Hardwood floor repair
Water under a dishwasher, a bad patch by the back door, twenty years of a dog standing in the same spot. Boards come out, new ones are woven in, and the sanding is what makes the repair disappear.
Scope of work
Five things, one price
Fixed so it stops showing
A patch that reads as a patch is a repair that failed. The work is in the weave and the blend, not in the cutting.
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Board-for-board replacement
Damaged planks come out and new ones go into the existing rows at staggered lengths. A square patch with four straight sides stays visible forever.
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Water damage and cupping
We find the source first — a supply line, a dishwasher, a slab that wicks — because boards laid over a subfloor that is still wet will cup again by next summer.
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Pet stains
Light rings sand out. Black rings are urine that reached the wood, and those boards get replaced. It is the only thing that works and it costs less than people expect.
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Carpet out, hardwood in
Carpet, pad, tack strip, and staples out, then an honest look at what is underneath. In most Tulsa houses built before 1960 there is red oak down there worth saving.
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Stair treads, risers, and nosing
Treads capped or replaced and nosing matched to the floor they land on. Stairs are the loudest part of a house and the first thing anyone touches.
Selected work
3 floors
Repairs and remodels
Stairs rebuilt, kitchens opened up, and floors woven back together in houses around Tulsa.
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Stair treads
Capped, bare, ready to finish
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Kitchen remodel
New floor run through
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Entry and stair
Floor and treads in one tone
The process
Four stages
Find it, then fix it
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Find the cause
A wet spot that is still wet will ruin the repair. We look under the sink, at the slab, and into the crawl space before quoting a board count.
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Cut out and weave in
Bad boards come out at staggered lengths and new ones go in row by row, so no joint line ever runs straight across the patch.
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Sand it flat
The repair and the floor around it get sanded as one surface. This is the step that decides whether anyone can find the patch later.
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Color and coat
Stain matched against the boards beside it, then coated. An old floor has ambered, so the match is usually a mix rather than one can off the shelf.
Straight answers
4 questions
Before you call
Four we answer on the phone before anyone drives out. Anything else, ask on the estimate — that is what it is for.
Can one room be refinished on its own?
If it closes off at a doorway, yes. If the floor runs continuously into the next room there is nowhere to stop that will not read as a line across the house, and the honest answer is that the whole run has to be done together.
Will the new boards match?
Species and size, yes. Color takes work — twenty years of light has ambered your floor and new wood has not caught up yet. We sample stain mixes against your boards, and after a season the new wood ambers in behind them.
My floor is cupped. Does it have to come out?
Usually not. Cupping is moisture. Once the source is fixed and the house holds 35 to 45 percent relative humidity, most floors flatten back out over a season. Sanding a cupped floor before it dries is what turns a fixable floor into a replacement.
What about squeaks?
A squeak is movement — a loose board over a joist, or subfloor that was never fastened properly. From above we screw and plug through the face of the board; from a basement or crawl space we shim from underneath and nothing shows at all.
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One crew, four crafts
The rest of what we do
The person who measures your floor is on the job when it goes down, when it gets sanded, and when the last coat goes on. That does not change with the service.
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Hardwood floor installation for homes still being built. We work off the plans, coordinate with your builder, and lay long clean runs with minimal transitions.
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Dustless sanding down to bare wood, then stain and finish. Hardwood floor refinishing brings an old floor back without tearing anything out.
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Luxury vinyl plank (LVP) and factory-prefinished hardwood. No sanding, no finish cure time — the floor is done the day we lay it.
Free estimate
No charge, no obligation
Tell us about your floors
Call and we will set a time to measure, look at what you have, and put a written quote in your hands. Estimates are free anywhere we work, Stillwater included.
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You get in touch
Tell us the rooms, roughly the square footage, and what the floor is doing now.
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We come measure
We look at the subfloor, check moisture, and sample color on your own floor, in your own light.
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You get it in writing
Square footage, materials, color, coats, and dates. The price you approve is the price you pay.
Hours
Mon – Fri: 8:00 AM – 5:00 PM · Sat – Sun: Closed