Plain answers to the questions we get asked in living rooms across the county. No filler, no scare tactics, just what we have learned sanding floors here.
Nobody should have to host a salesperson just to hear a number. The full published rate card, the seven lines a written quote has to include, and the pricing games Michigan consumer officials say should end the conversation.
A strip oak floor only has four or five sandings in it, and a bad crew can waste one in an afternoon. The Michigan license rule most homeowners have never heard of, the seven questions worth asking, and the red flags that end the call early.
Board edges lifting so the room catches light in ripples? That is cupping, it is a moisture problem before it is a sanding problem, and sanding it at the wrong time makes it worse. Here is how we handle it around Saginaw Bay.