Hardwood Floor Cleaning in Pinehurst, TX
An empty house on the market for eight months is not resting. The floor is doing something the whole time.
Large custom houses on acreage take longer to sell, and around High Meadow Ranch, High Meadow Estates, Mostyn Manor Estates, and Sawmill Estates it is not unusual for a listing to sit through two seasons. Often the owners have already moved, so the house sits empty with a lockbox on the door.
Sellers assume an empty house is a house at rest. From a floor's point of view it is the opposite, because nobody is watching it and the conditions are usually being managed for cost instead of for the building.
Three things go wrong in that situation and all of them are avoidable.
The Thermostat Set for the Electric Bill
A vacant house in Montgomery County with the system set to eighty-five in July will run very little, and a system that barely runs barely dehumidifies. Interior humidity climbs into the seventies, the wood takes it up, and boards expand. Set it to something the system will actually cycle on, around seventy-eight, and the cost difference over a season is small next to what a cupped floor costs. If the house is genuinely going to sit for months, a hygrometer left in the main room and checked at each showing takes the guesswork out of it entirely.
Sun Through Uncovered Windows
Staged and empty houses usually have every blind open for showings, which is good for photographs and hard on a floor. Direct sun through a large window will fade a defined patch into a finish within a few months, and the line it leaves is sharp and permanent until years of even light bring the rest of the floor down to match. Close the blinds on the sun side between showings and open them when somebody is coming. Agents do this without complaint if you ask, and the west-facing rooms are the ones that matter.
Everybody Walking Straight In
Every showing brings two to four people who have parked on gravel or grass and who have no reason to wipe their feet in a house nobody lives in. Over eight months that is a considerable amount of unfiltered traffic on an unattended floor. A large mat inside the front door and a note asking for shoes off costs nothing and most agents are happy to enforce it. Booties in a basket work better than a sign, because people who have been handed something use it.
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 Pinehurst
Sellers and agents both book this at 281-766-0450, or through the form on this page, with fifty dollars off the first visit.
Areas we cover around Pinehurst
Neighborhoods: High Meadow Ranch, High Meadow Estates, Mostyn Manor Estates, The Village at High Meadow, Indigo Ranch, Sawmill Estates, Decker Prairie
Zip codes: 77362, 77354
Hardwood questions from Pinehurst homeowners
Should we clean the floors before listing or after we sell?
Before, and a few days ahead of photography. It is one of the few pre-listing items that shows up directly in the pictures. If the listing runs long, a second visit before the final walkthrough is worth considering.
Can you access a vacant house through a lockbox?
Yes, with the arrangement made through you or your agent in advance. It is a routine way for us to work out here.
The floor gapped over the summer while the house was empty. Will it close?
Usually, once the house is lived in and conditioned normally again. Give it a full season before deciding anything is wrong. Do not let anybody fill open gaps while the boards are contracted.
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