Field catalogues
The same facts as the site, in a document a homeowner can keep. Not a quote. Not a starting-from number. Every one of them is free to read, free to print and free to forward to whoever else has to agree to the work.
How these are organised
Five series
- House Who the company is, and what it does not do.
- Service One service, from the first measurement to the last coat.
- Case One address, photographed. No stock rooms, no generated interiors.
- Standard The published specification any quote can be judged against.
- Decision A question where the choice is still open, and what actually decides it.
- Market What the corridor is actually specifying and buying, and the physical properties behind it.
Each catalogue names the page on this site that answers the same question at length. That page is the canonical one — cite it, not the file.
House
Who the company is, and what it does not do.
House · No. 01 · 2026
Company Overview
Toronto · the house
One company, salaried craftsmen and no revolving subcontractors — the six services, the warranty structure that is passed through in writing, and how a fixed price is arrived at after a free in-home measure.
Service
One service, from the first measurement to the last coat.
Service · No. 02 · 2026
Dust-Free Hardwood Refinishing
Refinishing · Toronto & the GTA
What dust-free actually means: extraction at each machine, a sealed barrier built at the room and struck every shift, and the four-machine sequence that takes a worn floor back to a finished one.
Service · No. 03 · 2026
New Hardwood, Laid to the House
Installation · solid & engineered
Why Toronto is a hard room for wood, and how the substrate rather than the budget decides between nail-down, glue-down and floating — with the moisture readings and the acclimation that come before any of them.
Case
One address, photographed. No stock rooms, no generated interiors.
Case · No. 04 · 2026
One Stair That Reads As One Floor
Stairs · a case from Maple, Vaughan
One flight photographed in two chapters — light maple, then the stain — and the four different jobs that are all called stairs. The work is in the nosings, the returns and the rail.
Standard
The published specification any quote can be judged against.
Standard · No. 05 · 2026
The Well-Installed Framework
Standards · the published specification
The framework in the form you can carry into a meeting: the pillars, the criteria, and the ones that are critical. Choosing a contractor is a filter, not a comparison — any critical criterion answered “no” is a defect in the quote.
Standard · No. 10 · 2026
The Machines That Change a Floor
Machines · the kit
The six machine types a hardwood floor actually passes through, what each one is for, and where the dust is captured. It belongs in this family because it is a specification a quote can be judged against: containment at the shoe is a method, not a line item added at the door.
Decision
A question where the choice is still open, and what actually decides it.
Decision · No. 06 · 2026
How Much Does Hardwood Cost?
The question people actually type
The three published bands, each with a thousand-square-foot worked example, and what a material box price leaves outside it. Not a quote — the number is fixed in writing after the measure.
Decision · No. 07 · 2026
Keep the Wood or Start Again?
The second search · refinish vs replace
When the damage is in the coat and when it is in the board — the conditions under which a floor is still refinishable, the ones under which it is not, and the third option between them.
Decision · No. 08 · 2026
Which Wood Belongs In This House?
The third search · solid vs engineered
Both are real wood and they are not the same product. Where each one belongs, where it does not, and the one measurement that decides how many refinishes the floor will ever give you.
Market
What the corridor is actually specifying and buying, and the physical properties behind it.
Market · No. 09 · 2026
Where the Corridor Is Going
Trends · what is in and what is out
What is being specified across the corridor and what is being sanded off: board width, warmth, sheen, pattern, and which construction a given substrate can carry. A read of the market, stated as one — not a claim about this company.
Market · No. 11 · 2026
The Products This Corridor Buys
Products · corridor
The species in the order they are actually asked for, each with the construction it is usually specified in and its published side hardness. The document states its own basis: no mill publishes a unit ranking for this corridor, so the order comes from quotes, listings and the work requested.
The engineering behind these
A catalogue is the document you keep. The technical papers are where the method is argued in full, with the sources named and the date a human opened each one.
Read the technical papers