Hardwood Floor Cleaning in Alvin, TX
A floor that has had nothing done to it since 1998 is not necessarily a floor in trouble. It is usually a floor under a lot of accumulated product.
A good share of the older housing in Alvin, through Hillcrest Village, Callaway Heights, and West Alvin, has original wood that has been swept, mopped, and left alone for two or three decades. Nobody has ever had it professionally cleaned and nobody has ever put anything on it beyond whatever was under the sink.
Owners of those floors tend to assume the worst, which is that the wood is worn out and the only remaining option is replacement. Flooring salespeople rarely talk them out of it.
That is occasionally true and it is far more often wrong, and there are four things worth checking before anybody spends money.
How Thick the Buildup Is
Twenty-five years of a cleaning product that leaves a residue, plus paste wax if the house is old enough, produces a layer thick enough to be measured. Press a thumbnail into an out-of-the-way spot and see whether it marks. A soft surface that takes a print is product, not finish, and it means a large part of what you are looking at is not the floor at all. That is very good news, because product comes off.
Whether the Finish Is Continuous
Crouch at the end of the main lane and look along it. If the whole floor is dull but the color is consistent, the coating is thin and intact and there is a great deal to work with. If the lanes have gone lighter and grayer than the surround, the finish is gone in those areas and the wood is open, which is a refinishing question and not a cleaning one.
What Is Under the Furniture
Slide out a bookcase or lift a rug that has been down for years. The floor underneath has been protected from everything, so it shows you what the rest of the room could look like. Owners are consistently surprised by the difference, and it is the most persuasive evidence available about whether a cleaning is worth doing. It costs nothing and it takes about a minute.
Not sure whether your floor needs cleaning or refinishing? There are three tests you can run yourself in about a minute, and they will tell you which one you are dealing with before anyone quotes you.
Hardwood problems we handle in Alvin
Move a bookcase and look at the floor under it before you decide your floor is finished.
Alvin: 281-299-0573, or book through this page. Fifty dollars comes off a first visit.
Areas we cover around Alvin
Neighborhoods: Mustang Crossing, Savannah Plantation, Meridiana, Hillcrest Village, Callaway Heights, Blackstone, Highland Meadow, West Alvin
Zip codes: 77511, 77512
Hardwood questions from Alvin homeowners
Is old wax really going to be a problem?
It has to come off before any coating can bond, and taking it off is a normal part of the visit once we know it is there. A white cloth and a little mineral spirits in a hidden corner settles the question in a minute, and it is the first thing our technician checks in a house of this age.
The floor has never been recoated. Is that bad?
It means the original finish has done all the work for thirty years, which is impressive and means it is thin. That is exactly the situation where a protective coat earns its keep, since from that point the coat takes the wear instead of what is left underneath.
How much of a difference will we see?
On a floor with decades of buildup, more than on almost any other job we do. The most common reaction in a house like this is that people did not know their floor was that color.
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