Hardwood Floor Refinishing
Sand, stain, and dustless-finish worn floors back to a like-new look without replacing a single board.
Marietta, GA · Serving Cobb County
Hardwood Flooring in Marietta, GA: Refinishing & Installation
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Hardwood Flooring in Marietta, GA
We install, refinish and repair hardwood, engineered hardwood, LVP and laminate floors in Marietta, working from our base in Woodstock, GA 30189.
Marietta is really two markets in one city. Around Marietta Square, the homes are older — some well over a hundred years — with original hardwood that's usually been refinished more than once already. Head out toward East Cobb (Marietta, GA) and you're mostly in newer construction and established suburban neighborhoods from the 1980s through the 2000s, where the hardwood is either original to a mid-range build or was added later over what used to be carpet.
Both parts of Marietta keep us busy, and they call for different judgment calls. A Marietta Square Victorian needs someone who knows how much wood is left before another sanding pass turns a repair into a replacement. An East Cobb colonial from the 1990s usually just needs an honest assessment of whether a screen and recoat will do the job or whether it's time for a full refinish.
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Call 470-826-3581 or request a free estimate online. We serve Marietta Square, East Cobb, and all of Cobb County, and we’re open 24/7.
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Our Services in Marietta, GA
- Hardwood floor refinishing and sanding
- Solid and engineered hardwood installation
- Hardwood repairs, board replacement, and lacing for older floors
- Screen and recoat service
- Laminate and LVP installation
- Wide plank flooring
- Stair and tread refinishing
Hardwood Floor Repair
Fix squeaks, gouges, water stains, and pet damage — repaired to match the surrounding floor.
Hardwood Floor Cleaning
Screen-and-recoat and deep cleaning that extends the life of your floors between full refinishes.
Rubio Monocoat & Hard Wax Oil Finishes
Premium natural-look finishes — Rubio Monocoat, Bona Craft Oil, and Pallmann Magic Oil — for a low-sheen, low-VOC result.
Hardwood Floor Installation in Marietta
New hardwood in Marietta often replaces carpet. We pull up the carpet, pad, tack strips and staples and check the subfloor before any wood goes down, because leftover staples and padding cause squeaks and soft spots later. Our hardwood floor installation page covers the process.
Matching new white oak to the old
When new boards go in next to an existing floor, the two often look different at first. Older wood darkens from years of sunlight and air, while new wood starts lighter. One Marietta floor combined 30-year-old white oak with brand-new white oak. To tone down the red that oak often shows, we applied Bona Red Out, sealed the floor with Bona NaturalSeal, which adds a slight white pigment, and finished with two coats of Bona HD Traffic for a durable matte look. The old and new planks ended up reading as one floor. You can see it under Marietta Projects on Video.
Stairs
If stairs are part of the job, the treads and risers take more hand-work than open floor, and matching the stain and sheen takes care, so plan for the stairs to add time. We install in East Cobb the same way; see Hardwood Floors in East Cobb further down this page.
Recent Work in Marietta, GA
Marietta Hardwood Floor Projects
Real Marietta jobs, each from a video we filmed on site. Details come from our own write-up of each job.
Early American refinish · Marietta
- Service
- Sanding and refinishing
- Stain
- Early American
- Finish
- Traditional oil-based polyurethane
- Problem solved
- Floors that were likely 15 to 20 years old needed a refresh to suit a home built in 1940.
A home in historic Marietta, built in 1940, where we sanded and refinished floors that were likely 15 to 20 years old. The customer picked a classic Early American stain with traditional oil-based polyurethane for a rich, warm tone.
White oak refinish with Bona Red Out · Marietta
- Service
- Refinishing
- Species & grade
- White oak, No. 1 grade; 30-year-old floors and brand-new boards together
- Finish
- Bona Red Out first, then Bona Natural Seal and two coats of Bona HD Traffic, matte look
- Problem solved
- Old and new oak age differently from oxidation and UV light, so they can look mismatched. Bona Red Out neutralizes the natural red tones in oak, and the sealer and finish help the old and new boards read as one floor.
A Marietta job with 30-year-old and brand-new No. 1 grade white oak. We used Bona Red Out to tone down the red, Bona Natural Seal for a subtle white pigment, and two coats of Bona HD Traffic for a matte look.
