Articles about Wood Flooring Refinishing Projects by Dan’s Floor Store of Ponte Vedra, Florida.

Refinished American Cherry flooring and stairs.

Cupped American Cherry Flooring in Fernandina

Dan’s Floor Store 904.887.8303 was contacted by one of our favorite real estate brokers to help their client with the floors in their newly purchased home. The home is situated right on the Amelia River, just across the water from Fernandina Beach and Amelia Island.

The existing flooring was American Cherry flooring and due to being solid in nature had a good amount of cupping (probably from lack of acclimating the flooring properly, prior to installation).

Solving the flooring cupping problem was the main reason we were selected for this job. No one likes to walk on a cupped floor.

Some of these before photos show the distinct, cupping pattern. Cupping happens when the bottom of the wood is wetter than the top of the wood. In this case, the American Cherry wood flooring which was put in didn’t have enough acclamation time went through the seasonal changes of Northeast Florida, i.e. the extreme humidity. We also refinished the stairway.

Needless to say, we took care of the cupping in the wood flooring by angling the floor by using rough sandpapers and our Lagler Hummel drum sanding machine. We also hand sanded the edges of the flooring. This method gets the flooring surface flat. as well as sanding the surface to prepare it for a new finish. It took 3 runs of paper with our Lagler Hummel drum sander, but our crew eliminated both the cupping and former carpet lines from an area rug had created on the flooring. The sanded wooden flooring and stair treads looked very, very beautiful!

Our crew finished these floors and stairs with three coats of waterborne finish with a satin topcoat Pallmann Clear for a seal coat, and final two coats of durable Pallman power satin.

The realtor and our clients told us they were impressed with how nice these American Cherry floors look now. Dan’s Floor Store always likes to have happy clients!

Dan’s Floor Store sands, stains (and can match stain) and finishes wood floors, repairs and refinishes existing wood flooring and staircases, and installs new wood floors (engineered wood, solid wood, or laminate) as well as Luxury Vinyl Plank for residential and commercial clients. Our work improves the looks of the floor and value of the property. Give us a call 904.887.8303 to make an appointment for a free consultation and estimate.

If your next improvement project involves tile or stone work, don’t forget that we professionally install those materials too.

Get the quality and the look you want, with friendly service and reasonable prices.

Visit our Ponte Vedra, Florida showroom.
Call Dan directly at (904) 887-8303.
Call the store at (904) 825-2311 to speak with our sales representative or to make an appointment for a Free in-home consultation and estimate.

Refinished Brazilian Cherry wood floors and stairway.

Refinish Brazilian Cherry Floors and Staircase on Black Creek

This wood floor and stairway refinishing job by Dan’s Floor Store 904.887.8303 took place in an absolutely stunning home in Clay County, Florida, on Black Creek. Our client contracted us to sand and finish their 2,000+ square feet of tropical exotic hardwood Jatoba (also known as Brazilian Cherry) wood flooring and staircase.

As you can see in these Before photos, we could see this wood flooring was showing carpet lines, which went away after we sanded the floor.

Our crew sanded the floors and staircase with long stair treads, to remove the old finish.

Then we applied the Bona Intense Seal, as chosen by our customer. After applying the sealer, our crew buffed down the grain of the wood, raised by the water sealer, to a super smooth surface. We finished the Brazilian Cherry floors and stairway with 3 coats of Bona Traffic HD matte finish.

Our clients told us that they were very happy with their refinished Brazilian Cherry wood floors and staircase. Dan’s Floor Store always likes to have happy customers.

Dan’s Floor Store sands, stains (and can match stain) and finishes wood floors, repairs and refinishes existing wood flooring and staircases, and installs new wood floors (engineered wood, solid wood, or laminate) as well as Luxury Vinyl Plank for residential and commercial clients. Our work improves the looks of the floor and value of the property. Give us a call 904.887.8303 to make an appointment for a free consultation and estimate.

If your next improvement project involves tile or stone work, don’t forget that we professionally install those materials too.

Get the quality and the look you want, with friendly service and reasonable prices.

Visit our Ponte Vedra, Florida showroom.
Call Dan directly at (904) 887-8303.
Call the store at (904) 825-2311 to speak with our sales representative or to make an appointment for a Free in-home consultation and estimate.

Repaired and refinished wooden floors.

Repair, Sand and Finish Wood Flooring in Springfield Apartments

Dan’s Floor Store 904.887.8303 was contracted to repair, sand, and finish the wood flooring in 18 apartments in the historic Springfield neighborhood of Jacksonville, Florida. The flooring was a mix of Red Oak, White Oak, and Pine.

There were many areas of wood flooring to repair throughout some of the apartment homes, due to termites and other damage. We used the weave-in method to replace sections of wood flooring from other old, vintage homes in the area.

