How do you know if the hardwood floor you have are able to be saved?

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  • Shoshana Shoshana on Jun 07, 2017

    Most of the time, you can refinish a hardwood floor, replace boards, make repairs and save your floors. Would you want to send us a picture or describe the state of your floors? Maybe we can help you get them back to their former glory

  • Sharon Sharon on Jun 08, 2017

    There is hardwood, usually found in older homes, and then there is engineered hardwood that is a veneer of hardwood over a substrate of cheaper wood. The real hardwoods can be sanded and redone several times, cause its solid wood.

    The engineered hardwoods, can't be refinished many times cause the veneer is not too thick. i.e. wears out faster.

    So do you know when these floors were put in the house? You might pry up a threshold, so you can see a board on whether its consistent hardwood all the way through, or if it looks like a sandwich of a couple different materials. If its engineered I would get a pro to sand it, so all the veneer isn't removed. You could do the staining and sealing afterwards if you want to save money.