Why Marietta Homeowners Choose Us
The crew brings 25 years of experience to all of Cobb County, from Marietta Square out to East Cobb and everywhere in between. We have 10,000 jobs completed in Georgia, built the old-fashioned way: itemized estimates, a clean job site, and floors that look right when we're done. That's true whether the house is a hundred years old or fifteen.
Nearby: hardwood flooring in Kennesaw, hardwood flooring in Smyrna, hardwood flooring in Roswell and hardwood flooring in Acworth.
A Marietta Square Project Note
If your home is near Historic Marietta Square and a previous owner used the wrong products or let the finish wear through completely, original hardwood can often still be refinished with the right sanding equipment and a careful hand.
Hardwood Floors in East Cobb
East Cobb (Marietta, GA) is not a separate city. It is an unincorporated part of Cobb County, and most homes there have Marietta mailing addresses, so we treat it as part of our Marietta work.
Carpet to hardwood
In East Cobb, dated carpet or worn laminate in a kitchen, hallway or the full main level can be replaced with solid or engineered hardwood. Old padding, tack strips and staples left behind make an uneven subfloor and invite squeaks and soft spots, so we pull all of it up and check the subfloor before any new wood goes down. See hardwood floor installation. We do the same carpet-to-hardwood work in neighboring Kennesaw too, and the Kennesaw hardwood floor installation page shows how a typical job goes.
Refinish or recoat
In a mid-1990s home with oak already down, the question is whether the floor needs a full refinish or only a screen and recoat. That depends on the wear layer and how the floor has been maintained, so we check it in person and tell you which one applies before we quote either. See hardwood floor refinishing.
Stairs in two-story colonials
If you are renovating a colonial and want the stairs to match the hardwood on both floors, that is more involved than the flat rooms, but it is a job we do regularly. Treads and risers take more hand-work, and matching the stain and sheen takes care, so plan for the stairs to add time beyond the open floor.
Builder-grade floors
A floor described as original to a mid-range build is usually solid oak strip, and it refinishes as well as anything installed in a custom home. The grade mostly affects things like plank width, not whether the floor is worth bringing back.
What Our Customers Say
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“The Hardwood Guys are amazing! They refinished and installed new hardwood floors in my house in December, and we could not be happier with the result! They are very professional and easy to work with!”
10,000 jobs completed in Georgia
Marietta Projects on Video
Real jobs, real homeowners, real floors — filmed on site. Nothing plays until you press it, so the page stays fast.
Bona Red Out on New and Older Oak Floors in Marietta, GA
Early American Stain in an 84-Year-Old Home, Marietta, GA
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Financing available — up to $100,000, with interest-free options from $30/mo. Subject to approval.
More Ways We Help in Marietta
Water damage repair in Marietta
Cupped or buckled floors after a leak? We repair, replace and refinish matching boards, and we meet with you, and with your adjuster on site if needed. See water-damaged floor repair.
Frequently Asked Questions
Both, regularly. They're different housing stocks, but they share Marietta addresses and the same service area for us.
It depends on the wear layer and how the floor has been maintained. We'll check it in person and tell you honestly which one actually applies before quoting either.
It depends on the board thickness and how deep past refinishes went, not a fixed number of times. Solid hardwood generally has more sanding life than people expect if earlier refinishes were done conservatively, but a floor that's already close to the tongue and groove has very little room left. We measure what's actually there before telling a Marietta Square homeowner how many refinishes their floor has left.
It can, if it's not fully cleared out first. Leftover staples, tack strip nails, and padding residue create an uneven subfloor, and installing hardwood over that is asking for squeaks, soft spots, or boards that don't sit flat. We pull all of it up and check the subfloor underneath before installation starts, so the new floor goes down on a clean, even surface instead of on top of old carpet debris.
It's more involved than the flat rooms, but it's a job we do regularly. Treads and risers take more hand-work than open floor space, and matching the stain and sheen so the stairs read as one continuous floor with the rooms above and below takes some care. It's absolutely doable in an East Cobb colonial — just plan for the stairs to add time to the schedule beyond the open floor area.
Not at all. Mid-range or builder-grade just describes the grade of material a builder chose to install originally, not the wood species or its ability to be refinished later. Most of it is solid oak strip flooring, which refinishes just as well as anything installed in a custom home. The grade mostly affects things like plank width or finish quality out of the box, not whether the floor underneath is worth bringing back.