Service area
Wood Floors in Newark, DE
We sand, refinish, install and rebuild wood floors and stairs in Newark, DE. The median home here dates to 1977, and 4.7% of the housing was built before 1940, which is what decides whether your floor is a refinish or a restoration.
- County
- New Castle County, DE
- From our base
- 45.9 miles
- Population
- 30,309
- Housing units
- 10,002
- Median year built
- 1977
- Built before 1940
- 4.7%
- Built before 1978
- approximately 51.4%
- Owner occupied
- 50.3%
What is usually under the floor here
Two and a quarter inch red oak nailed over a wood subfloor, which is the case that refinishes best.
Postwar housing in this region was built with a plywood or board subfloor and solid red oak strip on top, most commonly two and a quarter inches wide. It is the standard floor of the American postwar house and it is the easiest thing we work on: predictable thickness, predictable fastening, predictable result.
The question in this stock is more often the subfloor than the wood on top of it. Squeaks, deflection and movement come from below, and sanding a floor that moves gives you a smooth floor that still moves.
Worth knowing here
Red oak has a pink undertone that shows through most stain colors. If you are aiming for the cooler tones that are fashionable now, that gets tested on a sample board before anything is committed.
Whether the federal lead rule applies depends on the house
Approximately 51.4% of the homes here predate 1978, so it comes down to the specific address.
This is a place where the housing stock straddles the 1978 line the EPA rule draws. Roughly half the addresses are covered and roughly half are not, which means the answer is per house rather than per town.
Where it does apply, the rule governs how the sander is set up: containment and a HEPA vacuum collecting dust where it is generated. We check the age of the house before deciding how the work is staged.
What the work here usually looks like
The work here runs the normal range: refinishing floors that are still sound, installing new where they are not, and stairs.
Delaware handles contractor requirements differently from both Pennsylvania and New Jersey, through state business licensing rather than a home improvement registry.
What we do in Newark
Hardwood Floor RefinishingSand the old finish off, repair what needs repairing, and put a new finish down
Dustless Floor SandingVacuum-extraction sanding
Solid Hardwood Floor InstallationSolid wood, nailed down over a wood subfloor
Engineered Hardwood InstallationReal wood over a stable core
Luxury Vinyl Plank (LVP) InstallationWaterproof, quiet, and it does not care about a wet basement
Custom Stair InstallationTreads, risers, stringers and skirt board, built to a drawing instead of a catalog page
Stair RefinishingStairs take more wear per square foot than any floor in the house, and they are sanded almost entirely by hand
Hardwood Floor RepairBoard replacement, weaving in new wood, squeaks, gaps and cupping
Questions
Do you actually work in Newark?
Yes. Newark sits 45.9 miles from our base in Philadelphia, inside the area we cover. We quote the job before we schedule it, so you know the answer before anyone commits.
Can you tell me what my floor needs over the phone?
We can tell you what is likely, and this page is most of that answer. What we cannot do is quote a floor we have not seen, because remaining thickness and what is under the covering both decide the job and neither is visible in a description.
Do you bring the material?
Yes. We buy direct from the distributor and the material lands in the same number as the labor. Samples and larger offcuts come to the house so you choose in your own light.
My floor squeaks. Will refinishing fix it?
No. Squeaks come from movement between the floor and the subfloor, and sanding the surface does not change what is happening underneath. Those get addressed before the floor is finished, not after.
Towns near here
Send a photo and we will tell you what you are looking at
Wood floor work in Newark starts with someone reading the house. We quote every job ourselves, with no salesperson in between, and a photo of the floor gets you a straight answer faster than a form does.
