Sanding & Varnishing
Dust-free sanding and three coats of eco Finitec varnish to bring a tired floor back.
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Pointe-Claire has the widest range of housing on the West Island — the old Village on the lake, the postwar streets that make up most of the city, and the newer condos out by Fairview. It’s the one place where you genuinely can’t know what’s under the carpet until we look.
No two streets in Pointe-Claire hide the same floor, and that’s the honest truth of working here — it has the widest spread of housing on the West Island, which means you genuinely can’t know what’s under the carpet until someone looks.
Down in the Village and the older core along Lake Saint-Louis — the oldest residential blocks in the area — we turn up the oldest floors: narrow-strip hardwood, and now and then a parquet or herringbone laid by hand.
Across most of the city sits the postwar suburban belt, the streets that filled in through the boom of the 1950s and 60s. This is the standard refinishing job: solid oak strip, laid before engineered floors existed, the kind that sands to bare wood and comes back beautifully ten to twelve times over.
And out toward Fairview and the Highway 40 corridor, where the newer condos and townhouses cluster, the picture changes again — that’s where engineered flooring over a concrete slab starts to appear, which is a different conversation entirely.
Because the range is this wide, Pointe-Claire is the town where an on-site look matters most — and it’s the free part. A narrow-strip or solid parquet floor can be sanded and refinished, but it’s slower, more careful work than a standard strip floor, and we price it as such. A thin engineered parquet, or engineered planks over a slab near the highway, often can’t be sanded at all. We’ll tell you which you have before you commit, rather than promise a refinish the floor can’t take.
Around Pointe-Claire the housing settles into clearer patterns — Beaconsfield’s original oak, Kirkland’s newer pre-finished floors, Dorval’s airport-area condos and the split-levels of Dollard-des-Ormeaux — and we cover them all.
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.
Dust-free sanding 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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Board matching, water-damage repair and our 3-step refection for worn spots.
Learn moreHonestly, not here — it’s the one town where we can’t guess. The Village hides narrow-strip and parquet, the postwar streets are usually solid oak, and near Fairview and the highway it’s often engineered over a slab. An on-site look is the only way to know what you have, and it’s free.
Yes, easily. Pointe-Claire borders Dollard-des-Ormeaux, so it’s one of the closest towns to our shop — usually a same-week visit for a quote, with no travel surcharge. The rest of the West Island, Laval, the North Shore and Vaudreuil-Soulanges are covered too.
Often, yes — older Pointe-Claire homes near the Village sometimes have solid parquet, and it can be sanded and refinished, just more slowly and carefully than a strip floor. If it turns out to be a thin engineered parquet, though, it can’t be sanded, and we’ll tell you that before quoting.
Tell us what you’re working with and we’ll get back to you with a clear, no-obligation quote.