Hardwood Floor Refinishing and Installation in Roswell, GA
Skilled Work on Roswell's Older Floors
TriArt refinishes, installs, and repairs hardwood floors throughout Roswell, from the historic district to the newer subdivisions east of the river. Wood floors and stairs only, with one crew from first grit to final coat.
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Sanding and Refinishing Roswell's Older Floors
Thickness measured before quoting
Older floors need to be assessed before they are quoted, not after. We measure remaining thickness above the tongue, check whether nail heads are showing, and look at how the boards meet the walls and doorways. A floor that has already been sanded twice may have one pass left, or none, and knowing that before the drum starts is the difference between a good outcome and an expensive problem.
Where there is enough material to work with, the process is the same as anywhere: three grits down to bare wood, hand work at the edges and around the returns, stain sampled on your own floor, then three coats of finish. Where there is not, a professional floor cleaning and recoating often gets most of the improvement for a fraction of the cost and takes a day rather than a week.
Standard sanding and refinishing runs $3.00 to $4.00 per square foot. Furniture returns 48 to 72 hours after the final coat.
Installing New Hardwood in Roswell Homes
Old boards, fresh material
New floors in Roswell usually go into one of two situations: an addition or renovation on an older home, or a straightforward replacement in a newer one. The older case is the harder one, because the new wood has to meet floors that have been ageing for fifty or eighty years.
Matching into original heart pine or narrow-strip oak is genuinely difficult and we would rather set the expectation honestly than promise an invisible seam. Sometimes the right answer is sourcing reclaimed material of the same era. Sometimes it is running the new floor to a natural break at a doorway and letting the two coexist. Occasionally it is refinishing everything together so the whole level cures to one color.
For new construction and full replacements the usual rules apply: moisture testing first, acclimation in the house, solid above grade over wood subfloor. See installing new hardwood for the full specification.
Hardwood Flooring Projects Across Our Service Area
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The Three Jobs We Do Most in Roswell
Every era on one map
Widest range of building eras in the service area. Roswell is the page that demonstrates competence with old floors.
Pre-war heart pine and narrow-strip oak
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Original floors in the historic district and the older streets around it. These need species identification before anything else, because heart pine sands and takes stain very differently from oak. Board sourcing for repairs is the constraint. Matching century-old material means finding reclaimed stock of the right width and cut, not buying new.
Mid-century ranch oak, often under carpet
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A large share of Roswell's 1950s to 1970s ranches still have their original oak sitting under carpet that has been down for decades. Pulling it up usually reveals a floor in better shape than the homeowner expected, with tack-strip damage confined to the perimeter where trim will cover it.
Floors that have been sanded before
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The practical limit on a solid floor is not age, it is remaining thickness. We check for exposed nail heads and gaps at the tongue before recommending a sand. Where a floor is genuinely at the end, we say so. Replacing it is a better investment than taking one more pass and ruining it.
What Roswell Homeowners Say About TriArt
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Where We Work Across Roswell
We work across every Roswell neighborhood. These are the areas our crews are in most often, with the work we are usually called for in each:
Questions Roswell Homeowners Ask
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My Roswell home has original heart pine. Can it be refinished?
Usually yes, and heart pine refinishes beautifully. It is softer than oak, so it sands differently and shows dents more readily, and it takes stain unevenly enough that we generally recommend a clear or very light finish to let the grain do the work. We assess remaining thickness before quoting.
How do I know if my floor has already been sanded too many times?
The clearest signs are nail heads showing at the surface and visible gaps where the tongue sits in the groove. Both mean the floor has lost too much material to take another pass safely. We measure during the estimate and will tell you plainly if replacement is the better spend.
Can you match new wood into my original floors?
Sometimes closely, sometimes not. Century-old wood has oxidized and shifted color in ways new material has not, and matching depends on species, width, and cut. Where a seamless match is unrealistic we will say so and suggest running the new floor to a natural break instead.
What is the difference between refinishing and a recoat?
Refinishing sands to bare wood and rebuilds the finish completely. A recoat abrades the existing finish and adds one fresh coat without removing it. Recoating costs less and takes a day, but it only works if the finish is intact. It cannot fix scratches that have reached the wood.
How long does the whole project take?
Most Roswell projects run four to six days from prep to final coat, longer if you are changing stain color, since stain needs its own drying stage. Older floors needing board repairs first can run longer. We give a specific schedule in the written quote.
Do you handle repairs as well as refinishing?
Yes, and on older floors the two usually go together. Loose boards, gaps, and damaged planks get addressed before sanding, because sanding over a problem locks it in under the new finish. See our repairing damaged boards for what that covers.
Can the heart pine in a historic Roswell home be refinished?
Usually yes, and it refinishes beautifully. Heart pine is softer than oak, so it sands differently and shows dents more readily, and it takes stain unevenly enough that we generally recommend a clear or very light finish and let the grain carry the room.
