Floor Refinishing Service in Dover, DE

Dover has a lot of old houses with real wood under the carpet, and central Delaware's humidity is hard on a finish long before it is hard on the timber. That is why so many floors that look finished are simply due a sand and three coats.

The machines run on vacuums so the house stays livable, the sanding goes through the grits in order so no scratch pattern survives into the stain, and the finish is a commercial build that takes real traffic. Start with hardwood floor refinishing.

There is a right order to it and it does not bend. The floor is sanded coarse to fine so every pass removes the scratch pattern the one before left, because a skipped grit shows up the second the stain goes on and cannot be fixed without starting again. Edges and corners get their own machines and, where a radiator or a stair stringer is in the way, a scraper and hand work. Then stain if you are changing the color, then three coats with an abrasive pass between them so each one keys into the last. The National Wood Flooring Association publishes the guidelines this follows, and they are the reason a floor done properly still looks right in ten years.

Central Delaware makes it worth doing. The ground here is flat with a shallow water table, crawl spaces stay humid, and boards take that moisture up and move with it, which is hard on a finish long before it is hard on the timber. That is why so many floors around Dover look finished when the wood under them is barely touched. Mike checks how much is left above the tongue before anything starts, and tells you straight if the answer is not enough.