Hardwood floor refinishing in Altadore
Altadore is half surviving post-war bungalows and half new infill, which means half the floors we see are original oak worth saving and half are recent engineered planks worth checking before anyone sands them.
Two housing stocks, two answers
The redevelopment around Marda Loop has replaced a large share of the original houses, so Altadore now holds two distinct kinds of floor. The bungalows that survived have 1950s and 1960s oak strip, often under carpet, often untouched, and almost always worth refinishing. The infill and the duplexes have engineered or prefinished flooring from the last fifteen or twenty years, where the question is not whether it looks tired but whether the wear layer is thick enough to sand at all.
On the newer floors there is a second wrinkle. Factory prefinished boards usually have a bevelled or micro-bevelled edge and an aluminium oxide coating, and both change the job. Sanding removes the bevels and leaves a flat floor, which some people want and some do not, and the factory coating is hard enough that it dulls paper fast. We tell you what the floor will look like afterwards before you commit to it.
Bigger houses, longer jobs
Altadore infill tends to run hardwood continuously across the whole main floor and up the stairs, so a refinish here is a larger job than the same work in a bungalow, and the staging matters more. Stairs in particular are slow: they are hand work, they cannot be walked on while the finish cures, and in a three-storey infill they are the only route between floors. We plan that with you rather than discovering it on day two.
Ask for a quote and we come and look at what you actually have. Free visit, real number, and a plan that accounts for how you use the house while we are in it.
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Not sure what your floors need? Start with the difference between a recoat and a full refinish, or what actually drives the price.
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