the United States.

If you want to find out the easy way to calculate how much do you need to paid to refinish wood floors, stain, and replaces wood you can go to our "Hardwood floor refinish calculator" here you will type the sqft of the hardwood floor that you want to have refinish or buffing, you select the quality of the finish that you want, and type the sqft or replaces if you have any.

The average price to Refinish wood floors In California is from $1.99 / $2.99 per sqft using 3 coats of regular oil base finish for stain you need to add extra $0.19 / $0.99 per sqft. Replaces in California are from $8.00 / $16.00 per sqft depends of the type of hardwood floor you have. if you want better finish or water based products you looking to paid from $2.89 per sqft to $4.25 using 3 coats of a better product like, Bona Mega, Bona Traffic.

The average for Usa to refinish hardwood floors is from $1.69 to $3.25 per sqft using 3 coats of oil base, and can go as much as $5.00 pers qft for a high quality product like Bona Traffic, Mega Bona Finish, Pacific Strong, or aluminum oxide finishes. the average price for replace hardwood floors in the USA is from $4.99 per sqft and go as much as $19.99 per sqft depends of the wood floor grade you have and if the wood is imported or local.

2. Is refinish my wood floors a very dusty project?

Floors In California use the latest most recent equipment and tecniques available in the flooring industry. Floors In california uses a dustless Wood floor sanding process, which means our Hardwood floor sanders vacuum as they are sanding your wood floors, so the process is very clean.

Most of the Hardwood floor refinishing Companies use this system, but if don't have this system , then Refinish wood floors can be a very dusty project, If is not way to get a dustless equipment have you flooring contractor to cover the walls, and furniture with plastic sheeds, make sure you cover all important and valuable stuff, even with a dustless hardwood floor refinish system will be a minimum wood dust Particles.

Hardwood floor refinish with a dustless system is cleaner that the regular floor sanding procedure, but still never mean "DUST FREE" so be prepare.

3. How long it will take to Refinish my wood floors?

Usually if you hardwood floor refinish project is a normal job will take anywhere from 2 to 7 days, the time depends on the hardwood floor condition, the kind of finih that you are going to use, remember each oil base coating need from 8 to 18 hours to dry, water base need only from 3 to 6 hours to dry per coat, so using water base will garranty that you job will be finish faster.

Floors In California will take 3/4 days if you refinish your wood floors with an oil base and 2/3 if you pick a water base.

4. How long I need to wait before I can move back in after the wood sanding and re-coat is complete?

The floor will be dry by the touch if you choose a oil base in about 8 hours after the flooring guys finish, you can step on this floors with not problems, the whole curing process for and oil base is about 3 weeks, this mean that the floors is yet dry if you touch it, and you can have furniture on it but the finish still breathing, so do not cover the floors with rugs, plastic, on any othe material during the curing time, if you need to move heavy furnitu make sure you lift the item and in this drying period do not push heavy items.

If you choose to refinishing your wood floors with an water base coating, then you have to wait before you can walk on the floors about 5 hour after the flooring guys leave your property, a water base finish will be totally cure in about 4/6 days after finish.

5. can I sleep in my house with my family during the hardwood floor refinish and re-coating process?

If you are refinish your wood floors with and oil based coating we will recomend that you and your Family "Dont sleep in the property" the smell is very strong and the fumes are not good for you besides you can't steps on the floor.

If you can't stay out of the house during the sanding and refinish process , we recomend that you use a water base product with very low VOC componets like EON 70 from Bona Kemy, yes you need to speend more for this finish , but you will be saving the money from the hotel, and dinning out.

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If you need help and want to learn everything about Hardwood floor refinish and try and do the refinish your self then go to our Hardwood floor refinish guide this is a step by step guide that will show you how to refinish wood floors just like us.