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Flooring

The 1958 oak floor in the dining room that has been hidden under wall-to-wall for thirty years and finally pulled. The 1990s laminate in the kitchen that has swelled at the dishwasher and lifted at the seams. The bathroom tile that cracked at the toilet flange when the previous owner reset it. The carpet in the living room that has been stretched twice and is still wrinkling at the doorway. The soft spot at the top of the stairs that the inspector flagged and nobody fixed. Flooring is the largest single visible surface in the house — finished right, it resets the whole room; finished wrong, it telegraphs corner-cutting for the next ten years. Handis covers six service families as a finish-carpentry trade — hardwood install and refinish, luxury vinyl and laminate, tile floors, carpet, subfloor and prep, and stairs and transitions. We sand with HEPA vacuum-shrouded equipment that keeps fine dust out of the rest of the house, we schedule cure windows around Pacific Northwest humidity, and we acclimate wood and engineered product the full manufacturer-spec period before a single board lands. From $150 for a single subfloor soft-spot patch to $25,000 for a full herringbone install on a main level.

Flooring hub image — wide shot of a recently finished Seattle hardwood floor in soft daylight, refinished red oak boards running the full length of the dining room, brushed-nickel air return at the wall base, a folded drop cloth and a Lägler Hummel drum sander on a furniture dolly just outside the doorway.

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Wide editorial photo of a Handis flooring crew in progress — one technician operating a Lägler Hummel dust-controlled drum sander down the length of a dining-room oak floor, a second technician edge-sanding the perimeter with a HEPA vacuum hose attached, plastic-zip wall sealing the doorway to the kitchen.
Pricing

Flooring Pricing

Final pricing depends on square footage, species and product chosen, subfloor condition, finish coats, and whether stair or transition work is in scope. Each sub-category page lists detailed pricing for that family. Request a free estimate for an accurate quote.

Tell us the rooms and the scope — we will quote the prep, the install or refinish, and the cure-time calendar in one estimate.

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Why Seattle Homeowners Book Handis for Flooring
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Why Seattle Homeowners Book Handis for Flooring

Every flooring failure we are called to fix traces to one of three skipped steps — subfloor prep that was waved off, acclimation that was cut short to make the install date, or finish coats that were rushed through cure to reopen the room for a dinner party. None of those steps shows up on the invoice for the install itself; all three show up on the rip-and-replace invoice three years later. Handis runs flooring as the finish-carpentry trade it actually is, with the prep, the acclimation, and the cure-time discipline named on the schedule so the homeowner sees the full calendar before signing.

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Tell us the rooms (square footage and current flooring), the scope you have in mind (refinish, replace, new install, repair), any known issues (soft spots, water damage, squeaks, cracked tile, lifted laminate), and the species or product you are considering. We measure, run the subfloor and moisture checks, and send a clear estimate with the full calendar — prep, acclimation, install, cure, and a no-walk window — so you know when the room is usable.

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Reviews

What Our Customers Say

Recent flooring reviews from verified Seattle-area customers.

Refinished the original 1948 red oak floors throughout our Wallingford bungalow. Handis ran a HEPA-shrouded drum sander and edger and the dust really did stay out of the rest of the house — we had the rest of the home sealed off with plastic-zip and we lived in the back bedrooms the whole week. Two coats of water-based poly, full 48-hour cure between coats, exactly the calendar they put on the quote.

Ben and Halle T., Whole-Floor Refinish, 1948 Bungalow

New 5-inch white oak engineered through our main level — 1,100 square feet. Handis acclimated the wood for 5 days in the room before the first board, ran a flatness check and skim-coated two low spots before install, and the floor is flat as a pool table. No hollow spots, no creaks, no gaps four months in through the wet PNW season.

Daniel and Rosa K., Engineered Hardwood Main Level

LVP through our daylight basement in Greenwood. Glue-down per the manufacturer because of the slab. They ran calcium-chloride moisture tests in three locations before scheduling the install — one came back high, they recommended a moisture barrier coating before the install instead of just pushing through. Pulled a moisture issue I would have caught the hard way in year two.

Patricia and Allen B., Basement LVP Install

Stair refinish on a center-hall colonial in Mount Baker. Original 1925 red oak treads, painted-white risers, refinished in a Bona Traffic HD water-based for the wear and the clear color. Tech taped the entire stair run plastic-to-plastic so the upstairs stayed sealed off from the dust. Came out beautifully, no amber-shift in the natural color.

Marcus and Lin H., Stair Refinish

Tile floor in our master bath replaced after a long-running leak. Handis pulled the cracked tile, found rotted plywood and a corroded toilet flange, brought in the licensed plumber for the flange and reset the rough-in, then we re-tiled in large-format porcelain on Schluter DITRA. Honest about the rot, named the plumber on the quote, came in within $200 of the estimate.

Erica and Joel R., Bathroom Tile Replacement After Leak
FAQ

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about Handis flooring — scope, subfloor prep, acclimation and cure-time, pricing, dust control, and what survives in which application.

