Hardwood Floor Refinishing.

Refined.

Floor refinishing has always been a labor of love for most wood flooring professionals.
And since 1995, I have been sanding and refinishing hardwood floors.
We would use the traditional floor sanding machines, The kind with the big bag attached, and just go like hell. The bags didn't exactly do a great job collecting the fine dust and many floor men would simply ignore it and say "it's part of floor sanding". This worked for years. It seemed as though clients were just going to have to accept that there would be dust in their home from the machines, which hadn't changed much since the 1950's or even earlier.
Then, we would apply stain if desired, along with several layers of an OIL BASED POLYURETHANE, which is high in VOCs (or Volatile Organic Compounds) and causes lots of fun health related difficulties from its high amounts of VOC's that are constatnly emitted while it takes the many hours to dry and several days to weeks it requires to fully cure. All the while, you, the client are breathing this stuff in for those time frames until it fully cures.
We did this day after day, year after year, after year.

In the decade between 1995 and 2005, I attended many wood working courses and could not help but notice the dust collection in each and every wood shop I attended the classes in.
I started to think of how I could incorporate such a large vacuum system into our floor refinishing process. I had many attempts at it ranging from very large, truck mounted vacuum systems that required hundreds of feet of hose and keeping windows of the home open, tracked in dirt, mud and other unwanted debris while we did our sanding. after about 15-20 different setups, it just didn't seem like it was efficiently possible to have a mobile dust collection unit for floor refinishing.

Fast forward another decade and I've tested and refined dustless floor refinishing and feel comfortable offering it to our clients as just that. Dust Less Floor Refinishing.
We use high powered, 3 stage Hepa vacuums that are made speciffically for floor sanding, connected to all our sanding machines. We have worked with machine manufacturers to help design the machines for primo dust collection and use only machines with a high clean air rating.
The machines in the photos above, you can clearly see how close they are to the ground and they have "skirting" attachments that seal the sander to the floor. This, combined with excellent vacuum power, create the negative pressure inside the machine and allow nearly no dust to escape.