Whether you’re planning a major home renovation or are looking at new flooring options to update your home, there’s a lot to be said for hardwood floor refinishing. Although no flooring is valued better than original hardwood floors, here are nine more compelling reasons to refinish your hardwood floors.
1. Hardwood Floor Refinishing is Customizable
Often, homeowners focus on new flooring because they have a particular trend, shade, or style in mind. However, wood floor restorations offer completely customized options designed to bring out the beauty of your existing hardwood.
Our floor refinishing services offer several tailored options, allowing you to match your existing floors to any look you desire, including:
- Your choice of customized stain mixed right on site, so you can choose the one that feels right in your space
- Antiquing methods that add customized character to your floors, such as scraping, bruising and other techniques
- Removing stains for a unified look
- Sanding your floors to perfection to create a more refined look
- Your choice of finishes, whether it is high gloss or matte
2. Hardwood Floor Refinishing is Cost-Effective
Wood floor restoration is a cost-effective way to get highly customized hardwood floors. You have access to all of the customized characteristics mentioned in reason #1 without the additional installation costs.
Hardwood flooring installation is costly, often coming in much higher than restoration. It makes sense to have Revival Flooring provide a quote so you can compare that to the overall costs of new flooring installation. Chances are you’ll be pleasantly surprised.
3. Hardwood Floor Refinishing is Less Labour Intensive
The process of replacing floors is very labour-intensive. It requires a very loud and time-consuming floor removal process, lifting and tearing apart perfectly sound wood boards. If not done carefully, the damage to the subfloors can cost more money. With wood floor restoration, the tear-out process is skipped.
Although sanding might seem like a far messier method, our professional service limits the amount of dust produced.
4. Hardwood Floor Refinishing is Eco-friendly
The waste produced from home renovations has a very negative impact on the environment. Of course, you can carefully remove and preserve old flooring to sell for reuse or donation to charities such as ReStore and Habitat for Humanity.
However, that costs money that is better spent on restoring your existing floors. By refinishing your wood floors, you avoid the cost and damage of replacing your hardwood floors, offering a very eco-friendly option that avoids a whole world of environmental woes, including:
- Contributing renovation waste to overburdened local landfills
- Cutting down trees for new hardwood floors
- Increased greenhouse gases due to transporting materials to landfill sites, cutting down trees, lumber production, transporting lumber, manufacturing new floors, transporting finished floors to retailers, transporting the new floors to your home, etc.
5. Hardwood Floor Refinishing Retains Home Value
Wood floor restoration helps preserve the character of the home’s original floors, contributing to home value. Character no longer only applies to heritage homes. Today’s homeowners love retro finds such as original 1970s parquets and are excited to find a home sporting its best original features.
People love vintage and retro homes and are willing to pay good money for original flooring unique to the house. Also, remember more homeowners are committed to greener home options, so finding sustainable features such as repurposed or refinished floors offers added appeal.
6. Hardwood Floor Refinishing is a Given for Heritage Homes
If you live in a heritage home, demolishing original features such as character trim, built-ins, and flooring is often considered a renovation “sin.” However, the value the overall look and feel of these floors has on your heritage home should never be underestimated.
Tearing out these floors is only recommended when they are beyond repair, having become too thin from over a century of day-to-day wear and tear. We can assess your floors and recommend replacement when necessary.
7. Hardwood Floor Refinishing Can Help Hide Wear & Tear
Adding special characteristics during wood floor restoration is a clever way to give your floors more life. Bruising and scratches help camouflage the marks and scars of everyday living caused by pets, kids, and ongoing abuse, such as dragging furniture across the floor. Intentional aging is the easiest way to achieve the highly desirable “distressed” look while prolonging the beauty of floors with added character that feels authentic.
8. Hardwood Floor Refinishing for Any Wood Type
Sometimes homeowners worry that softer wood floors, such as pine, are too delicate for refinishing. Our floor refinishing experts can assess your floors and recommend the best approach to protect them during restoration. We can also apply specialty finishes to improve durability for years.
9. Hardwood Floor Refinishing Works Wonders
You might think your floors are hopeless, but you’d be surprised how effective professional, experienced floor refinishing services are. Our team is passionate about helping more homeowners enjoy the benefits of keeping their original floors.
Whether your floors are yellowed or outdated, have minor scratches or deep gouges, or have noticeably uneven wear on the sheen, we can provide customized restoration solutions to enhance their beauty.
Hardwood floor refinishing is the best solution for updating your floors in many situations. Whether you are breathing new life into worn wood floors, creating a whole new look to suit your renovation or design updates, or restoring floors to bring back their original character, floor refinishing services can create a customized flooring option like no other.
Contact the Experts at Revival Flooring
The truly bespoke look of refinished hardwood flooring allows you to maintain the value of your home with all its unique original characteristics. Contact Revival Flooring for more details about our hardwood floor refinishing services. You can call us at (888) 421-3396 or contact us online.