Parquet wood floor refinishing for a DIY project?
Some DIY (Do It Yourself) projects sound and look a lot easier than they turn out to be. You read descriptions of the project in a magazine or listen to a friend describe it, or see a few YouTube videos and it looks like something you could do yourself, while learning a new skill. And you get that feeling of accomplishment. Sometimes it works like that, but not all DIY projects work out the way you intended.
Owners of a home over in Ortega Forest, off US 17, on the west side of the St. Johns River in Jacksonville, Florida planned to sand, stain, and refinish their parquet wood flooring as a DIY project.
Parquet refers to detailed woodblock flooring, made of short pieces of hardwood. Parquet floors are installed arranged in a decorative pattern, to create a mosaic look. The woodblocks can be made from solid wood or can be engineered wood.
After the homeowners had invested their time and energy into the project, they were not satisfied with how the floor turned out. They called Dan’s Floor Store for a free consultation and estimate to professionally refinish their parquet wood flooring.
Here are some photos of the DIY refinished flooring.
After talking with the homeowners more, we knew the look that they wanted for their parquet floors, and we recommended they allow Dan’s Floor Store to professionally refinish their flooring.
First we sanded the parquet flooring.
Here are some photos taken while we were refinishing the parquet wood flooring. We finished the floor with Bona Mega Clear HD semi gloss, for increased scuff/scratch resistance with no amber tint.
When we had professionally refinished their parquet wood floors, our clients were very happy with the look of their refinished floors. And Dan’s Floor Store is always happy when our clients like our work.
Read our Client’s Review of this wood floor refinishing project on Yelp.
If you are thinking about new wood floors (whether solid wood, engineered wood, or laminate), or refinishing the wood flooring you have, give Dan’s Floor Store a call 904.887.8303 to make an appointment for a free consultation and estimate. If your next home 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.
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Coastal Look European White Oak Wood Flooring Installation in PVB
/in New Wood Flooring Installation /by adminDan’s Floor Store was contacted by a homeowner in Turtle Shores, in south Ponte Vedra Beach, for one of our free flooring consultations and estimates.
The carpeting on her floor was installed in the 1980s, so it was ready for replacement. Most standard, contractor grade carpeting that is installed in new construction homes is only designed to last for 3 or 4 years before it begins to deteriorate and becomes harder to clean. She also wanted the tile flooring in her foyer replaced with wood flooring. We would install the new wood flooring on 900 square foot of her home.
This project began with removing the client’s furniture from the selected areas of her home.
We removed the old carpeting and tile, then we prepared and leveled the plywood subfloor.
Then we installed new coastal look European White Oak wood flooring.
The client loved the coastal look we achieved with her new European White Oak wood flooring. And we are always happy when our clients are pleased with our work.
If you are thinking about new wood floors (whether solid wood, engineered wood, or laminate), or refinishing the wood flooring you have, give Dan’s Floor Store a call 904.887.8303 to make an appointment for a free consultation and estimate. If your next home 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.
Parquet Wood Floor Refinishing in Ortega Forest
/in Wood Floor Refinishing /by adminParquet wood floor refinishing for a DIY project?
Some DIY (Do It Yourself) projects sound and look a lot easier than they turn out to be. You read descriptions of the project in a magazine or listen to a friend describe it, or see a few YouTube videos and it looks like something you could do yourself, while learning a new skill. And you get that feeling of accomplishment. Sometimes it works like that, but not all DIY projects work out the way you intended.
Owners of a home over in Ortega Forest, off US 17, on the west side of the St. Johns River in Jacksonville, Florida planned to sand, stain, and refinish their parquet wood flooring as a DIY project.
Parquet refers to detailed woodblock flooring, made of short pieces of hardwood. Parquet floors are installed arranged in a decorative pattern, to create a mosaic look. The woodblocks can be made from solid wood or can be engineered wood.
After the homeowners had invested their time and energy into the project, they were not satisfied with how the floor turned out. They called Dan’s Floor Store for a free consultation and estimate to professionally refinish their parquet wood flooring.
Here are some photos of the DIY refinished flooring.
After talking with the homeowners more, we knew the look that they wanted for their parquet floors, and we recommended they allow Dan’s Floor Store to professionally refinish their flooring.
First we sanded the parquet flooring.
Here are some photos taken while we were refinishing the parquet wood flooring. We finished the floor with Bona Mega Clear HD semi gloss, for increased scuff/scratch resistance with no amber tint.
When we had professionally refinished their parquet wood floors, our clients were very happy with the look of their refinished floors. And Dan’s Floor Store is always happy when our clients like our work.
Read our Client’s Review of this wood floor refinishing project on Yelp.
If you are thinking about new wood floors (whether solid wood, engineered wood, or laminate), or refinishing the wood flooring you have, give Dan’s Floor Store a call 904.887.8303 to make an appointment for a free consultation and estimate. If your next home 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.
