Robar Hardwood Flooring

We recently completed a kitchen renovation which included removing a wall between the kitchen and dining room in our circa 1924 centre hall Toronto house. We decided that we wanted to extend the strip flooring into the kitchen and were hoping not to have to sand the flooring in the dining area. I have to say that the outcome was excellent. The transitions and the match to the original floor makes it look like it was always there. I was unimpressed with many of the trades people who participated in this project but was truly impressed with Martin and his colleagues. Thank you.

I hired Martin to remove old carpeting from two bedrooms, install unfinished hardwood (strip flooring) because the adjacent hallway had old strip flooring and I wanted to match the floors. The scope of his job included finishing (sanding, filling, staining and finishing) the newly installed hardwood in the two bedrooms plus the existing hardwood in the hallway in order to make them match.

The end result is beautiful. You can't tell which is the old and the newly installed hardwood. They're seamless.

We're really happy with the job.

The only negative was that I had the walls and trim of the bedrooms painted white a week before Martin started his job. I should have had the painting done after the floors because when Martin was done there were scuffs and dusty hand prints on the walls which I was able to wash off with Mr. Clean magic eraser and a damp cloth for most areas but also had to resort to using spackling and paint for other areas where small bits of drywall were scraped from the wall and in one spot from the ceiling which I assume was damaged when they removed/replaced the doors. Also, the job was dusty despite them using dust-reducing sanders which vacuums the dust as it sands. I think the dust was unavoidable though due to the nature of the job involving sanding of entire floor surface. Next time I would do a better job of blocking off parts of the house with sheets of plastic.

My interior design firm has been using Robar’s services for several years on various projects. Many of them involved extremely detailed, high end work for very demanding clients. The team has always been very professional, on time and very experienced in their craft. I recommend Robar not only to my clients but also to family and friends.

The work was ok but not great. Corners and edges were not sanded well and were left higher than the surrounding floor. There are brush/roller marks in the final varnish coat and where repairs were needed they were hastily and poorly done. And the workers left a lot of trash behind when they were finished. It was a barely adequate job. Very hard to recommend this company.

Martin and his team refinished all of the floors in our old home and they look terrific. We have three different types of wood including pine subfloors and they all turned out really well. Rates were very reasonable. Very happy to recommend this company.