- Bona dust containment — 99%+ capture, occupied-home friendly
- Full sand or screen-and-recoat depending on remaining wear layer
- Custom stain matching to stairs, millwork, and adjacent rooms
- Bona Traffic HD and Loba 2K systems for dogs, kids, and condos
Refinishing is the highest-ROI hardwood job in the GTA. A tired red-oak floor from 1998, sanded correctly and finished in a modern matte, outperforms a cheap vinyl plank at a fraction of replacement cost.
We do not 'dustless-sand' with a shop vac taped to a rental drum. Green Hardwood runs professional containment: perimeter sealing, negative air where needed, and a sanding sequence (open-coat belts, then multi-disc) that does not dish the edges or leave chatter.
Finish choice is a performance spec. Waterborne two-component (Bona Traffic HD, Loba 2K) for condos and commercial. Hardwax oil for owners who want a repairable, low-sheen European look and will maintain it. Oil-modified only when the client wants that warmer amber and accepts the odour window.
If the floor has already been sanded to the nails, we will tell you and quote replacement. Sanding a floor that has no wear layer left is how you buy a new floor twice.
Related GTA work
What sanding & refinishing looks like
What to look at: The traffic lanes and the grey, and whether the grain comes back rather than gets buried under a darker stain.
Illustrative rendering, not documentary job photography. We will not put a manufactured before-and-after in front of you.
Where we take sanding & refinishing
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.
Sanding & Refinishing
Hardwood Sanding, Finishing & Refinishing across the GTA
- Municipalities
- 32
- Core
- 20
- We travel
- 12
- Worked examples
- 2
- 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
- Forest Hill heritage restorationSanding & refinishing, Forest Hill, Toronto
- Richmond Hill occupied refinishSanding & refinishing, Richmond Hill
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.
- EdgerA hand-held disc machine that sands the six inches around the perimeter of a room that the big machine physically cannot reach.
- Multi-disc sander (buffer)A machine with several counter-rotating heads that blends scratch patterns and abrades an existing finish without cutting into the wood.
- 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.
- Finish application: T-bar, roller and cut-inThe applicators and the sequence that put a two-component waterborne system on the floor without lap marks, and the cure schedule that follows.
Commissioned illustration of the machine class, not a photograph of our own equipment.