Restore the natural beauty of your wood floors with our refinishing expertise, leaving them gleaming and polished. What people usually mean by "the floor needs redoing" is that the finish on top of the wood has worn through in the traffic lanes — and the finish, not the wood, is what we can replace without touching the boards at all.
That distinction decides the cost, the disruption and how many times the floor can be done again in its lifetime. A board can only be sanded so many times before there is not enough wood left above the tongue, so a recoat where a recoat will do is not the cheap option, it is the correct one.
Screen and recoat
Screening abrades the existing finish just enough to key it, taking out minor scratches and surface imperfections, and a fresh layer of polyurethane goes over the top. It restores the shine and the protection without removing any wood, there is very little dust, and most rooms are back in use quickly.
This is the right answer whenever the damage is in the finish rather than in the wood — which, on a floor that has been maintained, it usually is. Wood floors generally want this every three to five years, and sooner in high-traffic areas or a busy household.
Full sand and refinish
Where scratches have gone through into the wood, where there is water staining, or where the boards have been coated with something that will not take a recoat, the floor has to be sanded back to bare wood and built up again. That takes longer and makes more mess, and it is the only thing that will genuinely remove deep damage.
Most refinishing projects are completed in a day or two, depending on the size of the floor and how long the polyurethane needs to dry between coats. We will tell you at the estimate which of the two your floor needs, and why.
Wood floors and water
A hardwood floor that has taken water is a race, not a repair. Boards cup as they absorb moisture from underneath and can crown later as they dry out unevenly, and a floor that is dried properly in the first week is very often savable when the same floor left for a month is not.
Because we do both the drying and the refinishing, a wood floor damaged in a water loss does not have to be handed between two companies with two opinions. We dry it, monitor it to a stable moisture content, and then refinish it. See our water damage restoration service for what the drying side involves.
Where we work
High Tech provides hardwood floor refinishing services across Butte County, California — Oroville, Chico, Paradise, Palermo, Durham, Gridley, and Biggs — and just over the county line in Marysville. See every area we serve.