Hardwood Floor Refinishing & Installation Plymouth MA

Between $4,000 and $5,500 before stain, working from the $4 to $5.50 per square foot that sanding and refinishing runs in Plymouth and across the South Shore. A mid-century Cape in Manomet or Cedarville usually has one main floor of red oak strip, which keeps the job inside the $1,500 to $6,500 that most single-floor projects cost; doing every level of a larger house runs $6,000 to $12,000 and up. Stain adds 3 to 5 working hours per 1,000 square feet, and stairs are priced by the tread.

Figure $10 to $22 per square foot installed, so a 1,000-square-foot Pinehills first floor is $10,000 to $22,000 and 2,000 square feet is $20,000 to $44,000. Labor is $3 to $10 of that, straight-lay at the low end and herringbone or chevron at $8 to $10 and above. Because The Pinehills, more than 2,000 homes in about 40 neighborhoods, was built out from the early 2000s, subfloor repair rarely appears on those estimates; in a pre-1950 house near Plymouth Center it adds $2 to $10 per square foot.

For more than half of Plymouth's houses, yes. About 15% of the town's housing units were built before 1939, 12% between 1940 and 1959 and 31% between 1960 and 1979, and federal renovation rules cover any home finished before 1978. The edger runs against baseboards, thresholds and stair risers that may carry old paint, so in a Cordage-era house in North Plymouth the practical questions are how that dust is contained and who cleans the trim afterward. The bidder's lead-safe certificate number belongs on the proposal, not in a phone call.

It stays swollen. A heated house drops to 20 to 30 percent humidity once the furnace runs, but a closed cottage on White Horse Beach sits in the damp air off Cape Cod Bay from October to May, so the boards hold their summer width. The shrinkage comes when the place is opened and heated in spring, and the gaps a year-round house shows in February appear in a cottage in June. Bring the house to living humidity for a week or two before refinishing; a floor sanded flat at its widest will crown later.

Count on 42 to 66 machine hours of sanding at the standard tier, which runs 21 to 33 hours per 1,000 square feet with a Lagler Hummel belt sander, an edger, a buffer and hand scrapers. The large open rooms Pinehills builders favor are where the Lagler Trio planetary sander earns its extra time, lifting the total to 31 to 46 hours per 1,000 square feet and removing the chatter marks a single-head buffer leaves visible in low sun. Water-based coats dry in one to two hours, so finishing adds days, not weeks.

Bona Traffic HD, a two-component water-based finish and the most durable water-based coat on the market, is the one to ask for in a house where beach sand comes in on feet and dogs. Each coat dries in one to two hours, furniture goes back after three days, and at 150 g/L VOC the household stays home through the coating. Oil-based Bona Woodline gives a warmer amber tone but needs 14 days to cure and an empty house while it goes on, which is hard to schedule around a summer at the beach.