In some of these photos, you can see where we used recovered subfloor, and lighter areas in the flooring show where the subfloor touches the beams.

In all, our crew repaired, sanded and finished nearly 14,000 square feet of wood flooring in these apartments to restore a beautiful, natural wood look!

We applied 3 coats of polyurethane; 1 coat of Bona Fast Dry Sealer, and 2 coats of Pallmann Power Ultramatte.

This job took nearly a month for the Dan’s Floor Store crew to complete. It took a lot of work to remove the layers of wax, paint, tar, drywall residue and more that had accumulated on the existing flooring in each apartment unit. For us, each unit was a time consuming labor of love to be prettied up, and we did!

Our client told us that they were very pleased with our work, and Dan’s Floor Store always likes to hear that from our clients!

Dan’s Floor Store repairs and refinishes existing wood flooring and staircases, sands, stains (and can match stain) and finishes wood floors,  and installs new wood floors (engineered wood, solid wood, or laminate) as well as Luxury Vinyl Plank for residential and commercial clients. Our work improves the looks of the floor and value of the property. Give us a call 904.887.8303 to make an appointment for a free consultation and estimate.

If your next improvement project involves tile or stone work, don’t forget that we professionally install those materials too.

Get the quality and the look you want, with friendly service and reasonable prices.

  • Visit our Ponte Vedra, Florida showroom.
  • Call Dan directly at (904) 887-8303.
  • Call the store at (904) 825-2311 to speak with our sales representative or to make an appointment for a Free in-home consultation and estimate.
Refinished wood floors and stairs.

Sand and Finish Wood Floors and Stairs in Yulee

Dan’s Floor Store 904.887.8303 was contracted to sand and finish the solid Red Oak flooring and 2 stairways in a home in Yulee, Florida. This is an old home, located on the marsh, just west of Fernandina Beach. One set of stairs was Red Oak, the other was Pine.

We found the flooring to be in good shape overall, no repairs were needed.

Our crew sanded the floors using our Lagler-Hummel belt sander on the larger areas of the floors. and also sanded all of the stair treads. We hand scraped the edges of the floors and stair treads.

During a break, we enjoyed the view of the nearby marsh.

Our crew refinished the wood flooring and wooden stair treads back to a beautiful, natural look. We applied Pallmann Clear Sealer, followed by 2 coats of Pallmann matte finish.

Our client told us they were very pleased with our work and their refinished flooring and stairways! Dan’s Floor Store always likes to have happy clients!

Dan’s Floor Store sands, stains (and can match stain) and finishes wood floors, repairs and refinishes existing wood flooring and staircases, and installs new wood floors (engineered wood, solid wood, or laminate) as well as Luxury Vinyl Plank for residential and commercial clients. Our work improves the looks of the floor and value of the property. Give us a call 904.887.8303 to make an appointment for a free consultation and estimate.

If your next improvement project involves tile or stone work, don’t forget that we professionally install those materials too.

Get the quality and the look you want, with friendly service and reasonable prices.

Visit our Ponte Vedra, Florida showroom.
Call Dan directly at (904) 887-8303.
Call the store at (904) 825-2311 to speak with our sales representative or to make an appointment for a Free in-home consultation and estimate.

Finished White Oak hardwood flooring.

Install, Sand, Finish – White Oak Flooring – Sawgrass TPC

Dan’s Floor Store 904.887.8303 was contracted for a wood flooring job in TPC Sawgrass, right on the Dye’s Valley Course!

Our client was a new homeowner and he was moving here from Boston, Massachusetts with his family. They needed to get this job done under a strict time frame; finished right before Thanksgiving!

Dan did the on-site inspection of the wood flooring project site, and measured the designated project flooring areas. The project was to refinish the existing wood flooring, and replace existing carpet with matching wood flooring in the carpeted sunken living room and a master bedroom. He determined the existing wood flooring in the home (to be matched) was solid White Oak, in 2 1/4 inch wide planks.

Our crew removed all of the old carpeting and leveled the concrete subfloor. A good wood flooring installation requires a leveled subfloor. Leveling included around the two fireplaces; one in the master and one in the sunken in living room. The area in the sunken living room required extensive leveling to arrive to the same height as the fireplace hearths.

As we started the wood flooring installation, our crew picture framed header boards around the fireplaces, completely flush to the marble. Our crew used an unfinished engineered wood product that is made in America by Maxwell; in 2 1/4 inch wide White Oak engineered hardwood flooring, using Bostiks Greenforce adhesive.

Meanwhile, the existing White Oak flooring was being sanded with our sanding equipment by Dan and his crew.

We used Pallman Nature Seal, and Pallman Pure to finish this flooring job.

