Hardwood Flooring
The original 1929 fir floors that were finally pulled out from under the carpet and are dull but sound. The 1990s red oak in the dining room that has gone amber and is scratched where the chairs slide. The kitchen oak that water-stained at the dishwasher and now has a black ring around it. The new-build 2018 engineered floor that the previous owner laid over a slab without a moisture barrier and is cupping at the south wall. Hardwood is the single material in a home that pays back the most for being treated as a finish-carpentry trade rather than as a flooring-supplier transaction. Handis covers five hardwood service families — refinishing, repair, solid install, engineered install, and decorative pattern (herringbone and chevron) — with HEPA dust control on every sanding day, full manufacturer-spec acclimation before a board lands, and Bona, DuraSeal, Glitsa, or Loba finish lines cured the manufacturer-spec window before the floor goes back into traffic. From $500 for a small repair or screen-and-recoat to $25,000 for a full herringbone install on a main level.
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Hardwood Flooring Pricing
Final pricing depends on square footage, species, board width, subfloor condition, finish coats, and whether the install is solid, engineered, or decorative pattern. Each sub-category page lists detailed pricing for that family. Request a free estimate for an accurate quote.
Tell us the room, the existing floor (or the species you have in mind for a new install), and the look you want — we will quote the prep, the install or refinish, and the cure-time calendar in one estimate.
Why Seattle Homeowners Book Handis for Hardwood Flooring
Hardwood is the one flooring material where the install crew matters more than the species or the brand. A perfectly milled rift-and-quartered 5-inch white oak laid by a crew that skipped acclimation and pushed through cure to make a deadline performs worse in year two than a mid-grade red oak laid carefully and given the full manufacturer-spec windows. Handis runs hardwood as the finish-carpentry trade it actually is — flatness check before, acclimation in the install zone, blind-nail or cleat fastening at the correct spacing, sand at the right grit sequence, and finish coats cured the full window before the room comes back into use. The boring discipline is what the floor pays back for the next 25 years.
Estimate
Tell us the room (square footage and species, if you know it), the scope you have in mind (refinish, stain change, repair, new install, decorative pattern), any known issues (water damage, soft spots, cupping, squeaks), and the look you are after (natural, traditional dark stain, gray, white wash). We send a clear estimate with the prep, acclimation, install, cure, and a no-walk window — so you know the full calendar before signing.
Customer Reviews
Recent hardwood flooring reviews from real Handis customers.
Full refinish of the original 1948 red oak in our Wallingford bungalow — about 900 square feet across living, dining, and the long hallway. Handis sanded with a HEPA-shrouded Lägler Hummel and an equivalent edger, applied two coats of Bona Traffic HD, and the floor looks brand new without any of the amber-shift of the old oil-modified poly. The dust really did stay contained in the work zone.
New 5-inch rift-and-quartered white oak engineered through our Madrona main level — 1,100 square feet. They acclimated the wood 5 days in the room before install, ran a 10-foot straightedge over the entire subfloor and skim-coated two low spots, then cleat-nailed every board. The floor is flat as a pool table, no creaks, no gaps four months in through the wet PNW season.
Stain change in our Mount Baker dining room — went from a 1990s honey-oak finish to a Jacobean dark stain with three coats of poly. They did stain sample boards in two finish lines on a closet floor first so we could see the actual color on our wood before committing. Final color is exactly what we picked off the sample.
Water-damage spot repair on a kitchen oak floor — the dishwasher had leaked over six months and ringed about 6 square feet of boards. Handis pulled the damaged boards, found the subfloor was sound underneath, lace-in repaired with matched red oak, then sanded and finished the patch to blend with the existing floor. You honestly cannot see where the repair is.
Herringbone install in our Capitol Hill condo entry and dining — about 350 square feet of 5-inch white oak engineered herringbone with a 3-board border. Every miter was tight, the pattern reads perfectly off-axis, and the install was finished in 6 working days. Pricing was at the upper end but the work justifies it.
Frequently Asked Questions
Common questions about Handis hardwood flooring — refinish vs replace, species selection, dust control, acclimation, cure-time, decorative patterns, and pricing.