Most flooring companies bill dust extraction as an extra. On every Belmont, MA job it is already in the price. And if you need to stay in the house while we coat, Bona Traffic HD has your furniture back in three days, where an oil-based finish keeps you out for fourteen.
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Weles refinishes Belmont floors for $5 to $9 per square foot. A sound floor under a clear finish sits near the bottom of that range. Five of our Belmont jobs further down this page show what those choices look like on real floors, from old bordered boards brought up to amber to red oak taken from orange to gray-brown.
Three in ten Belmont homes are units in a two-family house. If someone lives on the other floor, pick the finish with them in mind. A water-based finish lets both households stay put while it goes on. Prefinished boards, like the Superior red oak on one of the landings below, bring no finish into the house at all. Oil-based finish is the one that empties the whole building for the coating days.
Belmont's housing is old: 57% of its homes were built in 1939 or earlier. Small gaps between old boards are normal, because a house's humidity changes with the seasons and solid wood moves with it. Wide splits, cupped boards or buckling are different: they point to a moisture or installation problem, and they change what the job needs.
About a third of Belmont homes are rented. Between tenants, a floor whose finish is dull but not worn through can often take a screen and recoat instead of a full sanding. The color stays exactly as it was, which matters when the rest of the unit is not being touched.
Finished floors from the Belmont, MA area and beyond, photographed on the job rather than bought from a stock library. Refinishing, new installation and stair work.
See the wood species in person or online. You can browse the showroom online or visit us at 800 Boylston St, Chestnut Hill, MA 02467.
Our own photographs, taken on site.
Belmont Refinishing
The red oak here had turned orange next to the cherry kitchen cabinets. We sanded it to bare wood from the foyer through the kitchen and family room, stained it Driftwood and Antique Brown, and sealed it with Bona Traffic HD Satin, so the floor is now one gray-brown tone under the white trim.
Belmont Refinishing
The old floors in these rooms have a border of boards along the walls, and in the front room it bends with the bay window. We sanded them back to bare wood, sealed them with Loba Intensive and finished them with Bona Traffic HD Satin, which took the boards to a warm amber without hiding the grain.
Belmont Refinishing
This red oak had a glossy finish that had gone yellow-orange in the open living room, the kitchen, the bedrooms and on the stair landing. After sanding to bare wood, one coat of Bona NordicSeal took the color toward pale and neutral, and two coats of Bona Mega One Satin went on top.
Belmont Installation
The upstairs landing and the office under the eaves were down to bare AdvanTech subfloor when we started. We laid 2 1/4 inch prefinished Superior red oak in Praline as one run from the hallway into the office and fitted it to the stained nosing around the stairwell. The boards come finished from the mill, so nothing was sanded or coated in the house.
Belmont Installation
In the room with the wood stove, we glued down 7 1/2 inch engineered bamboo planks across 200 square feet, from the French doors to the TV wall, and fitted them around the stove's hearth pad.
Two of the Belmont floors below started as red oak that had turned orange, and we took them in opposite directions. On the first, stain did the work: Driftwood and Antique Brown together gave the foyer, kitchen and family room one gray-brown tone. Stain colors can be mixed, so you are not limited to one shade off the chart. On the second, there was no stain at all. One coat of Bona NordicSeal under two coats of Mega One Satin took the same kind of oak pale and neutral.
Both jobs ended in water-based finish, so the pale oak on the second one will not drift back toward yellow. We test the color on your own boards before any coat goes on, and the stain page shows the range.
The bordered floor in the bay-window house got a different system: Loba Intensive as the sealer, then Bona Traffic HD Satin, which warmed the boards to amber and left the grain in plain sight. Weles is certified by Loba, Bona, Lagler, Wakol and American Sanders.
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The two installs on this page are two different kinds of floor. Upstairs, over AdvanTech subfloor panels, we laid 2 1/4 inch prefinished red oak on the landing and into the office. The boards come finished from the mill, so nothing is sanded or coated in the house and there is no finish to dry before the rooms go back into use. In the sitting room with the wood stove, we glued 7 1/2 inch engineered bamboo planks down across 200 square feet. Engineered boards are the right choice over concrete that has been checked and approved, and in rooms where solid wood would move too much.
