Weles Floors can give a Brighton floor a new color, but only after we sand the old finish off to raw wood. Stain will not soak through an old finish. Sanding and the new finish together cost $4 to $9 per square foot, and a stain moves a job within that range. Once the wood is clean, you pick the color: a Bona DriFast stain, mixed until it suits your trim, or a clear Bona sealer in the Nordic or Natural tone if you want the oak to stay pale.
Half of the homes in Brighton's 02135 ZIP code are in buildings with ten or more units, and three in four are rented, according to Census figures for 02135. Another 29% are in two- to four-unit houses, where your floor is someone else's ceiling. So a floor job here often starts with the management office or the neighbors. Before you book, ask the office which hours it allows for loud work and what it needs from a contractor before a crew comes in. Weles carries general liability and workers' compensation insurance on both refinishing and installation jobs.
Brighton's buildings span more than a century. In the same ZIP code, 39% of homes were built in 1939 or earlier, and about one in eight went up in 2010 or later. If your unit is one of the newer ones, find out whether the floor is solid wood or engineered planks. On engineered planks, the layer of real wood on top decides what we can do: at 2 mm or more it can be sanded with care, and under that we would recoat or replace it. We measure it at the estimate.
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