Sanding & Varnishing
The right clear or stained finish and three coats of eco Finitec varnish to bring a tired floor back.
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Beaconsfield filled in after the war, through the 1950s and 60s, on the big low-density lots the town is still known for. Homes from that era were floored in solid oak — and a lot of it is still there under the carpet, barely touched.
When we pull back broadloom in a Beaconsfield home, we’re often looking at the original solid oak strip floor, laid when the house was built in the 1950s or 60s and covered not long after. A floor like that has usually only been sanded once, or never — which is the best case there is.
A solid strip floor can be sanded ten to twelve times in its life. One that’s on its first or second sand has decades of refinishes left in it, and it takes a light, clean cut to bring back — less aggressive sanding, less wood removed, a better result. The wide, mature lots Beaconsfield was planned around also tend to mean bigger main floors, so there’s usually real square footage to restore at once.
The catch is what’s on top. Original mid-century floors sometimes wear an old, ambered varnish or, from a later renovation, a paint-on finish that has to be fully cut through before the wood shows clean. We’ll tell you which you have when we quote — but under almost all of it, the wood is worth saving.
Not every Beaconsfield floor is a first sand. Some have already been refinished three or four times by previous owners, and once a solid strip is sanded down past the tongue — the groove that locks the boards together — there isn’t enough wood left to take another cut safely. You can often see it in the gap opening at the boards’ edges, or the floor sitting low against thresholds. Where a floor is truly spent, we’ll say so and talk about replacement, rather than sell you a sand that won’t last.
Next door in Pointe-Claire you can never guess what’s under the carpet — the widest range of floors on the island — and up in Kirkland you’re far more likely to hit factory pre-finished floors — different jobs, both ones we do, along with Dollard-des-Ormeaux.
Three things, done properly. The details live on each service page — and if you’re wondering what goes into a quote, we break that down too.
The right clear or stained finish and three coats of eco Finitec varnish to bring a tired floor back.
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New hardwood when a floor is past saving — a range of woods, grades and board widths.
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A few honest signs: boards sitting noticeably low against door thresholds, a thinning of the boards you can feel at a floor vent or stair nosing, and gaps opening between boards. If you’re not sure, we’ll measure it at the quote — there’s no charge to find out.
Yes — Beaconsfield is a few minutes west of our shop in Dollard-des-Ormeaux, so it’s an easy same-week visit, no travel surcharge. We cover the rest of the West Island, Laval, the North Shore and Vaudreuil-Soulanges as well.
Almost always refinish. Original solid oak on its first or second sand is the best floor you can own — decades of life left, and a light sand brings it back for less than a new floor would cost. We’d only steer you to replacement if the boards are past the tongue or structurally gone.
Let us take a look before you cover it up again. Tell us about your floors and we’ll come back with a clear, no-obligation quote.