Etobicoke dining room

What the job actually involved

Installed overnight across four nights so the room opened Friday. Ash was chosen because it hides the scuffs a walnut floor would advertise by week three. Maintenance is a monthly clean and a yearly oil, written into the chef's closing list.

Specification

• Overnight phasing
• Wide-plank ash
• Commercial oil
• Feature wall

The job type behind this

Each entry carries the published 2026 band, the sequence, and the failure modes that produce a second invoice.

• Commercial install on overnight shifts

  Hardwood installed or refinished in a trading business across consecutive overnight shifts, with the space open for service each day.

  3 ways it goes wrong

What goes wrong on a job like this

• A residential finish specified for a commercial floor

  It wears through in the traffic lane inside a year, and the recoat closes the business anyway — the exact outcome the overnight schedule was bought to avoid.

  Avoided by: Specifying for the traffic the floor will actually take.

• A cure window that does not fit between close and open

  Either service opens onto an uncured floor and marks it permanently, or the business loses the day it was promised it would not.

  Avoided by: Choosing the product to the schedule, and being honest when the schedule will not take it.

All 3 failure modes for commercial install on overnight shifts

Taking this on in Etobicoke

Free on-site measure for any qualified hardwood, stair, or railing job.

Etobicoke is 6 km from the Sterling Road workshop, and 12 of the twelve job types in the catalogue are taken here. Site-finished oak, walnut stair features, restaurant and boutique commercial along Bloor and the lake.