Hardwood floors add charm, character, and warmth to your home. It brings a bit of nature into your house and sets an inviting mood throughout your home. Apart from hardwood floors being good for allergies, they are durable. However, they can occasionally get a scratch, gouge, or water damage. We can help you with your repairs.
Types of hardwood repairs that we deal with include:
Scratches
Overly enthusiastic pets, grit on shoes, and heavy items that drop or are moved can leave your precious hardwood floors scratches. If you have light scratches on your precious floor, we will apply a fade applicator solution, which cleans and polishes your floor while making the scratch invisible. If the scratches are deeper, we will sand down your floor to the bottom of the scratch before restraining and refinishing. Call us if you need hardwood refinishing services.
Wear spots
The stain and finish can wear away from your hardwood floors in high-traffic areas. This leaves the wood exposed, creating a patch that is not esthetic appealing to the eyes. In such a scenario, we will sand the affected area extending a little bit beyond the damaged section of the floor by some inches. In addition, we will sand the edges of the board so that when the repair is done, your floor will look more natural. We use fine sandpaper for this type of repair to ensure a smooth glass finish.
Gouges
If the damage on the floor goes beyond superficial scratches to a gouge, we will use fillers to repair the floor before sanding, staining, and applying the finish. Fillers help fill the gouge instead of sand to the bottom of the blemish, which is impractical.
We will then sand and stain the filler once it dries to allow it to blend in.
Water damage
Water is not a good friend to hardwood floors. Hardwood floors are fibrous and porous. This means they can lock water in nodes causing damage to the finish. The water can leave a ring, discolor the wood, cause the hardwood floor to warp, buckle, cup, or grow mold. In case of severely damaged floors, you need hardwood floor replacement for the entire area. Warped boards can cause damages to the adjacent boards necessitating the need to remove or replace them.
Where only some spots have been affected by water damage, we will repair the particular ones with identical wood boards.
Holes
Often, homes of all ages have holes in the floor caused by holes drilled to run cables for TV, telephone wires, or staples and tracks from a previous carpet installation. Board replacement and wood fillers would erase the evidence of these boards. We also use wood fillers to mask the holes to make them less apparent. Our pros have the experience necessary to execute the best repair for your specific situation.
Gaps
Wood floors tend to fluctuate with changes in the weather. The expansion and contraction during the dry and humid weather lead to gaps in the wood plank. Gaps less than the thickness of a time are nothing to worry about since they can go back to normal. However, if your gaps are large, they need tightening with the help of our Alexandria VA hardwood flooring professionals.
Call us for Hardwood floor replacement in Alexandria. Please contact Alexandria Hardwood by phone at 703-940-0198 or online.
Types of hardwood repairs that we deal with include:
Scratches
Overly enthusiastic pets, grit on shoes, and heavy items that drop or are moved can leave your precious hardwood floors scratches. If you have light scratches on your precious floor, we will apply a fade applicator solution, which cleans and polishes your floor while making the scratch invisible. If the scratches are deeper, we will sand down your floor to the bottom of the scratch before restraining and refinishing. Call us if you need hardwood refinishing services.
Wear spots
The stain and finish can wear away from your hardwood floors in high-traffic areas. This leaves the wood exposed, creating a patch that is not esthetic appealing to the eyes. In such a scenario, we will sand the affected area extending a little bit beyond the damaged section of the floor by some inches. In addition, we will sand the edges of the board so that when the repair is done, your floor will look more natural. We use fine sandpaper for this type of repair to ensure a smooth glass finish.
Gouges
If the damage on the floor goes beyond superficial scratches to a gouge, we will use fillers to repair the floor before sanding, staining, and applying the finish. Fillers help fill the gouge instead of sand to the bottom of the blemish, which is impractical.
We will then sand and stain the filler once it dries to allow it to blend in.
Water damage
Water is not a good friend to hardwood floors. Hardwood floors are fibrous and porous. This means they can lock water in nodes causing damage to the finish. The water can leave a ring, discolor the wood, cause the hardwood floor to warp, buckle, cup, or grow mold. In case of severely damaged floors, you need hardwood floor replacement for the entire area. Warped boards can cause damages to the adjacent boards necessitating the need to remove or replace them.
Where only some spots have been affected by water damage, we will repair the particular ones with identical wood boards.
Holes
Often, homes of all ages have holes in the floor caused by holes drilled to run cables for TV, telephone wires, or staples and tracks from a previous carpet installation. Board replacement and wood fillers would erase the evidence of these boards. We also use wood fillers to mask the holes to make them less apparent. Our pros have the experience necessary to execute the best repair for your specific situation.
Gaps
Wood floors tend to fluctuate with changes in the weather. The expansion and contraction during the dry and humid weather lead to gaps in the wood plank. Gaps less than the thickness of a time are nothing to worry about since they can go back to normal. However, if your gaps are large, they need tightening with the help of our Alexandria VA hardwood flooring professionals.
Call us for Hardwood floor replacement in Alexandria. Please contact Alexandria Hardwood by phone at 703-940-0198 or online.