Experienced Hardwood Flooring Refinishing Professionals throughout Sandy Plains

GA Flooring provides expert hardwood floor refinishing in Sandy Plains, Georgia. Professional hardwood flooring refinishing services can restore your hardwood to its original beauty. Our team offers a dustless refinishing service that will guarantee to return the original beauty to your hardwood floors.

For years our team at GA Flooring, Inc has been refinishing hardwood flooring, and returning floors to their original beauty. Our team strives to provide premium hardwood flooring refinishing services ensuring that your floors will look like new.

What Type Of Refinishing Do I need?

The two main types of hardwood flooring refinishing compounds are oil based and water based. The main differences between water based and oil based polyurethane is drying type, odor, price, and color. Many on-site finished hardwoods use an oil based compound for hardwood finishing. Prefinished wood can be water or oil based. If you have site finished wood in your home, it is probably oil based. Be aware that if you change to water based, it will look different. Below you will find several FAQ's about the different types of hardwood refinishing compounds.

Oil Modified Polyurethane (OMU)

• Is a solvent based polyurethane, contains mineral spirit.
• Much higher in VOCs (Volatile Organic Compounds).
• Over time the color can change, darkening or becoming more orange
• Longer lasting odor.
• Deep saturation of the oil allows for darker and richer tones
• Oiled wood tends to have a muted shine
• Darker color tones.
• Drying time per coat is at least 8 hours (high humidity, low temperature, lack of air movement cause this to vary—sometimes 24 hours plus is needed!) Need to wait overnight between coats.
• Curing— allow finish to cure for 24 hours from final coat before foot traffic and 30 days before placing area rugs. The floor may be walked on (light foot traffic only!) and after about 12 hours after second coat, but remains susceptible to scuffing and marring until completely cured. Use only a dry microfiber mop or cloth for cleaning during the first week or two—no liquid cleaners!

Water Based/Water Borne Polyurethane

• You can conceivably do a coat every 2-4 hours. This takes 1-2 days off the job versus oil based poly which allows the homeowner to get back to their routine/life sooner.
• Coatings will dry enough to walk on in a few hours
• Cost is more expensive (additional charge to use).
• 70% cured after 1 day, 90% cured after 3 days, fully cured in approximately 7 days so area rugs can be placed down after 7 days. Use only a dry microfiber mop or cloth for cleaning during the first week or two—no liquid cleaners!
• VOC compliant.
• Best for natural and light to medium stains, not dark stains.
• Because it sets up so fast, there is little penetration into the wood.
• Feels/looks more “plastic”; tends to have greater reflection and shine.

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