Floor Sanding Howth | Your Local Floor Sander
If your hardwood floors are covered in tiny black scratches, dull patches or discolorations here and there, you should contact Floor Sanding Howth and have your floors assessed before it is too late. All big issues start small so by dealing with a small scratch fast, you can avoid having to refinish the floor in full. Most of the minor scratches have scratched deep into the wood sealer and now the real wood is exposed to damage. As you wash the floor or from the general traffic, humidity will find its way into the hole created by the scratch and damage the wood. The water damage marks are unremovable with cleaning products so the floor has to be refinished.
Costs
Most people ignore the condition of their floors thinking that it will cost a fortune to have their floors restored. Well, while floor sanding is not cheap, it will cost a fraction of the cost of having to fully replace the floor. Replacing hardwood floors doesn’t just happen magically. The old floor has to be removed and disposed of, the skirting boards have to be removed and then re-installed, new floor has to be purchased and installed. All in, 2-5 days of work.
Most of our floor refinishing projects take only 1 day and the customer can use the floor in the evening. The new water based floor finishes are safe, VOC free, non yellowing and incredibly durable. It makes sense to restore your floors instead of replacing them. Floor Sanding Howth provides free no obligation estimates so there is no cost involved to find out what you can do and how much it will cost you.
Pricing Packages
The standard floor sanding and floor lacquering package includes two things, sanding of the floor and 2-3 coats of floor lacquer. This is the standard. You, as a customer, can decide the level of sheen and the type of lacquer. We use natural, matt, semi gloss or glossy finishes.
Adds on | Our standard rate per square meter includes the sanding and the lacquering while assuming that the floor is flat and requires no repairs. From this point on you can add additional services:
Floor Repairs | Floor Sanding Howth is well known for fully restoring hopeless looking hardwood floors. We can repair whatever floors you have or if the wood is too damaged, we can source reclaimed floorboards assuming that we are dealing with normal types of wood (oak, red deal, pine, maple, etc). This service costs extra.
Gap Filling | If the gaps between your floorboards are bothering you, accumulating dirt, creating draft, or whatever, we can fill them. Gaps up to about 0.5 cm can be filled with the dust generated from the floor itself mixed up with a special solvent or water based gap filler. This services will cost extra.
Wood Staining | If you are not happy with the colour of your wood or if you are ready for a major change, we can help you out. Floor Sanding Howth uses some of the most natural looking wood floor stains from Chimiver, Tover, Junckers and Bona. We can stain most types of wood with a few exceptions. We will be able to advise you on suitability after a site inspection. This service will also cost extra.
Particular Lacquers | If your hardwood floors are exposed to a lot of traffic and a lot of humidity, we can use an intense anti-slip floor lacquer. If your hardwood floors are fitted around an area with open fires, like fireplaces, we can use a fire resistant floor lacquer. If you are looking for 100% natural floor lacquer, we can use a raw looking lacquer. All these are extra.
***The pricing for floor sanding works just like any other service. The more stuff you get done, the higher the price. The repair of the floors takes time and materials. To fill up the gaps, we need to buy expensive gap fillers so the price will reflect that. To stain the wood in a different colour we need to buy wood stains. To apply particular types of lacquers, we need to buy it first. Either way, Floor Sanding Howth is one of the most cost effective floor sanding companies around***
Our Dustless Floor Sanding Technology
Every single day we are contacted by at least one customer to ask us how it is possible to sand a floor without generating any dust. Floor Sanding Howth advertises 98% dustless floor sanding services not 100%. A few years back, most floor sanders were just blowing dust all over the place and then the customer had to spend weeks cleaning. Nowadays, the modern belt sanders have a system of self aspiration that extracts up to 98% of the dust generated through a system of pipes and into a collection bag. There will be a bit of dust but nothing major.
The Magic Of Water Based Finishes
For years and years, the manufacturers of hardwood floor finishes have attempted to design products that were protecting the wood as good as the oil based floor finishes but without all the disadvantages that came with the oil based products. They came up with innovative water based technology. Year on year, better and better products were invented and the range became wider and wider.
Floor Sanding Howth has fully embraced the water based technology and besides a few primers and a few wood stains, we only use high traffic water based floor finishes that look natural, are long lasting, allow natural ventilation, are eco friendly and do not yellow over time. We mostly use the Chimiver range, Tover range, Junckers range and Bona range.
Quick Drying | Most of our water based floor primers and lacquers are fully dry within a few hours. No need to move out or inhale odours.
Odourless | The products are relatively odourless while drying and 100% odourless when fully dried
Non Yellowing | The water based floor lacquers are not affected by the UV light. It does not transform from a clear matt finish into a dark yellow because it contains 0 solvent.
So go on. Call Floor Sanding Howth today and book a free no obligation consultation. You can have brand new floors within a matter of days. Deal with a team of highly skilled floor sanding and floor refinishing specialists that have completed thousands of projects just like yours. Floor Sanding Howth is fully insured.
