Hardwood floor refinishing
The most common job we get called about, and the place to start if your floor looks tired.
Contact
Contact Flooring Masters Manhattan
Tell us what the floor is doing and what building it is in. That is usually enough for us to place the job on the first call.
Send us the details
Fill in as much as you know. If you are not sure what the job is, describe what you are looking at and we will tell you.
What to have ready
None of this is required to get in touch. Having it makes the first conversation a lot shorter.
What the floor is doing
Worn, scratched, grey patches, a damaged area, or nothing wrong with it and you want a new one. A photograph in daylight is worth more than a paragraph.
Roughly how much floor
Which rooms, or a rough square footage if you know it. It does not need to be accurate at this stage.
What kind of building
Prewar or postwar, co-op, condo or rental, and whether there is an elevator. This changes the job more than anything else on the list.
Anything your building has told you
House rules, an alteration agreement, or the insurance wording your managing agent wants. If you have not asked yet, that is fine and we will tell you what to ask for.
When you are hoping to do it
Buildings book elevators and set work windows, so timing is worth raising early rather than late.
Would rather just talk it through? Call and describe the floor.
Call (929) 207-0334What happens next
We come back to you and work out what the job actually is. A lot of the time that conversation changes it, usually to something smaller than people expected.
If it is worth looking at in person we arrange that, because remaining thickness, the condition of a subfloor and how the machines get in are not things anyone can judge from a photograph.
Then you get a quote for the work we have agreed, and we sort out the building side with you before a date is set.
Where we work
Across Manhattan. Gramercy and Kips Bay, Murray Hill, the Upper East Side, the Upper West Side, Chelsea, Greenwich Village and the West Village, Tribeca and SoHo, Midtown East and Turtle Bay, the Financial District and Battery Park City, Harlem and Morningside Heights, the East Village and Lower East Side, and Washington Heights, Inwood and Roosevelt Island.
Before you call
Do you need to see the floor before quoting?
For most jobs, yes. The things that decide the price are things you have to look at, particularly how much thickness is left in an old floor and what condition the subfloor is in.
For a straightforward recoat or a small repair we can often give you a good idea from photographs first, so you know roughly where you stand before anyone visits.
What does my building need to give you?
Usually the house rules for alterations, and the exact wording they want on a certificate of insurance. Many buildings also have their own alteration agreement.
Your managing agent is the person to ask. Getting that early is the single best thing you can do to stop a start date slipping.
I am not sure which service I need.
That is the most common reason people get in touch, and it is a short conversation. Describe what you are seeing and we will tell you whether it is a repair, a recoat, a refinish or a new floor.
We will also tell you when the answer is the smaller job, which it often is.
Not sure where to start?
Buff and recoat
Worn finish, sound wood. Faster and cheaper than a full sand.
Everything we do
All six services with enough on each to tell them apart.