What is the correct machine sequence for refinishing a hardwood floor?

All four machines, in sequence, with intercoat screening. Equipment is not the difference between companies — the sequence and the discipline to complete it are.

What does dustless hardwood refinishing actually mean in an occupied Toronto home?

Require HEPA-sealed extraction and room containment in the written scope. Stay home if you want to — that is a realistic outcome when the system is real. Treat dustless claims without equipment detail as incomplete.

Dustless hardwood floor sanding in Toronto and the GTA

Containment at the source, measured at the machine — and what it means for whether you can stay in the house.

HEPA-sealed containment captures ~99.7% of airborne dust at the source, so most clients stay home during the work.

The standard

How this work is judged

These are the Well-Installed Framework pillars this service is scored against. The framework is published, versioned and free to cite — use it on our quote, and on everyone else’s.

Pillar

Dust containment and sequence

Sanding and finishing is a sequence of machines, each of which does something the others cannot. This pillar establishes that the sequence was complete and the dust was contained.

5 criteria

The method

What the technique actually is

Nothing on this page asserts a technique that is not set out in full in a published paper. These are the sections that establish it.

Paper section

The belt sander, and where the dust is actually made

The Craft

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Before you decide

The questions this service turns on

Each answer is the recommendation of a published decision guide, not a paragraph written for this page. Follow the link for the criteria behind it.

What is the correct machine sequence for refinishing a hardwood floor?: All four machines, in sequence, with intercoat screening. Equipment is not the difference between companies — the sequence and the discipline to complete it are. Read the guide.
What does dustless hardwood refinishing actually mean in an occupied Toronto home?: Require HEPA-sealed extraction and room containment in the written scope. Stay home if you want to — that is a realistic outcome when the system is real. Treat dustless claims without equipment detail as incomplete. Read the guide.

Vocabulary

Terms used on this page

HEPA dust containment: High-efficiency extraction maintained throughout the sanding and finishing process, not only at final cleanup.

Coverage

Where this service is delivered

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Every area above has its own page: the housing stock, the neighbourhoods and the constraint that is specific to it. See all service areas.

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