Woodsmith Hardwood Floors Ltd
Hardwood Floor Refinishing
Our Services
Hardwood Floor Refinishing | Repairing Hardwood Floors
Staining Hardwood Floors | Stair Refinishing | Carpet Removal
Hardwood Floor Refinishing
We’re all very fortunate here in Vancouver to have so many houses filled with gorgeous hardwood floors. Most houses more than 10 to 20 years old here have them by default.
Obviously, as you’re here on our website, you too have hardwood floors in your home and you’re looking to spruce them up.
We specialize in bringing Vancouver’s old, tired and worn hardwood floors back to the beautiful floors they once were and in many cases, even better than they were originally. We’d be more than happy to take a look at your floors for you and see what we can do to make them look great again.
We have written some information on this subject you may be interested in reading:
• As you can imagine, there’s a lot involved in refinishing hardwood floors. You can download our guide: “The Hardwood Floor Refinishing Process – The 21 Steps” which shows you the step by step process we use. This is a must read for those that like to know all the intimate details.
• You may be wondering about the different types of finishes that are available and what finish systems we use and recommend. Our article: “How to Choose a Hardwood Floor Finish that’s Right for You” will answer those very important questions for you.
You can get them both at the Downloadable Info Sheets page.
Repairing Hardwood Floors
Your hardwood floors may have areas with water damage, walls that have
been re-located, holes in the floor, pet urine stains, pot plant stains,
damaged boards, badly attempted previous repairs or any other type of damage.
If you have areas needing repairing, we have the experience to do it.
We take great pride in our repair service. We have specialized tools that
are able to cut boards out even in the middle of a room – including
¾ inch tongue and groove fir – without having to remove the
surrounding boards. Once they are completed, the repaired areas will be
virtually invisible to the untrained eye and will look like they were part
of the original floor all along.
We try extremely hard to find flooring from the same era as your home in order to match it as close to your original flooring as possible. This can be a challenge for older homes in Vancouver, especially ones with fir floors, so we collect and carefully store reclaimed vintage flooring from houses being demolished just for this purpose.
You may want to read the answers to the questions below that can be found in the Frequently Asked Questions section.
Can areas of the floor with water damage be repaired?
Can anything be done about the deep scratches in my floor?
Staining Hardwood Floors
If you want to add color, richness, character and depth to your floors,
then you may want to consider having your floors stained.
Many homes in Vancouver have fir or oak hardwood floors originally installed.
There’s a good chance that you too have oak or fir or even both throughout
your home. Depending on your taste, you may or may not like the way they
naturally look. Staining them is a great way to change the look of your
floors without having to go through the costly procedure of removing them
and installing a naturally darker species of flooring.
Staining is the most challenging part of hardwood floor refinishing. First,
because a lot can go wrong if you don’t know what you are doing and
secondly because it involves a lot more time and painstaking, detailed effort.
We’re extremely proud of the results we consistently achieve with
our stained floors. You will be too if you decide to go this route.
We have some additional information on this subject you may be interested in reading:
• Our guide: “Staining Hardwood Floors – What is involved?” will take you through the procedure we use to create these stunning floors.
You can get it at the Downloadable Info Sheets page.
Stair Refinishing
Many of the older homes here in Vancouver have gorgeous wood staircases just waiting to be spruced up.
A lot of them, especially in the older homes, will have beautiful quarter sawn old growth fir treads. These treads sand up looking spectacular. The good thing about these old treads is that they are quite thick so even if there is damage and extensive wear from years of use, they will still most likely come out looking amazing.
Because there is so much hand work involved, sanding and refinishing stairs is one of the most challenging aspects of floor refinishing. We’ve refinished a great amount of staircases over the years and have a detailed system to ensure your stairs will turn out looking amazing as well.
We only refinish treads and in some cases risers. The stringers, balusters and handrails are not part of a floor refinisher’s trade. We can recommend a company that specializes in this type of refinishing if you give us a call.
We have some additional information on this subject you may be interested in reading:
• Our guide - “Refinishing Stairs – What steps are involved?” will answer all the questions you have about refinishing stairs including what choices you have for the treatment of your risers.
You can get it at the Downloadable Info Sheets page.
Carpet Removal
Many houses throughout the Vancouver area were covered in carpet in the 60’s, 70’s and 80’s. As you might expect from a hardwood floor refinishing company, we’re not particularly fond of carpet, especially cheap carpet that’s covering beautiful, vintage hardwood floors.
What where some people thinking?
Nothing gives us greater pleasure than ripping into old carpet, cutting it into pieces and throwing it away.
Actually carpet does have its place. If you have some of that beautiful,
colorful old shag covering a goldmine of hardwood underneath, be thankful.
It’s probably protected your floors from years and years of damage.
See...carpet is good for something.
But before we can bring those beautiful floors hiding under your carpet
back to life, the carpet will need to be removed.
You can ask us to do this for you, or if you like, choose to tackle this project yourself.
We have some additional information on this subject you may be interested in reading:
• Our guide: “How to Remove Carpet – Without Damaging Your Hardwood Floors” gives detailed information to help you with this project if you decide to do it yourself.
You can get it at the Downloadable Info Sheets page.