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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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.