These floors were going to be RIPPED UP 😱 

Couple of those floors look like someone saved ALOT of different scraps, and spent a great a great deal of time to make fantastic one of a kind floors. I would be so proud to have something like that in my house.

That sunburst floor at the end was outrageous! The guys who installed that beauty were true artists.

MANY years ago when I was 18, I worked for a floor layer and helped install a floor similar to the second to last floor in your video. All the pieces were precision cut and numbered by some custom hardwood supplier and all we had to do was build the puzzle. It was 9 foot diameter Sun. There was also other contractors working in this very expensive home. It took several days to piece it together. Owner called us back, there was a 6 foot arch gouged into the floor. The other contractors were cutting framing lumber on the new floor with a circular saw, blade guard stuck back and when he put it on the floor blade still spinning it skipped right across the Sun. 35 000$ just for the hardwood. Other contractors packed up and ran. Owner then paid us to sand and refinish a brand new floor. We had to remove almost a 1/4 inch/6mm. Good thing it was 3/4inch thick boards. The owner was way more chill about it than I would have been.

People don’t realize how extremely expensive these floors - that they were about to rip up - would be to install today! Great work! These floors look majestic!!

I'm in love with ALL the herringbone floors. I never see those here in the States. So beautiful. I especially liked the pine herringbone and the first one even though I don't usually like "busy". That first herringbone floor was STUNNING!

This is what kills me. All these beautiful floors and we all know that many would be tossed if not for people who care. That’s why I’m a sucker for Victorian homes. All the woodwork and inlays. We as a people don’t have an appreciation for work like this anymore. Great video.

I love seeing these before and after pics without doing all the hard work 😂 thank you

This is the whole point of wood floors is being able to refinish and not have to replace for a lifetime. Its nice to see peolle going back to this or using marble tile, etc. for lasting results. Wood is warm and comfortable and patterns can be so artistic. The "Chris Pratt" at 7:00 and the one after (the sunburst) are my favorites.

I live in the U.S.A. Our house is about 102 years old. We have wood floors throughout. When we bought the home 20 years ago, the first thing we did was replace all the windows. 32 windows, Yikes! Next, we pulled up all of the carpeting, and sanded the wax and wear off of the maple floors. They had some scratches, some burn marks, and we had to remove about 100 screws from the floor. (We were told the screws were to decrease the squeaky floors, LOL!) Then we carefully blended a wood look epoxy to fill in the holes, sanded and refinished, they look great!

WOW... Great to see someone have a bit of pride in the job they have done. This is more than someone just doing their job. 10 out of 10

Each one of those is a masterpiece, from the pine to the exotics. There truly is nothing quite like the detail of wood grain in flooring. Stunning!

When I was doing remodels we had a subcontractor who was fantastic with revitalizing and installing new wood floors. Was always entertaining to see the before and after. There were a couple of jobs where the owner was talked out of ripping out some scuffed up wood floors that were glad they didn't. There's nothing like a good high quality wood floor

My artist uncle bought an old barn in the '80s. He and his friend the contractor converted it in to a beautiful home. They kept whatever of the old wood they could. (I think mostly hickory?) They even kept the built-in ladders that had led to the loft. They became sort of room dividers. What they couldn't save of the floors they replaced with oak.

Your workmanship and care started my day off as a contractor with a smile. Thank you for your efforts

Great video, I have parquet flooring under my ceramic tiles that I want to restore. It's going to be a big job but wouldn't mind sharing my progress as I complete the job. FYI - Chris Pratt wasn't in The Office, he was in Parks and Recreation.

That's GOT TO be a satisfying trade. What beauty you restore! It breaks my heart when new home owners prematurely rip up hardwood floors. I have a small home with simple maple floors and I treasure it.

Small nitpick, Chris Pratt was in Parks and Recreation not the office 😅 Other than that this video is fantastic and you’re really skilled at revitalizing old wood floors

That herringbone floor with all the different exotics was 🤩 it looked 3D when you were done and i just kept getting lost in the movement of the wood. I can only imagine how expensive that must have been when originally installed. Top notch refinish 👌

I have been refinishing hardwood floors for over 35 years and the hummel is probably the best sander around. Nothing looks better than a refinished floor especially herringbone. Nice work !!

