This is a job we finished today in Brooklyn Park. This floor is inch and a half wide red oak hardwood. As you can see from the first picture the floors were not in good shape. My client wanted to save some money, clean up the floors and protect them. It was for a rental property so we didn’t want to spend too much money, but wanted to make them look nice.
In this situation I would usually to a complete refinish, but if money is an issue, I would then recommend a buff and re coat. The difference is a refinish will completely sand the floor and remove the finish from the hardwood, but a buff and coat will only lightly sand the finish coat. After we buff or sand, we then apply the finish. In this case it was an oil based semi-gloss finish.
As you can see from the third picture the floors look a lot better. They are not in perfect shape and would be a lot cleaner with a complete refinish, but sometimes people are just going for this look, they want to save money and it only takes a day to complete vs two or three for a total refinish. A lot of homes could be buff and recoat on oak hardwood floors in Brooklyn Park MN, it just depends on what your going for.
Personally I like the refinish look a lot more because I know how much it can clean the floor. However, I do own rental properties and I know that tenets can be very hard on the floors. I buff and coated one of my own rentals last year and it looks a lot better. I did refinish it completely the year before so it was already in good shape.
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