Needless to say, Dan and his Dan’s Floor Store crew met the timeline to allow our customers to move in right before Thanksgiving and enjoy their Thanksgiving in their new home, with our new Floors.

Dan’s Floor Store sands, stains (and can match stain) and finishes wood floors, repairs and refinishes existing wood flooring and staircases, and installs new wood floors (engineered wood, solid wood, or laminate) as well as Luxury Vinyl Plank for residential and commercial clients. Our work improves the looks of the floor and value of the property. Give us a call 904.887.8303 to make an appointment for a free consultation and estimate.

If your next improvement project involves tile or stone work, don’t forget that we professionally install those materials too.

Get the quality and the look you want, with friendly service and reasonable prices.

Visit our Ponte Vedra, Florida showroom.
Call Dan directly at (904) 887-8303.
Call the store at (904) 825-2311 to speak with our sales representative or to make an appointment for a Free in-home consultation and estimate.

Refinished wooden flooring.

Springfield Floor Repair, Sand and Finish

This wood flooring project took place in an old home in the historic Springfield neighborhood of downtown Jacksonville, Florida. Our customer initially wanted Dan’s Floor Store 904.887.8303 to just sand and finish the old Heart Pine flooring, upstairs and downstairs. The further we got into this project, we found these old floors would need a lot of repairs.

There were subfloor issues that we found underneath the termite infested flooring boards. Our team had to repair the subfloor before we could start weaving-in the new Heart Pine flooring planks.

Our team used the weave-in method to install the new river recovered Heart Pine planks from Goodwin Heart Pine.

Then we sanded and stained the replaced flooring with a Bona stain. (Since the Heart Pine was river recovered, It was slightly lighter wood.) There were hundreds of Heart Pine boards that we removed and replaced.
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Finally, we finished these Heart Pine wood floors with durable Pallmann finishes; 1 coat of Pallmann clear, then 2 coats of Pallmann power finish..

Our client was very pleased with these refinished floors. Dan’s Floor Store always likes to have happy customers!

Dan’s Floor Store sands, stains (and can match stain) and finishes wood floors, repairs and refinishes existing wood flooring and staircases, and installs new wood floors (engineered wood, solid wood, or laminate) as well as Luxury Vinyl Plank for residential and commercial clients. Our work improves the looks of the floor and value of the property. Give us a call 904.887.8303 to make an appointment for a free consultation and estimate.

If your next improvement project involves tile or stone work, don’t forget that we professionally install those materials too.

Get the quality and the look you want, with friendly service and reasonable prices.

  • Visit our Ponte Vedra, Florida showroom.
  • Call Dan directly at (904) 887-8303.
  • Call the store at (904) 825-2311 to speak with our sales representative or to make an appointment for a Free in-home consultation and estimate.
Finished Red Oak flooring - cropped.

Sand and Finish Red Oak Floors in Jacksonville Florida

Dan’s Floor Store 904.887.8303 was contracted to refinish the Red Oak floors for a client near Craig Airfield in Jacksonville, Florida.

During our FREE On-site evaluation and consultation, this client chose a natural, clear, water based poly (matte) finish by Pallmann . This finish will blend nicely with the newly installed ceiling in their dining room and kitchen.

There were not damaged planks in the wood floors. Weave-in repairs with new Red Oak planks were not needed.

Our crew began this project by sanding the Red Oak flooring to remove the old finish. In some of these photos, you can see our big Lagler-Hummel belt sander that we used for larger areas of the floors. To complete preparing the flooring, our crew used edge sanders and hand scraped the edges of the wood flooring.

Sanding.

Finishing.

Refinished Red Oak flooring.

Our customer told us they were thrilled with the outcome of our work. Dan’s Floor Store always likes to have happy clients!

Dan’s Floor Store sands, stains (and can match stain) and finishes wood floors, repairs and refinishes existing wood flooring and staircases, and installs new wood floors (engineered wood, solid wood, or laminate) as well as Luxury Vinyl Plank for residential and commercial clients. Our work improves the looks of the floor and value of the property. Give us a call 904.887.8303 to make an appointment for a free consultation and estimate.

If your next improvement project involves tile or stone work, don’t forget that we professionally install those materials too.

Get the quality and the look you want, with friendly service and reasonable prices.

Visit our Ponte Vedra, Florida showroom.
Call Dan directly at (904) 887-8303.
Call the store at (904) 825-2311 to speak with our sales representative or to make an appointment for a Free in-home consultation and estimate.

White Oak flooring with Walnut strip trim, after refinishing.

Sand and Finish Old Wood Floors in Ponte Vedra, Florida

Dan’s Floor Store 904.887.8303 was selected to refinish the old wooden floors in a home on Roscoe Boulevard in Ponte Vedra Beach.