Refinishing Heart Pine Wood Flooring in Jacksonville Beach
/in Wood Floor Refinishing /by adminThis was a commercial wood floor refinishing project. We were contracted to refinish the old solid heart pine wood floors in the Playgarden; a place for pre-schoolers and kindergarteners to explore, grow, and create in south Jacksonville Beach, Florida. Their solid heart pine wood floors were scuffed and worn from the beach sand and the traffic of little shoes; ready for refinishing.
Heart Pine is the heartwood of the long leaf pine tree, and is very hard and strong, with beautiful coloring and figure patterns.
First we sanded the floors. You can start to see the charming character of these solid heart pine wood floors reappear after the first pass of our sander on the flooring.
After sanding the floors, we applied Bona IntenseSeal to develop the deep, natural tone, pigmentation, and color characteristics of the Heart Pine wood.
Then we finished the floors with two coats of Bona Mega Clear HD Satin, which eliminates the amber tint that occurs with some finishes, and increases the physical performance of these final layers of finish.
Our clients at the Playgarden were delighted with the refreshed look of their old wood floors, and we always like to have happy clients.
If you are thinking about new wood floors (whether solid wood, engineered wood, or laminate), or refinishing the wood flooring you have, give Dan’s Floor Store a call 904.887.8303 to make an appointment for a free consultation and estimate. If your next home 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.
White Stained White Oak Floors in Plantation Country Club PVB
/in New Wood Flooring Installation /by adminDan’s Floor Store works hard on each flooring project to provide results that make our clients happy. And we appreciate when our happy clients recommend us to their friends and family, and when they call us back to do a new wood, tile or stone flooring project in their home, office, or commercial property.
Last year we installed engineered white stained White Oak wood flooring in several rooms of this client’s home in the Plantation Country Club community in Ponte Vedra Beach to achieve a beach house look.
Our clients liked the beachy look of that flooring so much they called us to help renovate some more rooms in their home, removing some existing tile flooring and replacing the tile with new wood flooring.
First we removed the existing tile from the floors to be covered with White Oak wood flooring.
This video clip shows how a floor tile removal machine makes it faster and easier to remove existing floor tiles with minimal damage to the subfloor surface.
Next we leveled the concrete subfloor. Dan’s Floor Store has made it a practice of leveling subfloors prior to all wood floor installations to help make the client’s new wood flooring last longer. Uneven subfloors can cause damage to new wood flooring, so we make sure we start installing the new wood floor on a level surface.
We use special flooring straps to hold these white stained White Oak wood planks together during installation, due to the width of the planks.
The engineered white stained White Oak wood flooring that we installed gives the floors a nice beachy look that the clients like and we do, too.
Our clients enjoy sitting out in the back yard of their home, relaxing with the pleasant view of the peaceful waters of the pond.
If you are thinking about new wood floors (whether solid wood, engineered wood, or laminate), or refinishing the wood flooring you have, give Dan’s Floor Store a call 904.887.8303 to make an appointment for a free consultation and estimate. If your next home 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.
White Oak Wood Floor Refinished with a Custom Stain on Anastasia Island
/in Wood Floor Refinishing /by adminDan’s Floor Store refinishes old wood floors to look like new, or as a part of achieving a different look in a room, or both.
A client wanted their 2 1/4″ wide solid White Oak wood floor refinished with a custom stain to achieve a different look in their home on Anastasia Island in St. Augustine, Florida.
We started this project by sanding the wood flooring.
Details are important in achieving good results. When Dan’s Floor Store refinishes a wood floor we perform a step called “pulling the ends” of the wood plank floors. For this step, we hand scrape the edges of the floor where the edger sanded, to achieve a full fresh surface for the wood flooring.
To achieve the look the client wanted for their wood floor, we rubbed the floor with water to “pop” (open up) the wood grain. Popping the wood grain allows super pigmented stains to stay in the wood, rather than being pulled off when a water based finish is applied. The stain color we created for the client was a custom color; a blend of DuraSeal Classic Gray and DuraSeal Country White.
We finished the custom stained White Oak wood floor with durable Bona finishes. First our crew applied Bona Mega Clear HD which eliminates the amber tint achieved with some finishes. And then we applied a final finish coat of Bona Traffic HD.
The custom stain achieved the look that the client wanted, and they were very happy with their refinished floor.
If you are thinking about new wood floors (whether solid wood, engineered wood, or laminate), or refinishing the wood flooring you have, give Dan’s Floor Store a call 904.887.8303 to make an appointment for a free consultation and estimate.
If your next home 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.
Refinishing clear grade solid Red Oak flooring in Jacksonville
/in Wood Floor Refinishing /by adminWood floor refinishing is a good option whether thinking about selling a home or business, or just looking to give a wood flooring a fresh look. Many clients choose wood floor refinishing as the best way to make their old, scuffed and worn wood floors look nice again.
For this project, the clients in a home on University Boulevard in Jacksonville just needed about 500 square feet of old clear grade solid Red Oak wood floors sanded and refinished. Clear grade Red Oak is a mostly heartwood flooring. Clear grade allows all the natural heartwood color variations with minimal character marks and limited color variation. – National Wood Flooring Association (nwfa).
First we thoroughly sanded the wood floor.
