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Having a home's hardwood floors refinished is a great way to give the place a fresher, newer look overall. Here are a few important questions to ask your service provider beforehand:
How Should the Home Be Prepared?
It is a good idea to ask how the home your home should be prepared before your service provider shows up to refinish your hardwood floors. You may feel that you have everything under control, but if a preparation step is missed, it could cause a delay and result in more work for your service provider, which means a higher cost for services to be done.
Ask your service provider for a list of preparation steps you can take before they show up to do the refinishing work. This should help ensure that your service provider can get right to work without wasting time on unnecessary tasks that have already been taken care of.
When Can the Work Be Done?
If you prefer that the refinishing work gets done when nobody is home, it is important to be clear about your expectations when communicating with your service provider. Maybe you are home all day during the week with your young children and you'd like the work to be done during the weekend when you can get away from the house.
Perhaps you need the work to be done between specific hours no matter what day of the week it is. Whatever the situation, make sure that your service provider understands your expectations and agrees to meet those expectations before making any financial commitments.
Is a Maintenance Plan Available?
Once your hardwood floors have been refinished, you will likely want to do all that you can to keep the flooring in good shape so that they don't have to be refinished again anytime soon. An excellent way to make sure that your floors stay in good shape is to invest in a maintenance plan for them. A maintenance plan is typically good for a specific time length, such as a year.
During that time, you will receive maintenance services at regular intervals without having to pay a separate fee for each service. Everything would be included in the cost of the maintenance plan. So, find out whether your service provider offers maintenance plans before they refinish your floors. This way you will have time to find a provider who does and establish a maintenance plan by the time the refinishing work is done.
For more information, contact a local service that can refinish wood floors in your home.
Share29 October 2021
