- Flood and dishwasher leak board replacement with grain match
- Cupping and crowning correction after moisture events
- Pet stains, burns, and high-heel crater repair
- Heritage restoration on quarter-sawn oak in Forest Hill, Rosedale, High Park
The test of a hardwood company is not a new floor in a new house. It is replacing four boards in a 15-year-old red oak kitchen so the owner cannot find the seam.
Water is the usual caller: ice-maker lines, second-floor baths, and spring seepage in older Toronto foundations. We measure moisture, isolate the wet zone, and do not sand the whole floor until the replacement boards have acclimated to the same moisture content as the field.
Matching species, grade, and grain direction matters more than matching colour on day one. Colour we can stain. Grain we cannot invent. We keep a library of GTA-typical oak, maple, and walnut so we are not buying a 'close enough' board from a big-box store.
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What repairs looks like
What to look at: Where the replaced boards are. On a job that went right, you should not be able to tell.
Illustrative rendering, not documentary job photography. We will not put a manufactured before-and-after in front of you.
Where we take repairs
Pins are service coverage and published bands, not a record of past jobs. Open one for the local band and what we take on there.
Repairs
Hardwood Repairs & Restoration across the GTA
- Municipalities
- 20
- Core
- 20
- We travel
- 0
- Worked examples
- 1
- Studio & workshop — Sterling Road. Stair components are built here, then fitted on site.
- Core service area — Free on-site measure for any qualified hardwood, stair or railing job.
- Extended range — We travel here for stair packages, whole-home installs and refinishing — not a single-room repair.
- Worked example — A specification we build to, pinned at the municipality centre. Not a client record and not an address.
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Worked examples on this map
- Mississauga water-damage repairRepairs, Mississauga
Worked examples are specifications this shop builds to, pinned at the municipality centre — not a client record, not an address, and not a claim that a job happened on your street.
What this job runs on
The equipment classes this work depends on, and what a shop without each one does instead. Worth reading before you compare quotes.
- Belt sander (the big machine)The primary cutting machine that takes a hardwood floor back to bare wood across the open field of a room.
- Dust containment and HEPA extractionThe extraction and isolation system that captures sanding dust at the machine and keeps the rest out of the house.
- Moisture meters and hygrometersThe instruments that decide whether a floor can be installed at all, and the reason this shop will not give a firm number over the phone.
Commissioned illustration of the machine class, not a photograph of our own equipment.