Hardwood floors · Millbrook & the Oxbow Valley · Est. 1978
Furniture comes and goes. The floor stays.
Hartline & Son sands, lays and repairs hardwood floors the way the first Hartline did — dustless containment on every machine, a three-coat finish, and plank repairs matched to grain that stopped being milled before your house was built.
2,900 floors since 1978 · the owner measures every job · a written five-year warranty on every finish
The shop
One trade, three generations deep
Everything Hartline does happens on your floor, in your rooms, by people whose name is on the van. We do not sub out sanding, we do not sell carpet on the side, and we have worked out of the same bay on Foundry Lane since the second Hartline hung the sign. That is the entire differentiation strategy.
Five years on the finish
If a Hartline finish peels, clouds or wears through inside five years, we come back and redo it at no charge — in writing on the estimate, not in the handshake.
Services & rates
The rate card
Prices from last quarter's finished jobs in Millbrook and the valley. The measure is free, the quote is fixed, and every line on this card already includes dustless containment and hand edging. Larger rooms and simpler layouts sit at the low end of each range.
Sand & refinish$3.90–4.90 / sq ft
The full cut, 36-grit to 120; three fresh coats; edging by hand
New floor installation$6.80–8.80 / sq ft
Solid or engineered oak, ash and walnut; nailed, glued or floated
Stair sanding$58 / step
Treads, risers and rail stripped and finished to match the floor
Stair re-tread$185 / step
Worn pine out, 40 mm white oak in, nosings matched
Plank repairfrom $16 / board
Reclaimed stock, grain- and colour-matched, woven in board by board
Screen & recoat$1.90 / sq ft
One light abrade and a fresh topcoat for floors that are tired, not damaged
The sequence
How a refinish actually goes
A whole-house refinish is five working days, start to rugs. Rooms are done one at a time, so you are never all off the floor at once.
Day 1 — Measure & meter
Ray reads the floor and the subfloor with a pin meter, marks the repairs, and leaves the written quote with you. Nothing is booked until that paper is signed.
Day 2 — Repair & fasten
Squeaks get screws, split boards get replaced, the perimeter is prepped. The dustless barrier goes up before the first machine starts.
Days 3–4 — The dustless sand
Drum and edge sanders on HEPA extraction, four cuts from 36 to 120 grit, water-popped where the grain asks for it. Dust in the filter, not on your skirting.
Day 5 — Three coats
A cut sealer, then two topcoats of waterborne or oil-modified — your call, priced the same. Light traffic in 24 hours, furniture on felt in three days.
2025 — 2026
Recent floors
Six of the forty-odd floors we finished this year, photographed at handover with nothing styled. Addresses on request — most owners are happy to let you walk their floor before you hire us to do yours.
Neighbours
Word of mouth, kept
They said dustless and I did not believe it until I wiped a shelf on the last day and the cloth came up clean. Three coats later the parlor looks like the day the house was built — 1926 grain and all.
Our stairs had sixty years of boots and one bad varnish on them. Hartline re-treaded them in oak that matches the landing so well guests assume it is original. Four days, and the banister stayed usable the whole time.
The insurer wanted the whole dining room replaced. Hartline found eleven boards of reclaimed 1930s oak, matched the grain one board at a time, and the adjuster could not find the seams. Total bill: a third of the replacement quote.
Before you call
Fair questions
The five we get on every first phone call. If yours is not here, Ray answers the number at the bottom of this page between seven and five.
How dusty is "dustless"?
Every machine — drum sander, edger, buffer — runs into a HEPA extractor, and every doorway gets a sealed barrier with negative air. There is a film of dust on nothing you own when we leave; we wipe the skirting ourselves to prove it.
Can we stay in the house?
Yes. We work a floor at a time, and waterborne finishes carry almost no odour and cure in 24–48 hours. Oil-modified smells like a workshop for two days; if you are sensitive, we will talk you into waterborne and it will still outlast the mortgage.
When does the furniture come back?
Light sock traffic the morning after the last coat, furniture on felt pads after 72 hours, rugs after a week. We leave a card on the counter with the dates already written on it.
Solid or engineered?
Either, if the wear layer is honest. We lay engineered with 4 mm of sandable veneer — two full refinishes in it — and we will talk you out of anything thinner.
Can you match a floor from the thirties?
Usually. We keep a reclaimed rack behind the shop and buy whole lots of demolition stock for exactly this. The Aldermill repair on this page was matched from a 1929 barn outside Oxbow.
The autumn sanding calendar is filling — measures usually happen within the week. (555) 014-2876 · hello@hartlinefloors.example
Get the number in writing
Tell us the room, the age of the floor and what you want it to do. Ray measures personally, meters the subfloor himself, and the fixed quote is in your inbox within two business days. hello@hartlinefloors.example