Hardwood floor nightmare

9/5/2012 at 7:10:37 PM

Not sure what the cluster of bumps is, but the distinct lines are proabley sanding scratchs from the first sanding that didn't get sanded down on the second sanding. To get rid of those the floor would have to be sanded bare again. The fish eyes are caused by contamination (oil, grease, etc.) in the floor that is effecting the top coat.

You shouldn't expect to have any flaws in a refinished floor, the worst would be few dust specks that settle in the top coat before it's completely dry. Even if that's unacceptable to you, the room can be sealed off and a HEPA filter run in the room before hand. Now it's not normal to do and would add to the cost of the job, and you should ask for it beforehand.

As far as a refund, that is up to you and the contractor. By the sounds of it, your contractor is not able to fix the problems, so you are better of calling in someone else.

9/18/2012 at 10:36:02 PM

Hi

It sounds as though the clusters maybe signs of an improperly cleaned floor before sealant application, normal small particles of sand will cause this, or a cheap applicator.

As for the lines, they could be scratches from the machine, there should be no marks what so ever, and if the floor was cleaned and inspected before the sealant was applied the lines would have been noted.

The fish eyes are from the surface not been taken down to the bare wood, there maybe contaminates on the floor from oil, or from the previous sealant not been removed. Also the previous floor may have had a oil based sealant, where as the newer products use a water base, thus the reaction would be bubbles or fish eyes.

9/19/2012 at 11:05:08 AM

Thank you for your replies. We ended up hiring someone else to come in & redo our floors as the original man we hired would not return our calls or refund us any money back. We lost close to 4 thousand dollars & had to pay all over again. It was shoddy work indeed. The gentleman we hired the second time did say that it was junk in the finish. There wasn't one square foot that didn't contain this junk.

All the smears & lines were do to the finish he used^& the sloppy way it was applied. The fish eyes & cloudy spots were due to him sanding & putting finish over top.

We are very pleased with the results this other gentleman did & best of all, he said we did not have to pay until we were 100% happy with his results. The first genleman we hired took our money when the floors were still wet so we were unable to see the mess until after they dried.

I feel I should warn others about Daves Villiage flooring in Cambridge Ontario so they don't get taken like we did. Thanks you both for your replies.

Below is a picture of the state he left our floors in. Yes this is his finished product.

9/23/2012 at 2:11:26 PM

Hi,

Now your saying why? because all bad Carpenters, Electricians and more makes the good guys looks bad, that's why clients hires more and more handyman to be less expensive but get stuck again in this problem, this ends up more expensive for the client and the good guy gets blame for the amount spent by the clients (To expensive) they all say, Get the good guy in first place you will see he is not expensive at the end.

Thanks for your time.

Gaby

From Amg Renovation.

9/23/2012 at 9:01:21 PM

I totally agree Gabby!!!!! How ever this guy was not that cheap. But he was the cheapest estimate we did get. He charged 260 a square foot.

I certainly wish we had of hired the other guys that charged 2.65 or 3.00 a square foot instead though - hindsight is 20 - 20.