Hardwood Floor Refinishing in Beaverton, Oregon
What it costs, and what Beaverton's housing stock does to the job.
Floor refinishing in a 1987-median city
The median Beaverton home was built in 1987 and 2.2% of the city’s housing predates 1940. For floor refinishing specifically, that is not background color — it is the thing that decides the job.
There is unlikely to be an original floor waiting here — this housing is postwar and later, so what gets refinished is a floor somebody chose rather than one you inherited. That makes the question narrower and more practical: is the wear in the finish or in the wood? If the surface is dull and scratched but not stained through, a screen and recoat costs a fraction of a full sand, takes a day and removes no wood at all. It is worth asking for by name.
Beaverton is 2.2% prewar against a 1987 median — the second-newest housing among the eight west-side cities here. Washington County grew outward in the eighties and nineties, and that vintage means engineered subfloors, predictable joist spacing and very few surprises when the carpet comes up. The wet-side climate still applies: this is a place where solid hardwood is a defensible choice and where the money is better spent on the finish and on what happens at the entries than on hedging against a humidity swing that does not happen here.
What it costs in Beaverton
Portland metro is the Oregon labor baseline, so the range below matches the statewide $3–$9. Installed, materials and labor together:
| Work | Beaverton range | Oregon range |
|---|---|---|
| Refinishing existing boards | $3 – $9 a square foot | $3 – $9 a square foot |
An estimate, not a quote. These are planning ranges for Oregon, not a quote. What you actually pay depends on your rooms, your subfloor and the material you choose.
Extras are where a Beaverton job most often moves away from the band: removing the old floor, prepping a plank subfloor, and stairs. The cost estimator prices those separately against your own room.
Questions worth asking before you book
- What is the subfloor, and what does it need? 2.2% of Beaverton homes predate 1940 and the median build year is 1987, so plywood or OSB is the likelier answer here and a plank subfloor is the exception worth ruling out. How to identify yours.
- Is the old floor coming out or being covered? Covering costs less and is sometimes the safer answer, but it costs you height at doors and at the bottom stair riser.
- What is the cut-and-waste allowance? Ten percent is normal; older or irregular rooms take more, and cuts are labor.
- What did the slab read, and what did the boards read? An installer who measured both has told you more than a classification code could. What Oregon licenses, and what it does not.