I would not be happy..It appears a very beautiful home. Tear it out and install prefinished..for a furniture grade finish guarantee.

it is an advantage of factory finish, but realistically there is no reason that the imperfections couldn't be redone. Screen and recoat the whole floor, but site finished is vulnerable to air bubbles, residue etc etc but tearing out seems like an extreme solution to a pretty minor problem.

I agree that tearing out is an extreme solution. You may be expecting way too much here, but you have only shown us the 'trouble spots', so it's difficult to say if that's true or not.

In any site-finished hardwood floor, you may find tiny bits of debris in the finished floor. These small things can stick out like a sore thumb. The more that time is spent on vacuuming and tacking, the less that debris finds its way into the finish.

Add to the fact that you may have rushed the finisher, I am not surprised that you are finding things wrong with the finish. Also, if by "I'll do it again" he meant a complete resand and finish all in one day...well there's your problem; it can't be done successfully. If he just screened and recoated, then it is possible to complete that work in a day.

The new flooring contractor just left. He didn't think the floors looked bad. Said it is expected to get 'trash' in the finish. It will wear off in a few years. He has seen worse. He should be comparing to a standard, not a relative comparison!

He is going to give a price for screen & refinish and sand, stain & refinish. He uses Bona Mega, which is a less expensive product than Street Shoe.

NO WAY, no how would I accept that even if it was one spot. All places would be corrected PROPERLY or they could pull it up and start over It is the GC's sub...and the GC should do what it takes to get it right.

Mega is an OK product. Traffic by Bona is twice what Mega is and costs double per gallon than Mega. Street Shoe is somewhere between Mega and Traffic, both in wholesale cost and finish quality (my opinion).

I don't understand the thinking of some of my hardwood colleagues. So "trash" will 'wear off' in a few years?! What?! It is a relatively simple thing to go back to a job, take a single edge razor blade and slice the offending debris from the floor.

Like I said in my previous post, "In any site-finished hardwood floor, you may find tiny bits of debris in the finished floor." Cut those few tiny bits out and you've got an almost flaw-free result. Of course, your floor may not be 'good enough' for such a simple fix.

Best of luck with your next resand.

Glenn, I don't think the floor would be a candidate for the simple fix. There is rarely an area of the floor that does not have trash in the finish. It would be overwhelming to remove it with a razor blade.

I disagree on the second contractor's assessment. However, we settled on $750 credit: approximately 500 sq ft of floor will credit the cost of a screen and finish at $1.50 sq ft. just to be done with it.

Screen the finish (sanding it with a special open screen to prevent clogging the sanding material).

THOROUGHLY clean the area.

It takes a good amount of time to clean up for the final coats.

Every square inch needs to be vacuumed.

ONLY then apply another coat of finish.

Razor blades are for an occasional piece of lint from the spreader, this would appear much worse.