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Green Hardwood

Water · Pets · Gaps · Board replacement

Invisible hardwood repairs — cupping, floods, pet damage, and matching 20-year-old oak.

Board replacement, cupping correction, gap filling, structural sistering, and stain matching on heritage and contemporary floors. Emergency water-damage response across the GTA.

From $650 minimum · $18–$35 / sq ft affected · Most repairs: 1–3 days plus finish cure

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Craftsman fitting a grain-matched replacement white oak board into a water-damaged hardwood floor.
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  • 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.

Related GTA work

Grain-matched replacement boards being fitted into a water-damaged oak floor.

Mississauga water-damage repair

Emergency board replacement after a supply-line flood. 15-year-old red oak, invisible seams.

Questions about repairs

Repairs city by city

Housing stock, local price band, and the jobs we actually get called for — written per city, because a King West slab is not a Forest Hill joist.

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Installation

Precision solid and engineered hardwood installation for new builds, gut renovations, and room-by-room upgrades. Subfloor, moisture, and acclimation come first — the finish is the last 10%.

Stairs

Box stairs, open-riser, replacement treads over carpet, curved flights, and full stair rebuilds. The stair is the first thing guests touch. We treat it as millwork, not leftover flooring.

Railings

Custom oak, maple, and walnut handrails, box and turned newels, metal or wood balusters, volutes, goosenecks, and wall-mounted rails that actually meet code.

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