Some of the wood floors in this project home were of White Oak with Walnut borders. Some of the floors were of Heart Pine.

This historic home was moved from the Riverside neighborhood to Roscoe Boulevard in Ponte Vedra, part of the way via a barge on the water (the St. Johns River and the Intracoastal Waterway).

A picture taken of the home, floating on the barge as it was being moved was displayed in one of the rooms in which we refinished the wood flooring.

After sanding the floors, and hand scraping the edges of all the sanded wood surfaces, our crew applied durable Pallmann Finish.

Our clients told us they loved how nice their refinished old wooden floors looked. Dan’s Floor Store likes to have happy clients!

Dan’s Floor Store sands, stains (and can match stain) and finishes wood floors, repairs and refinishes existing wood flooring and staircases, and installs new wood floors (engineered wood, solid wood, or laminate) as well as Luxury Vinyl Plank for residential and commercial clients. Our work improves the looks of the floor and value of the property. Give us a call 904.887.8303 to make an appointment for a free consultation and estimate.

If your next improvement project involves tile or stone work, don’t forget that we professionally install those materials too.

Get the quality and the look you want, with friendly service and reasonable prices.

Visit our Ponte Vedra, Florida showroom.
Call Dan directly at (904) 887-8303.
Call the store at (904) 825-2311 to speak with our sales representative or to make an appointment for a Free in-home consultation and estimate.

Refinished old wooden floors.

Refinishing Old Wood Flooring and Stairs in Riverside

Dan’s Floor Store 904.887.8383 enjoys refinishing old wood floors and stairways to their earlier elegance. We are proud that our work is helping to preserve our Country’s architectural history.

In this old home, located in the Riverside neighborhood of Jacksonville, Florida, the whole upstairs flooring was Heart Pine. The downstairs and stairs were made of White Oak.

From these Before photos, you can see how the floors and stairs in this project home were ready for us to refinish them.

Our crew sanded the old upstairs and downstairs wood floors, and the wooden stair treads. Next we hand scraped the edges of each sanded area of flooring and stair tread, to ready them for finish application.

Our Team applied durable Pallmann finish to the old Heart Pine and White Oak flooring, and the White Oak stairway.

Our client told us that he was impressed with how nice these old Heart Pine floors and White Oak floors and stairway looked after our crew refinished them! Dan’s Floor Store always likes to have happy clients!

Dan’s Floor Store sands, stains (and can match stain) and finishes wood floors, repairs and refinishes existing wood flooring and staircases, and installs new wood floors (engineered wood, solid wood, or laminate) as well as Luxury Vinyl Plank for residential and commercial clients. Our work improves the looks of the floor and value of the property. Give us a call 904.887.8303 to make an appointment for a free consultation and estimate.

If your next improvement project involves tile or stone work, don’t forget that we professionally install those materials too.

Get the quality and the look you want, with friendly service and reasonable prices.

Visit our Ponte Vedra, Florida showroom.
Call Dan directly at (904) 887-8303.
Call the store at (904) 825-2311 to speak with our sales representative or to make an appointment for a Free in-home consultation and estimate.

Refinished old Red Oak flooring.

Refinish Old Red Oak Floors in Orange Park FL

Dan’s Floor Store 904.887.8303 was contracted to refinish the old, 1 1/2″ wide, solid Red Oak floors in a home in Orange Park, Florida.

The overall condition of the Oak wood flooring was good. These floors just hadn’t been refinished in nearly 20 year, so they deserved restoring.

Our crew began sanding with coarse, 36 grit sandpaper. And then we used finer, 80 grit sandpaper.

These photos show the old Red Oak flooring after being sanded in one room, and the Pallmann finish being applied in an adjacent room.

We finished these solid Red Oak floors with quality Pallmann hardwood coatings. First one coat of Pallmann Clear Sealer. Then two coats of Pallmann Power, ultra matte. We buffed the floors smooth, prior to applying the final coat.

Our clients told us that they loved how nice their old solid Red Oak floors look now! Dan’s Floor Store likes to have happy clients!

Dan’s Floor Store sands, stains (and can match stain) and finishes wood floors, repairs and refinishes existing wood flooring and staircases, and installs new wood floors (engineered wood, solid wood, or laminate) as well as Luxury Vinyl Plank for residential and commercial clients. Our work improves the looks of the floor and value of the property. Give us a call 904.887.8303 to make an appointment for a free consultation and estimate.

If your next improvement project involves tile or stone work, don’t forget that we professionally install those materials too.

Get the quality and the look you want, with friendly service and reasonable prices.

  • Visit our Ponte Vedra, Florida showroom.
  • Call Dan directly at (904) 887-8303.
  • Call the store at (904) 825-2311 to speak with our sales representative or to make an appointment for a Free in-home consultation and estimate.