Hardwood Floor Cleaning in Keller, TX
The game room over the garage has the worst environment for a wood floor in the whole house, and it is the room most likely to have one.
The bonus room over the garage is close to universal in the Keller housing stock. Hidden Lakes, Marshall Ridge, Highland Creek Estates, Heatherwood. Big open span upstairs, usually the last room on the duct run, and increasingly likely to have wood in it because it is where the pool table and the media setup went.
That room is thermally the odd one out, and wood floors respond to that.
Understanding why explains most of what people notice up there and cannot account for.
What Is Underneath It
A garage, which is not conditioned, which in August runs well over a hundred degrees and in January drops to whatever it is outside. The floor assembly between the two is insulated in newer builds and often is not in anything from before 2000. So the underside of your bonus room floor is experiencing a completely different climate from the top, and it swings hard twice a year.
Why the Room Is Also Drier and Hotter Than the Rest of the House
Long duct run, one or two registers, a big volume of air, and a roof plane directly overhead. Bonus rooms are famously hard to keep at temperature, which means the air in them spends a lot of the year outside the range the rest of the house sits in. Wood in that room shrinks and swells more than the same wood downstairs.
What You Will Notice, and Which Parts Matter
Wider seasonal gaps than downstairs, a squeak or two that comes and goes with the weather, and sometimes a board with a slightly raised edge in summer. None of that is a finish problem and none of it is fixed by cleaning. What is worth doing is keeping a coat on the floor, because the film in a game room comes from a specific set of sources, which is food, drink, and a lot of socks.
The Realistic Version of What We Do Up There
Take off the accumulated film, put a water-based maintenance coat on, and be straight about the rest. There is no sanding, refinishing, or re-staining on our jobs, so a gouge from a dropped weight or a dent under a pool table leg is not going anywhere. If the floor up there moves seasonally, it will keep moving after we have been, and telling you that beforehand is part of the job.
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 Keller
Do the bonus room in the same visit as the downstairs and the difference between the two floors stops being visible from the landing. Keller books on 214-838-7476 or online. Take $50 off the first cleaning.
Areas we cover around Keller
Neighborhoods: Hidden Lakes, Bourland Oaks, Overton Ridge, Highland Oaks, Marshall Ridge, Highland Creek Estates, Heatherwood Estates, Quail Valley Estates, Willis Lane Estates, Shady Grove
Zip codes: 76244, 76248
Hardwood questions from Keller homeowners
Can we improve the seasonal movement?
Insulating the garage ceiling and getting the room properly on the system does more than anything else. It is not our trade, but it is the answer, and it also makes the room usable in August.
Is engineered plank a better choice for a bonus room?
Generally yes, for movement. It is worse for anything involving moisture, and thin veneer gives you very little to work with over time. Neither is wrong. They fail differently.
How long is the room out of action?
Walkable in around half an hour. The furniture and the rugs want to stay off for a full day after that.
Which Keller neighborhoods does the crew reach?
All of them, Bourland Oaks and Overton Ridge and Willis Lane Estates included, and out to Southlake, Colleyville, North Richland Hills, Saginaw, Fort Worth, and Dallas.
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