Updated Website Content

We have updated our website. We feel that some of the old content may not have been descriptive enough for our current direction as a company. We also feel that the section on hardwood floor refinishing wasn't descriptive enough to define what separates our service from our peers. If you have questions or any suggestions please e-mail us. Look for more updates in the future. Thanks for your interest.

Taking one for the team

I was working on a remodel recently and wanted to make light of how stuff happens. This remodel was very tedious and managed more along the lines of extreme home makeover on ABC. At about 7:30pm the night before finishing I was walking around the kitchen doing some quality control observations and walked into a shelf. The shelf was 1/4" plate steel with a rather sharp corner and it blended quite well with the color of the grout/mortar for the brick wall into which the shelf was integrated. The worst part was that I dropped a can of finish on the already finished floor and had to wipe the excess finish up with one hand and apply pressure to the injury with my other free hand. It was quite a memorable moment. Eight stitches later and all is well again.


Sometimes you have to take one for the team. Either way, I still love my career and consider it a reality check for how we all could slow down occasionally.

How long will it last?

The title of this blog in my opinion should be the first question out of your mouth if you are a consumer or remodeler who preaches sustainability. The beauty of wood flooring is that it has the ability to last for well over 100 years depending on the wear layer thickness of the material.

Let us define wear layer as the surface of a flooring product that is in contact with foot traffic that can tolerate gradual removal of material without compromising the integrity of the flooring fastening system. Wear layer is a tremendously overlooked factor for people who are purchasing products. A minimum wear layer thickness for product that is serviceable through recoating or refinishing should be 3/16". The wear layer of a typical 3/4 solid hardwood floor is 5/16". That means that you may be able to refinish the floors typically 8 times. Some of the houses in Portland have fir flooring with a wear layer thickness that may have once been close to 1/2" or 8/16" in my estimate. That's pretty amazing for longevity.



We recommend that in addition to the cost and the color, the primary consideration of your flooring material should be serviceability over time.