Hardwood Floor Cleaning in Waller, TX
A deep covered porch is the most effective floor protection ever invented and half the houses built since 1980 do not have one.
The older houses in Waller and out along Field Store and the FM 362 corridor almost all have a real porch: covered, deep enough to stand under in rain, with somewhere to put your boots and a door that opens onto it instead of onto the weather.
That was not a stylistic decision. It was a working part of the building, and one of the jobs it did was keep the outside out of the house. Everything about it, the depth, the roof over it, the step up from the yard, was solving a problem that the weather out here presents about ninety days a year.
You can see the difference in the floors.
What a Porch Actually Does
It gives water somewhere to fall that is not your threshold, so the two feet of floor inside the door does not get wet forty times a year. It gives grit a place to drop off a boot before the boot reaches wood. And it gives people a natural pause, a place to stop and scrape and change shoes, which no doorway on a bare slab ever provides. Three jobs, none of which require any effort from the household. It is worth noticing that the newest houses in the county have quietly given all three of them up in exchange for square footage inside.
Houses Without One
A newer house with a shallow entry and a door opening straight to a walkway gets everything: rain blowing onto the threshold, grit walked directly onto the finish, and nobody pausing because there is nowhere to pause. The floor inside those doors goes dull three or four years before the rest of the house, and it is the most common single complaint we get about newer construction anywhere in the county. Owners usually assume the flooring was cheap. Usually it was the entry that was cheap.
Building the Missing Function
You do not need to build a porch. A large stiff scraper mat outside the door, an absorbent mat inside it, and something to sit on within reach of both reproduces most of what a porch does for a few dollars. The seat is the part people skip and it matters more than either mat, because a person who has to balance on one foot is a person who keeps their shoes on.
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 Waller
Waller and the surrounding country are covered from 936-213-0004, booking is available on this site, and fifty dollars comes off your first job.
Areas we cover around Waller
Neighborhoods: Waller proper, Field Store area, FM 362 corridor
Zip codes: 77484
Hardwood questions from Waller homeowners
Our entry floor is already dull and the rest of the house is fine. Fixable?
Usually, and it depends on whether the dullness is film and fine scratching or the finish being gone. The first cleans and coats well. The second is bare wood and needs a refinisher, which is a trade we do not work in.
Do you clean just the entry and hall?
Yes, and for a lot of households out here that is the sensible job. There is no reason to pay to clean bedrooms that get walked on twice a day.
Does the old house or the new house clean up better?
Old floors with a sound finish often clean up more dramatically, because there is more accumulated product on them to remove, and because nobody has cleaned them properly in thirty years. Newer floors have less on them and less to gain, which is not a reason to skip them.
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