- Dustless sanding · fixed price
Hardwood Floor Refinishing in Northern Virginia, Maryland and DC
FIXO sands, stains and refinishes solid and engineered hardwood across Northern Virginia, Maryland and Washington DC at one fixed price. Dustless sanding, a stain you choose from samples on your own floor, and three coats of water-based finish. Most homes are walkable in three to four days.
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The number you sign is the number you pay
Express measurement within 48 hours
- The three things that matter
Refinishing: Wear Layer, Sanding Grit and Finish
The color is the fun part. These three decide whether the floor can be refinished at all, and how long the result lasts.
Wear Layer Left to Sand
Solid hardwood can be sanded five or six times. Engineered depends on the veneer: 3 mm and up can take a full sand; 2 mm gets a screen and recoat only.
- We measure the remaining wear layer at the measurement and tell you which your floor can take.
Sanding Sequence
Three passes with the big machine, from coarse to fine, then an edger and a buffer so the field and the edges match. Skipping a grit is where swirl marks come from.
- Dustless containment on every machine, so your home is not coated in oak dust.
Finish: Water-Based Polyurethane
Three coats of a commercial water-based finish: clear, low odor, dry to walk on in hours and harder than the oil-based finish most floors were built with.
- Matte, satin or semi-gloss, named on your quote. Oil-based is available when you want the amber tone.
- How it works
Hardwood Floor Refinishing in Three Steps
One visit to check the wear layer, one fixed number, and a finished floor in three to four days.
Tell us about the floor
Call, text or book online with the rooms and what is wrong: scratches, grey patches, an old finish. We book a measurement within 48 hours.
- Same day
Express measurement, fixed price
An installer measures the rooms, checks the remaining wear layer, tests stain colors on your own floor and hands you one written price.
- Within 48 hrs
Sanded, stained, sealed
Furniture out, dustless sanding, stain applied and dried, three coats of finish with light abrasion between, furniture back in on day four.
- 3-4 days
- Straight talk
Refinish or Replace?
If the boards are sound and there is wear layer left, refinishing costs a fraction of replacement and keeps the floor that was milled for your house. If boards are cupped, split or sanded thin, replacement is money better spent. We tell you plainly which you have.
- Dustless system
What Refinishing Actually Involves
Refinishing takes the floor back to bare wood and builds a new finish from scratch. The old finish and the top of the wood come off in three sanding passes, gaps and nail holes are filled, stain goes on if you want a color change, and three coats of finish go down with a light abrasion between each coat so they bond.
- Screen and recoat for floors that are dull but not damaged: one day, no sanding to bare wood
- Full sand, stain and three coats for scratched, grey or color-changed floors
- Board replacement for split or water-damaged boards, woven in before sanding so they disappear
- Stair treads refinished in the same visit so the color matches
Your price at measurementFixed · all-in
Where we talk you out of it: engineered floors with a veneer under 2 mm and floors that have already been sanded several times. There we point you at new engineered hardwood instead.
- What it costs
How Much Does Hardwood Floor Refinishing Cost?
Hardwood floor refinishing cost comes down to square footage, whether you want a stain color or a natural finish, how many stairs there are and whether any boards need replacing. Your fixed price itemizes each one, and includes everything below.
- Dustless sanding with full containment on every machine
- Gap and nail-hole filling, edges and corners hand-scraped
- Stain samples tested on your own floor before you choose
- Three coats of commercial water-based finish, abraded between coats
- Furniture moved out and back, baseboards protected
- Workmanship warranty written on your quote
- Floor by floor
Which Floors Can Be Refinished
Most solid and thick-veneer engineered floors can. Here is where the line falls.
- Where we won't recommend it
Thin veneers and floors sanded to the tongue
Floors with nothing left to take off.
- Engineered veneer under 2 mm: a screen and recoat at most
- Boards showing nail heads or the tongue at the edges
- Floors with active moisture problems, which need fixing first
- Where it works best
Solid oak, maple and thick engineered
The most common refinishing jobs we do across Northern Virginia, Maryland and DC.
- Original oak in colonials and row houses, scratched and greyed by decades of wear
- Floors with an orange oil-based finish you want to change to a lighter, modern tone
- Engineered floors with a 3 mm or thicker veneer
- Stairs and landings refinished to match the main floor
to measurement
fixed price
days to finish
- Clients love us
What homeowners in Northern Virginia, Maryland & D.C. say
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“Fast, professional, and very transparent pricing. They replaced our old living room carpet with LVP and it looks stunning.”
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“If you need a flooring contractor in Fairfax, these are your guys. They installed lvp in our entire basement. No mess left behind, and the price was very fair.”
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“Fantastic experience! We wanted to replace the old carpet in our home with LVP. The team was punctual, and the floors look incredible. Highly recommend their installation services.”
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- FAQ
Hardwood Floor Refinishing: Questions We Get Every Week
Straight answers. If yours isn’t here, call (757) 589-6859 — an installer picks up.
A typical main level is three to four days: one to sand and fill, one to stain, two for the finish coats. A screen and recoat is one day.
Our sanders run with vacuum containment that captures almost all of the dust. There is still a fine film on surfaces, but not the cloud and the week of cleaning an old-style job leaves.
Yes. We test several stain colors on your actual floor at the measurement, because the same stain reads differently on oak, maple and pine.
Not usually. You need to stay off the floor while finish dries, so most families plan around it room by room or spend a night or two away on the finish days.
If the veneer is 3 mm or thicker, yes, once. Under that, a screen and recoat is the safe option. We measure it at the visit.
Yes. The number you sign is the number you pay, including stairs and any board replacement we listed.
- Ready when you are
Get Your Fixed Price for Hardwood Floor Refinishing
Book a free express measurement and an installer hands you one written number within 48 hours. Open daily, 8am to 8pm.
- Prefer to talk first?
Let's talk about your hardwood floors.
Leave four details and an installer calls you back within business hours, usually inside the hour. No sales script, no pressure, no showroom visit.
- Call or text(757) 589-6859
- Emailinfo@fixodmv.com · replies within a few hours
- HoursMon–Sat 8am–8pm
- ServingNorthern Virginia, Maryland & Washington, D.C.
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