Timber Floor Refinishing in Sydney

It depends.

A bigger wood floor refinishing project here in Sydney obviously takes longer than a smaller one. 

Some things may make your flooring refinishing project longer: 

• Replacing individual damaged floorboards
• A larger home or a more complicated design (little corridors, closets, several long hallways, and so on).
• Sanding and refinishing stairs.
• Floor staining and custom flooring colour pre-treatments. 

Regardless, we always put in 100% to get your timber floor project completed in a timely fashion. When we see your home and flooring in-person to provide one of our onsite estimates, we will be able to give you a more precise answer about how long the process will take.

When we begin applying the finishes, you'll need to stay off the floor for a minimum of 4 to 8 hours. Perhaps more depending upon which finishing product you have chosen. If we are sanding and refinishing all the floors in rooms throughout your house, this could mean limited access to certain areas.

Staying off the drying floors could be an issue if you have adjoining rooms, or entryways and exit ways. 

Many of our clients take the opportunity to treat themselves to a special hotel getaway in the city or by the ocean for a night or two.

When we get together during your consultation, we can work out a plan that suits everyone.

In the recent past, most available oil-based finishes had a strong smell and a lot of fumes. It would linger for weeks. 

The good news is that here in Sydney, and Australia as a whole, those types of finishes were prohibited.

Finishes now belong to one of three categories:

• single component waterbased
• two-component water based
• premium quality hardwax oils

Both the water-based and hardwax oil systems have very little odour. There is next to no long-time lingering off-gassing issues with either one.

Not when refinishing existing timber flooring.

Timber naturally expands and contracts. Particularly here in Sydney where humidity and temperatures fluctuate from season to season. 

If you have your timberflooring gaps filled, it will become loose and come out as the wood floor expands and contracts. That’s why we recommend not filling the gaps in your old floors. You will be able to find some floor refinishing companies in Sydney that will still fill gaps on older hardwood floors. 

However, if we are installing a new floor, from time to time we will be asked to fill the gaps between the boards with a special high quality putty. It doesn’t work with every variant of timber, but for some products it works perfectly and looks great.

This is where we excel.

In most cases, we will probably need to swap out the damaged hardwood flooring because the stain would have soaked deep into the timber and would take too much surface off the timber to be effectively sanded out.

Absolutely.

But we are timber flooring specialists company only. We aren’t licensed to do any plumbing, electrical or gas fitting work in Sydney. You will need to have these appliances disconnected by a local expert serving your local area and be placed somewhere out of the way before we start the sanding and timber floor refinishing work. 

We are happy to recommend businesses that can do this for you if you’d like.

Hopefully but it depends.

We try to preserve the top layer as much as we can, but deep scratches can make that difficult. 

If your scratches are deep, we prefer to take out and replace the damaged boards before sanding. It might cost a little extra for the repair, but it is well it.

During our consultation, we will recommend whether they can be sanded out, or if they need replacement boards.

We would strongly recommend waiting a week to let the finish cure if possible. But if the room is well aired and the weather conditions are warm and dry, this time can reduce somewhat.

When you do move your furniture back after your timber floor refinishing is complete, be as careful as you can. Don’t drag furniture or appliances across the timber flooring, even with carpets or cardboard under them. We also strongly suggest our Sydney  clients use felt pads under furniture.

Large rugs and other flooring coverings should wait at least two weeks before putting them back in place on top of your new hardwood floors. Otherwise you run the risk of the carpet sticking a little to the new floor finish. Fibres of fabric might even become embedded.

Remember, once you put a rug down, air cannot get to the floor. It makes the curing process much more difficult.