Not every tired floor needs to come out. When a section has rotted or taken water, we cut out and replace just that section, then refinish the room so it reads as one floor.
Installation is priced in two parts. At $3 to $10 per square foot for labor, a 200 square foot room like the bamboo job costs $600 to $2,000 before the wood, which is priced on its own line. Our installation page explains the choice between solid and engineered.
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Species, grades and finishes from the Chestnut Hill showroom
We stock and source the species most Massachusetts floors are built from: red oak, white oak, maple, ash, birch and walnut, plus the stains, adhesives and finishes that go with them. Samples are in the showroom at 800 Boylston St, and we sell to homeowners, builders and other flooring contractors.
Most homes in the Belmont, MA area built between roughly 1900 and 1960 have 2¼″ plainsawn red oak strip. If you are repairing or extending a floor rather than replacing it, width, species and cut all have to line up, or the new wood will always read as a patch. Bring in a loose board or an offcut and we will match it against stock.
The products page goes further into grades, how each species behaves underfoot, and when engineered board or luxury vinyl is the better call than solid wood.
Browse productsSquare footage and service type are enough to price the job. You get a number back within one business day, and 0% financing is available for up to 12 months.
Request Free EstimateEvery job uses dustless sanding, with HEPA extraction that keeps roughly 90 to 95% of the dust out of the rest of the house. We check moisture before fastening a board and hold the subfloor-to-wood difference inside 4%. Seven crews run the work, and a project manager answers seven days a week.
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FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTION
Weles charges $5 to $9 per square foot in Belmont, and 700 square feet would run $3,500 to $6,300. Where your floor lands depends on its condition and on the look you want: a clear finish on sound boards costs less than stain or board repairs. The figure goes into a written estimate after we see the floor, and it changes only if you add work.
Most jobs take a few working days. Machine sanding runs over days 1 to 3, with edges and stairs done by hand. Finish coats go on over days 2 to 4, and the site is cleaned at the end of each day. On the last day we walk the floor with you. Furniture waits 3 to 14 days after that, depending on the finish you chose.
Yes, as long as there is enough solid wood left to sand. Take the same 700 square feet: refinishing costs $3,500 to $6,300, while new wood at $11 to $25 or more per square foot installed, the range in our cost guide, starts at $7,700. A solid hardwood floor can be sanded and refinished several times, so age alone is no reason to replace it. Rot, severe water damage and boards too thin for another pass are.
Yes, with a water-based finish. Bona Traffic HD at 150 VOC and Mega One at 200 both let people stay in the house while they go on. With oil-based Bona Woodline, at 700 VOC, the family in the other unit would have to move out for the coating days too. Tell us which stairs and halls are shared, and we cover them with plastic film as well.
No. Belmont has four local historic districts: Pleasant Street, Common Street, Richardson Farm and Thaddeus Frost House. The Historic District Commission reviews exterior alterations visible from a public way. Work on the floors inside your house is not part of that review. A porch floor you can see from the street is different: an exterior change like that needs a Certificate of Appropriateness before work starts.
Hairline gaps that open in February and close by June are seasonal. A heated New England house falls from 50 to 60 percent humidity in summer to 20 to 30 in winter, and solid oak shrinks with it. A gap still open in July is worth a call.
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Cupped boards that stayed nailed down usually flatten once the subfloor dries to within 4 percent of the flooring, which takes weeks rather than days. Buckled boards are replaced. Sanding too early turns cupping into crowning.
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With a water-based finish you stay home. Bona Traffic HD is 150 g/L VOC, dries in one to two hours a coat, and takes furniture after three days. Oil-based Woodline needs 14 days and an empty house.
Read the full guideWeles works across New England from two locations, with Greater Boston as home ground. Belmont, MA is served from the showroom at 800 Boylston Street in Chestnut Hill and from the Ashland base, and one of three project managers picks up seven days a week. The map shows the Chestnut Hill showroom, where the plank stock and finish samples are kept.
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