Harmon Hardwood Flooring

We have the knowledge and skill to transform your home by creating any hardwood floor you can imagine! Incredible quality and customer satisfaction are our top priorities. You shouldn't just like your floors, you should LOVE them. We can help guide you every step of the way. When we decided to rip up the existing floors in our new home, we approached the project with the mind set that we would Do it right. So we wouldn't have to do it over. It is an undertaking that can be overwhelming and at times, inconvenient.

Through quality education and invaluable experience Bob Harmon, owner of Harmon Hardwood Flooring, guarantees quality hardwood floor installation, refinishing, repair, and custom design. Harmon Hardwood Flooring provides an unsurpassed pride in craftsmanship throughout the Minneapolis, St. Paul, and Western Wisconsin area. Nothing compares to the look and feel of a beautiful hardwood floor. They can add a welcoming amount of warmth and character to a single room or entire house. Hardwood floors can be incredible true works of art with complex inlays and borders strategically placed throughout your home or they can be full of simplistic beauty which blends seamlessly into your home.

Every stair case is unique to the style of your home. Each staircase has the ability to become a significant focal point of your home or to blend in quietly to the design of your home. Staircases require exquisite attention to detail to ensure a high quality look and secure design, evident in ways such as tight joints. When building individual stairs every step is different, therefore every step needs to be adjusted by fractions of a degree for create a perfect fit. Often, stairs are torn down to the stringers which support them and are completely rebuilt to achieve the highest quality results, such as no ‘squeaking' when the stairs are used.

Often, homeowners feel overwhelmed with the variety of hardwood flooring choices available today. As a homeowner making hardwood flooring choices your first consideration should be "what is your lifestyle?" The hardwood floor you choose should fit the lifestyle you have chosen, we can help you make the right hardwood floor choices. Every species of wood has different characteristics including how hard the wood is, grain structure, color and stability. After choosing the location of the hardwood flooring within your home, you'll then need to determine your desired appearance for the hardwood floor.

Every repair situation is unique in its own way, thus requiring individual in-home evaluations to best address the complexity or simplicity of the repair. Consequently, most hardwood flooring repair work requires skilled craftsmanship with a trained eye to ensure quality work is completed. Repairs usually require removing existing flooring, often to the to sub-floor. With the complexity of repairs varying, some repairs require your existing floors to be refinished to ensure seamless blending. This refinishing process is required for almost all room additions where lacing work, the blending of old wood joints with new wood joints, is completed.

When installing hardwood floors, experience makes all the difference. Often, a poorly installed floor will be squeaky, have gaps and will have errors visual to even an untrained eye. Where as a floor which was installed properly will have an even appearance, has a strong structure and is quiet. The installation of a hardwood floor sets the course for all other work to be completed, so if done improperly the repercussions can be huge. If you want your hardwood floors installed the right way, trust Harmon Hardwood Flooring.

Refinishing the hardwood floors in your home entails the same processes regardless of if your floor is newly installed raw wood or if you have a preexisting finished floor. Again, all household items need to be removed from the wood floor surface prior to starting. The floor is sanded flat if its new, if the floor is existing the finish is removed down to the bare wood. Consecutive sanding of the entire floor refines the floor by taking out scratches from previous grits. The end result is a smooth and even raw floor ready to be newly stained or finished.