Good Questions: West Village Floor Refinisher Tip?

Hello AT,

My boyfriend and I live in this cute little 1 bedroom West Village
apartment and we have those overly common not-so-nice hardwood floors. Can anyone recommend a good quality, yet inexpensive company or person that can rejuvenate our sad wood floors. Any help would be greatly appreciated!

Thanks a lot, D and K

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Dear D and K,

We highly recommend Vincent DeVaney and - if your floor isn't so bad - we recommend Verathane Renewal.

That said, we would love some other floor refinishing references. Anyone got a good one?

Best, Maxwell

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I recently used Sullivan Flooring Service (212-353-3490) and they were excellent - the floors came up better than I could have expected, everyone I dealt with were professional - a pleasure to deal with. I actually found them on AT - search 'Sullivan'. Good luck

Don't have a good refinisher...but since we are on the topic - how many of you would refinish floors in a rental, at your own cost?

My floors are, and have always been terrible. The finish is pooled in some areas so it looks like a puddle, and non-existent in others.

That being said, I've lived there for seven years, and don't plan on moving anytime soon. If I would have re-finished them when I first moved in, I would have gotten all these years use out of the money I spent!

We recently had our Soho apt. floors redone-- they were original to the building, circa 1890s, and in sad sad shape. We contacted Brewse of Summit Flooring-- I found Brewe on brownstoner. com. He is very professional-- he actually stopped by our apt to give us a quote the very day that we contacted him. And while I had anticipated ripping out the old boards and leveling the floor-- a much bigger job, he 'down-sold' us, and convinced us to keep the original floors. They look awesome, thanks to some sanding, and some water-based poly.

Brewse Monier-Williams
bmw@summitsurfaces.com
Summit Surfaces
150 Prospect Park West, Brooklyn. New York
t. 646-284-0304 f. 718.360.5782
www.summitsurfaces.com

Thanks for the feedback so far. we're renting this apartment and we don't really want to spend a lot of money, are these places reasonable?

Thanks,

D & K

Hi D,

We used Sullivan and paid $750 to have the floors in our studio refinished. This was the minimum amount that they charge - if we were paying per sq ft it would have been cheaper than $750, but I understand that it has to be worth their while to take on smaller jobs. The result was well worth the $750.

Hope thsi helps.

ACE FLOORING

I have recommended Ace Flooring in the past, and I would recommend them again.

Call Ray (718) 460-1643

He did a wonderful job installing our bamboo floors, at a very resoanable price.

Tell him Chris & Holly referred you.

Sullivan floors - I used them to replace my floors and they were great. very reasonable, easy to work with, high quality. No hesitations in reccomending them!

DO NOT USE ACE FLOORING - Ray will take your money and not fulfill the job. This happened to at least 2 people.

Ace flooring is great they did a wonderfull job for me on my floors at a fair price highly rec them

We just got our floors re-redone. The first time our GC used "his guys" and - although we described how we wanted to have the floors look and feel like wood, not a shiny plasticized basketball court - they did a terrible job of glopping a bunch of polyurethane on our beautiful original mahogany inlay parquet floors. Then came our heroes Martin (347) 234-3597 and his partner Carlos. They are real craftsman and ably handled a fairly challenging floor refinishing job (old parquet, very uneven, quite a few board to replace and match etc.) leaving us the floors of our dreams. They are pleasant, professional, considerate, neat, and reasonably priced and I can't recommend them highly enough.

The more I read about ACE flooring, the scarier it gets. Ray is a scam artist and has taken my money, and it sounds like it has happened to others too. It seems that some people have positive reviews(maybe bigger jobs that he didn't want to lose out on), but you can't ignore that he has taken deposits and run from several people. Beware of his company aliases: A & A flooring, A & B flooring, RLS Flooring, RLS maintenance. Obviously he is running from something with all of the company name changes. No reputable person does that.