We finished the Red Oak flooring with Bona Mega Clear HD for improved chemical resistance and increased scuff and scratch resistance.
The old clear grade solid Red Oak floors look good again. Our clients were very pleased with their refinished wood floor.
If you are thinking about new wood floors (whether solid wood, engineered wood, or laminate), or refinishing the wood flooring you have, give Dan’s Floor Store a call 904.887.8303 to make an appointment for a free consultation and estimate. If your next home 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.
Hickory Hardwood Flooring Installation – Plantation Oaks in Ponte Vedra Beach
/in New Wood Flooring Installation /by adminDan’s Floor Store works to make every wood flooring installation a good experience. Clients that are pleased with our work often recommend us to friends and family.
The couple wanted 1350 square feet of existing wood and tile flooring in the home removed, and new wood flooring installed. We can do that!
The couple picked 1/2″ by 7 1/2″ wide planks of engineered Hickory hardwood flooring, in a style called Monticello Hearthsone, by Max Woods.
We stacked the boxes of flooring planks to the side of the work area, and set up a temporary work shop on the back patio of the home. Special flooring straps are used to hold these wood planks together during installation, due to the width of the planks.
The installed Hickory hardwood flooring look excellent and the homeowners were very happy.
If you are thinking about new wood floors (whether solid wood, engineered wood, or laminate), or refinishing the wood flooring you have, give Dan’s Floor Store a call 904.887.8303 to make an appointment for a free consultation and estimate. If your next home 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.
Hand Scraped Birch Wood Flooring Installation – Odom’s Mill
/in New Wood Flooring Installation /by adminOur Dan’s Floor Store crew works hard to do a good job on our residential and commercial flooring projects for each of our clients. Whether we are installing a new wood floor, repairing or refinishing a wood floor, or installing tile or stone, we work with our clients to make the project a good experience for them. It just makes good sense to treat others the way you want to be treated.
And we are thankful that many times our clients show their appreciation for our work on their flooring project by calling Dan’s Floor Store when they have another wood or tile flooring project. Many prior clients also recommend us to their friends and families.
A year or so ago, a couple who own a charming home in the Odom’s Mill community of Ponte Vedra Beach, Florida contracted us to install wood flooring in rooms covering about 1250 square feet of their home. They said they really loved their new wood floors.
Recently they called on us to install some pre-finished, hand scraped Birch wood flooring that they had purchased to match their existing wood floors. This new project covered the floors in two more bedrooms of their charming home, and further increases the value of their home.
Dan’s Floor Store sells a wide variety of name brand wood flooring and tile, samples of which are on display in our Ponte Vedra Showroom. And, just like on this project, we will also install wood flooring that a client has purchased on their own.
When this project started, both bedroom floors were covered with carpet. We removed the carpet and leveled the concrete subfloor, so the wooden flooring would not be damaged by unevenness in the concrete surface.
You can see in these photos how the hand scraped Birch wood flooring that our clients picked looks great and matched beautifully with their existing wood flooring that we had previously installed.
Everyone was pleased with how good the newly installed wood flooring looks.
If you are thinking about new wood floors (whether solid wood, engineered wood, or laminate), or refinishing the wood flooring you have, give Dan’s Floor Store a call 904.887.8303 to make an appointment for a free consultation and estimate. If your next home 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.
Red Oak Stair Treads and Wood-Look Floor Tiles – Plantation Country Club
/in New Tile Installation, wood staircase installation /by adminOur client also wanted some wood-look floor tiles installed in an entry way in their home.
Dan’s Floor Store installed, sanded, hand scraped, and stained the new, solid Red Oak stair treads to match the shade of the existing Red Oak flooring. Then we coated the treads with three coats of Bona Traffic finish.
For the second project in this charming home, the client selected Emser wood-look ceramic tile from their Grove collection
Dan’s Floor Store enjoys helping clients make improvements to their homes and businesses. Our client was very pleased with our finished work.
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Wood Floor Weave-in and Install at the King and Bear
/in New Wood Flooring Installation, wood floor weave-in /by adminThe client wanted to replace the tile floors in the hallways, kitchen, and dining room with wood flooring.
And they wanted the new wood flooring to appear as a continuation of the existing wood flooring that had been previously installed in their home.
First the tile and thinset used to adhere the tiles to the concrete subfloor had to be removed, and the entire area to be covered in wood flooring had be be leveled.
To match the existing wood flooring, we found a beautiful engineered hand scraped Birch wood flooring, 5″ x 3/8″ planks from the Rucsello collection by Bella Cera.
To blend the new wood flooring in with the existing wood flooring, we wove in ten boards, and went on to extend the new wood flooring throughout all the hallways, in the kitchen, and in the dining room of the home.
The weave-in and installation turned out beautifully, and our client was very pleased. In all, we installed 600 square feet of wood flooring.
If you are thinking about new wood floors (whether solid wood, engineered wood, or laminate), or refinishing the wood flooring you have, give Dan’s Floor Store a call 904.887.8303 to make an appointment for a free consultation and estimate. If your next home 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.