Ashburns Custom Floors

Description of Work: I bought a home built in 1947 in Bryson City, North Carolina. The home had been used as a rental since the 1970's. Layers of tile on top of linoleum on top of tile had been installed in the kitchen. Marvin Ashburn refinished my original hardwood kitchen floors to their former GLORY!! Marvin is a true artist, he loves wood and works magic with a sander. He's reliable, a rare character trait in a tradesmen but he actually arrives when he is scheduled and finishes when scheduled. He's extremely knowledgeable, which is most helpful when deciding timing of refinishing given variations in temperature and humidity in our area. He's also fair and worth every penny you'll spend.

Description of Work: sanded and refinished floors.

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Description of Work: Refinished 93 year old heart pine floors in entire house. Really like that Marvin gives you options with different price points. The floors look fantastic and will last for many more years.

Description of Work: The crew was very good at cleaning up as hey went. Very important for floor refinishing. They sanded and finished the flooring with an oil based poly that turned out great. They also matched floor woods perfectly between thresholds. It was a satin finish on red oak floors that were 70+ years old. I would recommend them to anyone.

Description of Work: Ashburns Custom Floors did sanding and finishing of my floors.

Description of Work: I last used Ashburns Custom Floors in September of 2011 for hardwood flooring and sanding and refinishing.

Description of Work: I used Ashburns Custom Floors to rip out the floor.

Description of Work: Sanded, stained and refinished 1300 square feet of hardwood floors.

Description of Work: Floor installation.

Description of Work: Resurfacing floors, removed stains from wood floors, sanded, buffed, stained, seccated with high traffic, polished stairs and re-stained the stairs.

Description of Work: Installed new oak hardwood floor. Refinished all flooring. Coordination with other work going on.

Description of Work: Sanded - refinished 100 + yr old floors in a cabin.

Description of Work: Company refinished approximately 550 sq ft of hardwood floors. .

Description of Work: Marvin Ashburn was recommended by The Arch, the local vendor of the EcoTimber. This project was in the planning and research stage for over 7 years. We liked the high ratings given the last 2 years to this product by the leading consumer magazine. EcoTimber is a both a solid and engineered / laminate bamboo flooring; it emits very little pollutants and regrows quickly and is therefore a renewable wood source. We have two large ex-racing greyhounds; their size, weight and gangly legs can easily scratch flooring. The EcoTimber, while not impervious to their nail damage, has held up extremely well. The EcoTimber flooring is very hard and splinters easily. From my research, we decided that its installation required an bamboo experienced professional. After consideration of several carpenters, we chose Marvin Asburn of Ashburn's Custom Floors. The new wood was laid in five areas...the bedroom hallway, the family room, the adjoining kitchen, the foyer, and a basement stair landing. Marvin ripped out our old carpeting, the kitchen linoleum tiles and the foyer parquet. Our stairway and adjacent stair rail was dated and not up to current code so that was removed and replaced by Marvin and his "stair specialist" associate. He disposed of all discarded debris. We provided most of the materials (flooring, underlayment patch, mouldings, spindles, newels, stair treads, stain.) The uneven underlayment was also leveled; one 'soft' spot was removed and replaced with new underlayment. Having a ranch with a 'daylight' basement, we opted to have the flooring nailed wherever possible. The small basement level stair landing was "floated" / glued. The job went smoothly and the few glitches were remedied by Marvin without any problem. All our removed baseboard mouldings were replaced; the original, removed ones were damaged and caked with old paint. The "glitches": -Because EcoTimber does not make coordinating bamboo stair treads, we used oak to replace the pine 2 X 12 we uncovered beneath the old stair carpeting. The wood grains and colors of oak and our bamboo did not match. Although we could not remedy the wood grain, Marvin mixed and matched stains and finishes to closely resemble the tones of the new flooring. It took an entire weekend to completely redo the stairs (replacement of stringers, risers and treads) and the small protective stair rail at the top edge. Marvin advised us to shop at some of the local salvage stores for the stair spindles and newels; we saved some money this way. -Although the floor was nailed in the living areas, the perimeter pieces are glued. Some glue oozed up and was trekked onto the main sections of the finished floor. Although he was able to remove the glue, the finish / shine was mottled. Marvin sealed our floor with two coats of Bona Kemi "Traffic" giving an even shine throughout floor. -A plank at the top of the stairs was noticeably upraised at one point. Marvin secured it to the floor by drilling holes through the wood, countersinking screws and then hiding the holes with plugs made from remnant flooring. This clever repair is virtually unnoticeable. -Our home was built in 1983 and has the original oak kitchen cabinets. Marvin replaced the worn cabinet kickboards with pieces of our new flooring; it all matches and is easy to keep clean. -Marvin made custom thresholds out of the flooring. He had carpet installers come and tack the carpet under his new pieces.

Description of Work: Sanded & refinished wood floors in 2 stages (2010 & 2011) covering 4000 sq feet overall.

Description of Work: Oak floor sand and refinish - whole house.

Description of Work: Buffing heart of pine floors, varnishing

Description of Work: I have used this company for two projects. In April 2006 he repaired and refinished the hardwood floors in my house. In August 2007 I did not hesitate for a minute to have him return to install hardwood flooring in a room being renovated.