The choice for hardwood flooring
There’s nothing quite as fulfilling as brand new hardwood flooring and many homeowners work towards this goal. If that is where you’ve found yourself, we’d like to arm you with some great information about the material and how you can make the most of it in your home.
Of course, it offers a timeless elegance and a classic appeal that suits any interior design scheme while also offering excellent stability and durability in even the busiest areas. These floors are also much easier to personalize than you might think and very easy to care for once installed.
Reasons to choose hardwood floors
Hardwood flooring is known for its amazing lifespan, which can easily reach 100 years or more if properly installed and maintained. As an all-natural resource, it’s created to stand up to the elements and then treated with sealant and a great finish to protect further against daily wear.
You'll get to personalize these floors through selecting your wood species, stain color, and finish. The species is probably the most important choice, as some are hard and others much softer. For busy areas of your home, choose the hardest species you can that still fits in your budget and your specific needs.
Meet our master hardwood technician
Geneva Flooring uses one of San Diego’s finest hardwood craftsmen to ensure that our client’s floors are flawless. Dave is our full-time master hardwood refinishing technician who brings his 20+ years of experience and his own dustless sanding equipment to every job. Refinishing is truly his specialty. He grew up in a family business that taught him a vast understanding of stains and finishes, and how they react and are expressed with different wood species. In less common applications, we have seen Dave excel where others have failed. His talent is un-paralleled and the results are impeccable.
What to expect ?
Refinishing your floors can be a big project because all connecting floors need to be done at once. We will help you through the process as much as we can by moving furniture, hanging protective plastic on your cabinets, and communicating with you when it is safe to enter the house so that you may stay on site and not worry about the extra expense of hotel rooms.
All floors can be re-coated. This takes out all of the scratches and gives the finish a deep cleaning. We will use the appropriate finish according to the floor you bought to give it a face lift. If there is deeper damage, some floors can be sanded down to fresh wood. At that time, we can add a new stain color or just finish them natural. This cannot be done on distressed floors or floors without enough wear layer (which is the case with many engineered floors). It takes three full sanding s to give you a nice smooth surface to start re coating. We use three coats of commercially-rated, environmentally-friendly urethane to seal and protect your floors. This water-based finish is the longest lasting on the market.
Our preferred high quality products are Basic Coatings and Bona. We will evaluate your floor on site and help you select the finish that is right for you. There are 4 shine level options to choose from, however, most clients commonly choose the middle two options of satin or semi-gloss. Some floors require oils; we can speak to you about those options when we ascertain your needs.
If you’re looking for an excellent wood or stone look floor covering for your home, laminate can meet the need in a variety of spaces. With an excellent variety of appearances in these two looks, you're sure to find a match, no matter your décor.
Constructed of a variety of layers, it provides great stability and protection. But for even more resistance to daily wear and some level of abuse, this material also has a topcoat that protects against stains, scratches, scuffs, and more, so your floors look newer longer.
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