The transformation of the face nailed pine floor was remarkable! Amazing work!

Theater one reminds me of the historical houses I work in frequently. Lots of them have these extravagant wood flooring. Absoutly amazing work

This floor looks gorgeous after sanding & preserving it! What a wonderful job you did on it! I absolutely love the herringbone style. And that center medallion is amazing!

Helped a friend renovate his deceided grandfather's house. Ripped out carpet and there it was, beautiful oak floor thru out the house. At the time was a residential cabinet builder and witnessed lots of floor work. After convincing my friend that I was sure about getting good results, we rented gear and went for it. After a light sanding, and a second coat of poly, the results were way beyond his expectations. First time viewing your channel and do appreciate showing what sometimes people can't visualize. Good day. 🇺🇲🍺

DUDE!!! My grandmother's home was built in 1958. It was Originally built with wood floors. Kept them through the 60's. Then in the 70's carpet took over. Now it's a mix of carpet and linoleum. I have always wanted to Rio all that up and resurface the original wood floors. You are living my dream!

Wow! That’s what I call making a silk purse out of a sow’s ear! So satisfying to watch; I can only imagine how it must feel to actually do the restoration. Congratulations!

You do beautiful work! So many people find the parquettry flooring too busy and old fashioned. They are absolute works of art. They involve a lot of work, planning and cutting edges and angles. They are complete works of art and many have been lost. It's unfortunate.

I thought only us Americans like to throw away anything old and scruffy, lol. I've done a couple DIY home renovations and so appreciate your love for restoration :)

It is satisfying to watch a video made by someone who loves their work.

Back in the 60s and 70s, the latest fashion was wall to wall carpet. People were covering up their wood floors for the warmth and comfort of carpet. When I removed the carpet from our dining room, there was a broken coke bottle underneath and the carpet was laid over a muddy boot prints! We laid down oak parquet flooring.

Wow. Fabulous work! I wouldn't want to put furniture in the last one. Who would want to hide that incredible workmanship?

Thank you for sharing! This helps teach others to RESTORE their wood floors, not cover them with cheaply-made blah. 😔 The trees deserve to be revealed and enjoyed again! The men in my family are finished carpenters so I greatly appreciate this work. You’re an inspiration and your work is beautiful.💕

A few of those floors were so ornate, just beautiful! They all looked fantastic when they were done. Great job!

Amazing transformation. I love the old woodwork. Baltimore has a ton of this beautiful architecture. Great work man!!

That "ornate" floor was amazing. A lot of math went into that, and the craftsman had to cut so many angled cuts, perfectly. I wonder if it was made before or after the advent of table saws. Otherwise, making all of those cuts by hand would be a nightmare, and a testament to the craftsman.

At 7:12, the custom inlaid floor is amazing, you saved it with the refinishing, making it look as good as the day it was laid down. Congrats, and to the other fine jobs on display in the video.

Lovely!!! Thanks for preserving and bringing back to life!!!

That floor is amazing! You got the chance to work on a piece of art and add your signature to it. Those are the jobs you go above and beyond for.

That is the greatest thing about wood floors, they can be refinished. My father in law put in a hard wood floor in their house about 40 years ago and last year they had it refinishing. It still looks great

fantastic video. what you did not notice on one of the finished floors was that it was originally laid to give a 3D effect, look again at it

I will never understand why people cover or rip up wooden floors 🙈 Amazing work with the restorations! Must be so satisfying. That sunburst in the "oval office" tho 😲🤩😍

Awesome video, apreciate the old sander there too and the lack of dust definitely saves the lungs.

The floors look stunning. Sad to think how many get torn out that could have not only been saved but been more lovely than what they were replaced with. Side note: Chris Pratt was in “Parks and Recreation”.

Wow Ben, great work on this video! The before and after's were amazing.

Absolutely stunning floors. Just imagine how many homes have had their original features ripped out. Very sad to even think about.

Those exotic woods are so nice! And I agree they’re garish but there’s nothing wrong with a floor being the centre piece of a room

Stunning work, I came to see the custom floor which was stunning.

