Our Services
Installation
Unfinished
Choose from a wide variety of species like white oak, red oak, pine, Brazilian cherry, chestnut, or bamboo. For an even more unique and elegant look, consider ordering rift & quartered flooring for more complex grain patterns—available in almost all species! After our installations, we use dustless sanders to smooth, seal, and finish your new floors.
Prefinished & Engineered
Your choice of wood species, stain, width, and finish options with prefinished and engineered flooring is virtually unlimited. For narrow flooring (2.25”-5”), we recommend a nail down method over a vapor barrier using staple fasteners. For wider stock, your best bet is to use a roll-on moisture barrier, followed by a fully gluing and stapling each board. Pictured here is 8” Valerio engineered planking byVilla Borghese. There are countless styles and textures at your fingertips, and the experts at Ray’s Wood Floors will take it from start to finish.
(Bonus: once it’s installed, you’re good to go—no sanding!)
Patching & Repair
Blending new and old hardwood flooring requires careful attention to detail. Whether you’re tearing down a wall or repairing water damage, our goal is to weave a seamless transitions that transforms eye sores into eye candy. We also specialize in custom thresholds and nosings manufactured and installed right on site.
Sanding & Refinishing
Sanding
Our German engineered drum sanders are incredibly efficient at handling any condition a new or old floor can present, with excellent dust containment systems for easy disposal. Our expertise in floor sanding all comes down to operating these heavy-duty machines with a feather-touch.
Our edgers connect to vacuums outfitted with HEPA filters and typically take care of the room’s perimeter. Here however it is being used to flatten a section of uneven subfloor prior to install. Ray’s Wood Floors has decades of experience with the best tools and practices around.
Staining
There’s no better way to elegantly transform your hardwood floors than to stain them, and it’s an art that we take seriously. We can color match for seamless blending, or help develop a custom shade unique to you. Our sanding method creates a smooth and even canvas, and our tried and true rag application ensures a handcrafted color distributed evenly throughout each square foot of hardwood. Upgrade your floors and make them the new focal point of your home.
Minwax Stain Color Guide
Zar Stain Color Guide
Refinishing
This historic home in Nahant, MA was at one point a church converted into a YMCA in the mid 20th century. Ray’s Wood Floors was honored to complete the renovation project in 2024 by restoring and refinishing 2,000 square feet of maple hardwood floors throughout the residence.
Arguably the most important aspect of preserving any hardwood floor, we offer both oil and water-based finishes, each with their merits.
Oil-based polyurethane (pictured on Brazilian cherry) is the most traditional and widely used, perfectly suited for high-traffic areas.
Water-based finishes (pictured on character grade white oak) have become popular as a more environmental choice, and they are known for having a quicker drying time and nearly 0% VOC’S.
We apply three coats of finish, generally over the course of three days, for excellent protection and a proper amount of time to dry between coats.
