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by adorez
When we decided to buy a house a few years back, I had my heart set on a Victorian..with beautiful hardwood floors. I
found my Victorian, but unfortunately the floors were a combination of painted linoleum tiles ( front hallway and guest
bedroom ), cheap Home Depot berber carpet ( master bedroom and dining room ), and . cherry laminate pergo ( kitchen ).
The living room had beautiful hardwood flooring installed, but that was it. Fast forward to now. We decided to sell our
house, so to spruce it up a bit we were going to have the entire house ( except the LR and kitchen ) recarpeted. Under the
old carpet and pads, we discovered more ugly painted linoleum. One of the tiles had started to lift, so I pulled it up and
WHOAH!! Underneath I saw wood. I started trying to pry the tiles up, but was only able to get the ones closest to the wall
(someone had glued AND nailed those tiles down a LONG time ago..and they were not coming up without a fight). My mom
went ahead and had Home Depot re carpet the entire house, which cost us about $2400. I was undeterred,
though...knowing the value that the wood floors would add to the house. Our real estate agent agreed, and together we
pulled up a section of the new carpet in the closet of the Master bedroom. She told me that the wood floors were old
growth Douglas fir, and that they would be gorgeous restored. We had several contractors come to give us an
estimate...the first one took one look at the tiles and told us there was no way he could demo and restore the floors, and
that it would be cheaper to just install new hardwood floors throughout. He called me later with an $8600 dollar estimate (
excluding the LR, kitchen and bathrooms ). Still undeterred, I called and left message after message with various flooring
outfits. Ramirez hardwood floors actually answered the first time that I called, and the man said he could come by and take
a look that day.
He showed up on time, looked at the floors and quoted me $1800 dollars on the spot to demo and remove all of the old tiles,
restore and refinish the floors....2300 including the kitchen. I was abit suspicious, so I asked for some references, which he
promptly provided for me. His references checked out, claiming that they too had thought the price too good to be true, but
were very happy with the work done. So we went for it.We riipped out all of the new carpets, and moved in to the in law for
a few days. The guys from Ramirez showed up at 8am on the dot, and worked all day until around 6pm. They were finished
in just under four whole days, and the results are absolutely BREATHTAKING. Deep, rich, golden red fir floors...they filled in
the gaps and totally restored the floors..they even refinished the hardwoods in the Living Room to match the rest of the
house for nothing. The entire project cost around $2400...ironically the same price we had paid to have the Home Depot
carpets installed..and what a difference. If only we had not wasted that cash initially, I would have gladly used a chunk of it
to tip these guys. Instead, I am writing this review, in hopes that it brings them business that they totally deserve. Amazing.