I'd love to have a custom floor like that one it looked beautiful

So beautiful 😍 What a piece of work must it have been to do the detailed floors. Luckily the trend keeping the existing wooden floors goes strong.

Beautiful floors. Great job in restoration them. Real wood can last centuries. The cork was new for me but cool. A wooden floor with a nice carpet on is the way to go, and use of indoor slippers and not shoes worn outside :-). The Colombian Pine Herring Wood tile floor at 6:47 became spectacular after but at 7:12 what an unbelievable floor, and the room!! It should not even have a furniture on it, people should just bring their mat and their essential oil japanese burner or what is called and sit there and meditate, do yoga, just enjoy life on it.

You clearly love your job, & it's really refreshing to see someone who takes pride in doing a good job! 👍🏻

this reminded me of a house I tried to buy. when we got it, they had that garbage vinyl flooring but under it was honestly really pretty hardwood floor that just needed a little TLC but after the flood, there was no saving it. now brown recluses and wasps have taken over the whole house. it's terrifying just thinking about going down there ;~;

I would love to do the sanding part! So satisfying!! The herringbone pattern is stunning!!

I loved this video! The floors look amazing. That beautiful circular floor is a famous one, seen this on tv. So glad you got to do it, great job. :)

What a sad world this would be if these priceless masterpieces were ripped up, never to be seen again. Thank you for doing what you do.

If I had a old style wood floor I would never tear it up! Keep this forever. They don’t make them like these anymore.

Beautiful 😍 I can see how it can be so satisfying to renew something so sad into something like that!

Awesome video! Loved the before and after shots! Just a heads up, "Chris Pratt in Parks and Recreations" not "The Office". It's okay though, we got what you were saying hahaha

I think a couple of the floors in the beginning are walnut. You'll get the darker pieces along with the blonde along with the red. The wood grain also looks like walnut. All those floors are absolutely gorgeous after you worked your magic!

Gonna have to suggest this to my folks. Lots of nasty stains from small dogs over the years, no matter how clean it is it's still stained. Sanding it may be just the thing to make it new again.

Reminds me of my Uncle’s house in San Diego. Someone carpeted over these awesome hardwood floors. We sanded and refinished the floors. This was over 10 years ago. The floor sander is like magic.

I've gotten to do two old houses both three stories. You're correct, it is a very satisfying task.

Home Depot rented me a faulty sander and charged me again to replace it a few hrs later. Been scared of wood floors and Home Depot since. You gave me a bit of confidence back. Good work!

Layed and sanded floors for over 20 yrs. It was so satisfying watching the transformation. Old floors naturally end up darker than a new install. And depending on wood type. My favorites were old heart pine floors. The ones I hated most were any with wax on them 🤣

Those floors are gorgeous!! It's a great thing that you enjoy your job!!

The floor at 4:54 looks the same as my house's. It's a brazilian wood we call here "Ipê amarelo". I searched and it seems it's called Yellow Lapacho in english. It's a tree from the Handroanthus genus, and considered to be a hardwood very resistant to fire and bugs.

I'm watching this during work ... and i have no regrets!

When we bought our house we ripped up a battered old carpet and found near mint parquet floors underneath. We had them refinished but there was a couple of spots in the closets where the carpet adhesive strips were literally melted into the floors and no amount of sanding or chemicals could get it off

Gorgeous! One of the favorite parts of my old house are my wood floors!! I need to get a repair person out since they’re starting to be some cracks in between the pieces.

That has to be one of the most satisfying jobs! Wood floors in good condition add so much beauty and character to any room.

You are correct that one floor was mahogany I refinished a mahogany floor about 3 months ago in a mansion and it looked just like the one in this video ABSOLUTELY AMAZING looking wood

I'm really excited to get my floors sanded later this year!

My primary school and subsequently the church I went to both had herringbone floors - they needed some work doing to them! Love these kinds of videos and wish I had wooden floors in my house!

I see a lot of that first floor here in Chicago. The gray area in the middle is from Linoleum covering it for many decades. I once removed a vinyl tile floor and it's underlayment, to find a full sheet (about 8' x 10' as I recall) of vintage Linoleum, preserved underneath since the 1950s. Sadly, the Linoleum was badly damaged from a hundred or so underlayment nails driven through it. The Breakfast at The Ritz floor definitely looks like mahogany. I'm holding an oil finished piece right now. Color and grain is identical.

