# Hardwood floor installation & refinishing in Hamilton

Hamilton has the oldest concentrated housing stock on this corridor. The lower-city grid — Durand, Kirkendall, Strathcona, Crown Point, Stipley — is largely pre-1930 brick, while the escarpment above it is post-war bungalow and side-split. The two halves of the city ask for almost opposite work.

## Areas covered

Durand, Kirkendall, Strathcona, Crown Point, Westdale, Hamilton Mountain.

## Housing stock and what it means for the floor

Pre-war lower-city houses commonly carry narrow-strip hardwood over plank subfloor, often with a softwood underlayer, board loss around removed walls and old radiator penetrations that have to be pieced in and feathered before any uniform finish is possible. The mountain stock is plywood over joists with builder-era strip oak, where the decision is usually how much wear layer is left rather than what to install.

## The practical constraint here

A hundred-year-old house rarely has a flat floor, and levelling decisions get made before species does. Where a plank subfloor has moved with the joists, the choice is between accepting the plane the house has settled into and rebuilding it — and the two produce very different quotes for what looks like the same job.

## Services delivered here

- **Hardwood Flooring Installation** ($11.00–$18.00 per sq ft) — https://ecowoods.ca/services/hardwood-installation
- **Hardwood Floor Refinishing** ($4.75–$7.50 per sq ft) — https://ecowoods.ca/services/floor-refinishing
- **Dust-Free Floor Sanding** — https://ecowoods.ca/services/dust-free-sanding
- **Hardwood Floor Restoration** ($4.75–$7.50 per sq ft) — https://ecowoods.ca/services/floor-restoration
- **Stair Refinishing** ($4.75–$7.50 per sq ft) — https://ecowoods.ca/services/stair-refinishing
- **Custom Inlays & Borders** — https://ecowoods.ca/services/custom-inlays


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