Hardwood Floor Repair in Toronto & the GTA

Hardwood earns its reputation by being repairable — but only if the repair respects how the floor was built. A gouged board in a hundred-year-old strip oak floor, a pet-stained patch by the door, a plank cupped by a dishwasher leak: each of these is fixable without refinishing the whole room, and each goes wrong in a predictable way when someone attacks it with the wrong filler or pries up a tongue-and-groove board like a crowbar job.

Scratched hardwood repair starts with diagnosis: scratches in the finish alone can be blended and recoated locally, while damage into the wood itself needs filling, colour work, or board replacement. Replacing a board in tongue-and-groove flooring means cutting out the damaged plank in place — splitting it lengthwise so its neighbours keep their edges — then trimming the new board's tongue to drop it in, glued and pinned. Matching is the craft: species, grain, board width, and a finish colour aged to match yours, tested somewhere hidden first. Gap filling is its own judgment call, because seasonal gaps that close every summer should mostly be left alone, while fixed gaps from shrunken boards can be filled with slivers or flexible filler.

For a free quote, send close-up photos of the damage, a wider shot of the room, and if possible a photo of any leftover boards from the original install — spares in the basement make a hardwood patch dramatically easier. Note the board width and whether the floor is solid or engineered if you know.

• Individual board replacement in tongue-and-groove floors
• Scratched hardwood repair — blending, filling and local recoating
• Gouge and dent repair with colour-matched fillers and burn-in sticks
• Hardwood patching where walls or vents were moved
• Water-stain and pet-stain assessment, with honest limits on what blending can hide
• Gap filling with wood slivers or flexible filler where appropriate
• Re-securing loose and creaking boards
• Sourcing reclaimed or matching stock for older floors
• Transition and threshold repairs between rooms
• Advice on when local repair beats refinishing, and when it doesn't

• Spare boards — leftover stock from the original install makes replacement clean; sourcing a match for an older floor can take longer than the repair itself
• Floor age and species — modern red oak strip is easy to match, while old-growth boards, exotic species and discontinued widths need salvage sourcing
• Finish type — site-finished floors accept local blending well; factory-finished boards with bevelled edges are harder to patch invisibly
• Extent of damage — one board is surgical work, while a water-damaged area may involve subfloor drying and several courses
• Solid versus engineered — solid wood tolerates repeated repair and sanding, but thin-veneer engineered boards limit the options to replacement
• Colour matching ambition — floors aged and sunned for decades take patient tinting to match, and dead-invisible is not always achievable

Every home is different, so we don’t publish flat prices — the quote is free and based on your actual job.