Beautiful work. Gotta love wood floors. Ugh I miss mine. Used to clean and polish em on hands and knees to be perfect lol

The next to last floor, the custom medallion was done in a quilting block style, it’s a type of New York Beauty block. Also a modified Hexie block.

My old house had beautiful narrow board oak floors under gross looking mastic and carpet glue and two layers of filthy old carpet and their degrading pads. The mastic remover was a beast and I had to start sanding with a coarse grit and work my way finer. In the end I got beautiful wood floors, and they still look good even though they’ve taken a beating for the last 5 years with a family and two large dogs in the house. Unfortunately my upstairs rooms had only the boards of the subfloor so I had to install flooring in those rooms.

I love refinishing hardwood floors over sanding new floors, any day, I've been in the hardwood floor business for over 30 years I've refinished everything from homes to bowling alleys basketball courts to dance floors

If you sand your floors you are taking some of the wood away. Another method to refinish floors after your initial sanding is screen and recoat. With this type of sanding you are only roughing up the surface to stick more finish on. I think many floor sanding people won't do this because the adherence of the polyurethane isn't guaranteed unless you know what went down originally, and if you ever use wax on your floors, even just once, you cannot screen and recoat it with new finish.

That second one looks like books on end from all directions that was a beautiful floor and you guys did an awesome job that coming from a carpenter of 51 years 👍

Those transformations are astounding!!!

So this video popped up in my feed. So of course I fell into the deep hole of RU-vid. I love wood working and this is amazing results. Thanks for sharing

I love wood floors. The floors you have shown make me want to rip up my carpeting and redo my wood floors. Unfortunately, I need the carpeting to help keep the house warm.

Thats why wooden floor! After years and years just a little work and good as new. Love it. 👏👏👏

The Herringbone floor has a 3D effect. Someone spent a told of time with the layout. Thank you for saving it.

Awesome work! Gorgeous floors!

1:51 looks like a cue maker saved scraps from the blanks and made a floor with it. Love it.

All beautiful!!! Love the added humor at the end. 😉

im a painter was in charge for renovating hotel rooms in one of the oldest building in our town (build in 1596 turned into an hotel 1850s). the owner of the building/hotel sadly didn't want to spend a lot of money till i conviced him to take care of these beautifull 200 year old woodfloors. at first i thought i would never get them sanded properly because of the old oil used there and how wobbly the floor was. after i finished the first one he couldn't belive how beautiful they were and i ended up doing 10 more floors that were worth saving.

Hey man, I sanded floors for a few years and I gotta say it's one of the most satisfying jobs to see done from start to finish

I did this work for a bit. It was very satisfying. Our belt sander was a Gorilla, but the Trio looked the same. You make these floors so pretty.

We recently bought a 50s house. We had the carpet ripped up to redo the flooring and it had super pretty hardwood floors under. Sadly my husband dislikes brown floors and wanted grey. So we just had the floorers keep the hardwood protected and put out flooring over it. That way whoever gets out house next has a choice between our grey vinyl floors or the natural hardwood

You sir, are a different breed of artist. Dam good stuff! Now you have got me hooked. Just amazing!

Quite an encouragement for my 100+ yr old wood floors. They haven't been properly cared for and need a thorough cleaning and refinish.

Love the video. I have a floor with staining and was going to cover it with carpet. After watching this I may try and have it saved depending on if it is cost affective or not.

I absolutely love herringbone parquet floors. Lived in a condo that had them. So pretty!

My highschool main hall in New Zealand had indoor basketball, netball etc, and the floor was beautiful polished parquet woods of different species.. I remember admiring the artistry and workmanship, and it was well maintained I never saw any damage.

Love your work, loove wood floors. South africa 🇿🇦 🇿🇦

The herringbone floors are absolutely gorgeous!

that first herringbone floor and that decorative one that looks like steel feathers are amazing

Timber should rarely be painted in my view, enjoy the natural beauty of it. These revamped floors are brilliant , sunburst one is truly a work of art.