For over twenty three years, Owner Cuddy Wolf (3rd generation) and son, Brandon Wolf (4th generation)have built a solid reputation as one of Harford County's most reliable and professional floor sanding and refinishing companies. They are committed to providing quality service at prices you can afford. Their belief that a reputation as an honest and reliable business is the recipe for success.

     The father and son team come from a few generations of floor sanders. Cuddy's dad was a floor sander for the John K Eareckson floor company in Baltimore, Md for 44 years. His grandfather was also a flooring contractor for Picasso Floor Company in the early 1900's. Back around the turn of the century floors were primarily scraped with scrapers to ready them for finishing. Pictures to the right show the men scraping floors instead of the floor sanding equipment we use today.Installation of flooring was manual using a hammer and cut nails to fasten floor boards to floor joists. No sub floor plywood was used in this era.

For more information, send us a request on our Contact Us page, or call us at the office at 410-515-7676. Let us come out and show you what we can do for you. No obligation, no pressure, just a great price!

A Brief History of Wood Flooring

Wood flooring made its appearance in the Middle Ages, with some of those 800-year old floors still in use today. The upper levels were the most common placement, with the most expensive floors being stained colors, laid in patterns, parquets and even marquetry. Less costly floors were decorated with painted patterns and designs starting in the early 1600's, with the genesis probably being painted oilcloths which are still popular today. 

Colonial times brought smooth pine boards, and the 18th century saw painting to simulate stone and simple checked patterns combined with floor cloths in elaborate designs and marbelized diamond patterns being very common. These were used primarily in hallways, dining rooms and parlors. Finer cuts of wood and inlayed designs were limited to the formal and nicer rooms. 

The 19th century was characterized by unfinished pine that evolved to being stained and finished by mid-century. Pine soon became subflooring as parquet got popular, with prefabricated parquet patterns being sold to install on cloth yielding "wood carpet." Herringbone oak parquet patterns abounded with the emergence of custom borders featured in dining rooms, libraries, and drawing rooms.