Hardwood Floor Specialist LLC

Description of Work: Repair and refinish hardwood floors

Description of Work: Refinish hardwood floors

Description of Work: Repari hardwood floors

Description of Work: complete house floor refinishing

Description of Work: A higher grade than A+

Description of Work: Refinish classic oak floors

Description of Work: refinishing hardwood floors

Description of Work: Water damaged engineered hardwood flooring repair

Description of Work: Wood floor refinished due to a water leak under sink

Description of Work: We recently refinished our hardwood floors in our Pearl District condo (condo tower with commercial/HOA requirements). There was some water damage where boards needed to be replaced and matched effectively as well as refinishing the flooring for the entire unit.

Description of Work: Remove Decades-Old Vinyl Tile and Adhesive from Wood Floor

Description of Work: Hardwood floor installed with prep and complete finish of project.

Description of Work: Refinished Brazilian Cherry hardwood floors

Description of Work: Whole house floor refinish

Description of Work: Repair to damaged floor

Description of Work: Approximately 1500 SQFT refinished Hardwood Floors

Description of Work: Refinishing my hardwood floors

Description of Work: My living room floor had been covered with carpeting for about 40 years. When we ripped it up I found serious water damage had occurred by the bay windows. The patch job was a combination of press board and plywood, and very badly executed. I needed an expert to restore and refinish the hardwood floors that were also laden with lead paint.

Description of Work: I was originally going to have original fir floors in my 1893 Victorian refinished. Unfortunately, they'd been damaged when insulation was blown in, and the planks were an odd size and therefore it was difficult to find replacement boards. Sergey called around and when he couldn't find my odd size, offered to craft planks from larger planks of the same type. He quoted me for the work and then suggested I might consider new bamboo floors. He wound up installing new stranded bamboo floors in my entire 2nd floor unit (other than kitchen and baths).

Description of Work: We needed to refinish some very beat up old fir floors in a commercial/retail establishment.

Description of Work: We have a 110 year old house with the original fir floors that had been hidden under carpet, paint, marmoleum tiles, and/or veneer oak flooring for decades that needed to be refinished. Unsure of the shape they were in we chose to start by refinishing one room that was carpeted since it was the easiest to uncover. We called Sergey who promptly came out walked us through the process, and was very straightforward with what he may uncover with the floor given the wood type, age, and nail holes from the old carpet tack strips. We were confident in his knowledge of old fir and scheduled the work to be done. We were thrilled with the results! Three years later when we were ready to do the rest of the first floor we called him again. We were perfectly okay to pay the $49 estimate fee again (it goes toward the cost of the job) because the remaining wood floors needed a lot of repairs and we didn’t know if they were salvageable; his knowledge and honest option is worth $49. We chose to move forward with repairs and refinishing the stairwell treads and repairs and refinishing the entire first floor, including the room he originally did so we could use a different final finish. This was a big job so we broke it into two stages; first the stirs, then the rest. There was one stair tread that a the entire front was cracked and either needed replacing; which would mean practically disassembling a lot given the way the stairs were built and that each tread is a single piece of 110-year-old fir. Sergey was able to repair the tread in place without damaging any of the surrounding areas. He even fixes another stair that was at risk of cracking at no extra cost. For phase two, the remainder of the first floor, there were a lot of repairs needed as walls had been moved over time and covered up and some boards were too damaged to save. Given the age of the wood floors it was going to be very hard to find replacement fir that had the same vertical grain and coloring. We purchased a few different lots of salvaged wood and Sergey taught us how to clean and prep the wood for installation (saving his time and our money), and how to sort the wood for grain type and quality. Sergey used the salvaged wood we found and some floor pieces we saved from another part of the house to thread them into the floor prior to refinishing. This was tricky given many of the areas were very visible or in doorways, and that the wood he had to work around was so old and dry it cracks if you try to remove it. It took five straight days to do the repairs and the result is repairs you would know were. Sergey matched the wood coloring, graining, and even age marks so well the repairs blend in perfectly with the original wood. Another three-and-a-half days of sanding, scraping, and buffing and we have the most gorgeous, and lovingly restored old-growth-fir floors you could ask for. We choose to to the final finish ourselves with a hard-wax oil in stead of a polyurethane finish. We were happy with the polyurethane finish Sergey originally did for us but chose to switch to a hard-wax oil because of the ability to touchup the finish as needed without re-sanding all the floors. Sergey advised us that given the age of the floors, and the remaining thickness of the wood above the tongue and groove, that this would likely be the last refinish possible for these floors. The hard-wax allows us to touchup/repair the finish without sanding the wood again, hopefully allowing us to keep the original floors for another 100 years.

Description of Work: After working with Sergey three years ago we asked him to come give us a quote for some new work that needed to be done that included a lot of repairs on 110-year-old old-growth-fir floors. Speaking only about the repairs (the subsequent refinishing was done beautifully a couple months later), we had a broken stair tread, a cracked stair tread, and six rooms that needed repairs. These repairs weren’t single boards that had a crack, these repairs were due to old gravity-fed air vent holes needing to be closed off, and large areas where there used to be walls but were now long strips without flooring. These areas had to have flooring threaded into them in a way that the repairs weren’t going to be noticeable when refinished. The broken tread on the stairs had the entire front cracked and either needed repair or replacing; which would mean practically disassembling a lot given the way the stairs were built and that each tread is a single piece of 110-year-old fir. Sergey was able to repair the tread in place without damaging any of the surrounding areas. He even fixed another stair that was at risk of cracking at no extra cost. For the larger repairs, finding replacement fir that had the same vertical grain and coloring was going to be difficult. We purchased a few different lots of salvaged wood and Sergey taught us how to clean and prep the wood for installation (saving his time and our money), and how to sort the wood for grain type and quality. Sergey used the salvaged wood we found and some floor pieces we saved from another part of the house to thread them into the repair areas. I wouldn’t trust anyone else to do this work; it’s very risking to repair old fir floors since it is so old and dry it cracks if you try to remove it. It took five straight days to do the repairs and the result is repairs you wouldn’t know were there. Sergey matched the wood coloring, graining, and even age marks so well the repairs blend in perfectly with the original wood.

Description of Work: Sergey refinished the hardwood floors in our living room, dining room, and hallway.

Description of Work: Remove lead paint, sanded, and refinished fir floor in one room of my house.

Description of Work: Sergey repaired two damaged areas in the existing wood flooring then installed matching wood flooring in two adjoining rooms.