How much does a flooring project cost?
A single subfloor soft-spot patch or squeak repair starts at $150. Stair and transition work starts at $400 for a single T-mold or threshold install, higher for full stair-tread runs. Hardwood flooring starts at $500 for a small board repair or screen-and-recoat, runs to $25,000 for a full herringbone install on a main level. Carpet starts at $600 for a small bedroom install with new pad. Tile floors start at $1,500 for a small bathroom or laundry, more for large-format and heated installs. Luxury vinyl and laminate start at $2,000 for a single-room install, higher for whole-floor and glue-down work. Each sub-category page lists detailed pricing for that family. You get a clear estimate with the prep, install, and cure calendar named line by line before any work begins.
Do you handle subfloor and prep work, or only the visible flooring?
We handle both, and the prep is on the quote as separate line items so you see exactly what is being done before the visible floor goes down. Soft-spot and squeak repair, joist sistering for deflection, plywood and OSB subfloor patches, flatness correction to NWFA tolerance (3/16 inch in 10 feet for hardwood), self-leveling compound where the substrate is out of tolerance, and moisture barrier coating where the slab moisture reading exceeds the product spec. Skipping the prep is the single most common cause of premature flooring failure — we will not skip it and we name what is in scope on the quote.
How long does it take from quote to a usable room?
Depends on the product. A screen-and-recoat on existing hardwood is 2 days of work plus 24 to 48 hours of cure (3 to 4 days total). A full dustless sand and refinish runs 4 to 6 days of work plus the cure window (7 to 10 days total). New solid hardwood install needs 5 to 7 days of acclimation plus install plus cure — typical timeline is 10 to 14 days total. Engineered hardwood is 3 to 5 days acclimation plus install plus cure — typical 7 to 10 days total. LVP and laminate are usually 1 to 3 days of work plus 24 hours before furniture. Tile is 2 to 5 days of install plus 48 to 72 hours of cure before grout and 7 days before regular wet use. The full calendar lands on the quote so you see it up front.
How do you keep sanding dust out of the rest of the house?
Drum sanding generates fine dust at the micron scale. Handis runs HEPA vacuum-shrouded equipment (Lägler Hummel drum sander and equivalent edger) with the dust collected directly at the sanding head, plastic-zip walls floor-to-ceiling at every doorway out of the work zone, HEPA negative-air scrubbers for any zone connected to forced-air HVAC, the supply registers and return grilles in the work zone sealed off with plastic and tape, and a daily vacuum-and-trash-out. Some fine dust always escapes — but the difference between a dust-controlled job and an uncontrolled job is the difference between cleaning the closet shelves once and cleaning every horizontal surface in the house for a week.
Do I need to leave the house during a flooring project?
Most projects you can stay in the house and live in the unaffected zones — the work area is sealed off, the dust stays contained, and the work hours are weekday daytime. For whole-house refinishes that take the main living level offline for a week, some homeowners prefer to stay elsewhere for the noisy sanding days (1 to 2 days) and the immediate no-walk cure window (24 to 48 hours after the final coat). We will give you the day-by-day schedule on the quote so you can plan around it. Bathrooms and kitchens with tile installs are offline for the cure window and we will say so explicitly.
What flooring is right for which room?
Living rooms, dining rooms, hallways, bedrooms — solid hardwood, engineered hardwood, LVP, or carpet, depending on aesthetic and budget. Kitchens — engineered hardwood (with a runner at the sink), LVP, sealed-grout porcelain tile; click-lock laminate is risky because seams swell on a single dishwasher leak. Bathrooms — porcelain or ceramic tile on Schluter DITRA, sheet vinyl, or LVP rated for wet areas; never solid hardwood, never click-lock laminate. Basements (below-grade) — LVP or glue-down engineered, not solid hardwood (humidity cycles cup and crown solid). Over in-floor radiant heat — engineered or LVP at the manufacturer-rated thickness, not solid. We will tell you on the booking call what survives in your specific application.
What about pets and kids during the install?
We schedule around it. Sanding and finish-coat days the dogs and cats need to be in a sealed-off room with the doors closed (dust + curious paw on wet finish = a problem), and we will tell you which days specifically. Kids are fine in the rest of the house but the work zone is taped off and the no-walk window after final coats is hard — a single shoe scuff in fresh poly is a buff-and-recoat callback. The cure-window note goes on the bathroom door or the room threshold so everyone in the house sees it.
Can you refinish my existing hardwood instead of replacing it?
Almost always yes. A 3/4-inch solid hardwood floor can be sanded 5 to 7 times over its lifetime depending on original thickness and how aggressively prior refinishes took material off. We measure the existing wear layer at the threshold (a quick view at the gap between the floor and the door jamb) and tell you on the visit whether the floor has at least one more refinish in it. Engineered hardwood with a 4 mm or thicker wear layer can also be refinished — 2 mm or thinner is at the edge of feasibility and we will be honest if it does not have one in it.
Do you do herringbone, chevron, or other decorative patterns?
Yes — herringbone (90-degree miters) and chevron (45 or 60-degree miters with the boards meeting at a point) installs, in solid or engineered hardwood, with optional borders, accent inlays, and custom block-cut patterns. These are the most labor-intensive hardwood installs we do — every board is mitered, every seam matters, and the pattern reads only when the prep is dead flat. Pricing reflects the install time. From $10,000 for a small engineered herringbone room to $25,000 for a chevron entry and main level. Our hardwood-flooring page has the full scope.
Do you cover homes outside Seattle proper?
Yes — most of the Puget Sound region is in service area, from north Seattle and Shoreline through Bellevue, Redmond, Issaquah, Sammamish, Renton, Tukwila, Burien, and south to Federal Way. Whole-floor refinishes and decorative-pattern installs on the I-90 corridor (North Bend, Snoqualmie) are covered with a travel premium added to the project price; we will name it on the quote before you sign. Outside that radius we will tell you on the call if the math works.
Is the work guaranteed?
Yes. Handis carries general liability and workers' compensation; every technician has cleared a background screening before the first job. Our one-year project warranty covers install quality, sanding and finish coats, board fastening, grout and tile bond, carpet seam and stretch, and stair-tread fastening — if anything in our scope fails inside a year, we come back and fix it at no extra charge. The material warranty stays with the manufacturer (Bona, DuraSeal, Glitsa, Mohawk, Shaw, Mannington, Daltile, COREtec, LVP brand, etc.) and we name the manufacturer warranty on the quote so you know what is covered by whom and for how long.

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