Samples on Your Own Wood
Three or four hopeful shades go on in a row across freshly sanded wood, and you watch how each of the stain colors behaves in your window light first.
Three or four hopeful shades go on in a row across freshly sanded wood, and you watch how each of the stain colors behaves in your window light first.
Stain exposes every little swirl mark, so the last sanding pass uses a fine grit, and we vacuum the room two full times before any color touches the wood.
Color goes on with a lambswool pad, the surplus wiped up before it can soak, which keeps the tone steady wall to wall and leaves no dark rings along the trim.
Our own employees do the staining, NWFA trained, licensed, insured. Their labor is guaranteed twelve months, counted from when the last layer of finish has dried.



Staining runs $2.00/Sq Ft. Since stain needs bare wood, it is normally booked together with sanding and refinishing, $2.50/Sq Ft, and both numbers are laid out at the free visit.
Yes. We sand one small patch and brush three or four samples right on your floor. Look at them in your own light over a day and pick the one you like.
Red oak carries a warm undertone that peeks through light and gray stains. We can tone it first, or point you to shades that work with that warmth.
Darker floors do show dust and paw prints a bit more. We say so up front and can suggest a mid brown if you want something more forgiving.
Nearly always. We mix and test samples on fresh wood until they agree with the room next door, so the two floors read as one.
Stain dries first, then the clear finish is layered over it. Once that last layer has cured for about a day, walking on it barefoot or in clean slippers is fine.
Staining is sanding work, so it is split down the middle: half on our first morning in the house, the remainder after the clear finish is all on.
Yes. For twelve months our licensed, insured people stand behind their labor. If the color goes wrong because of our work, we come back and correct it.