I had Marco and his crew install new flooring in my kitchen as well as sanding, refinishing, and staining my existing hardwood floors. They did an excellent job and were faster than expected. Also, Marco was very responsive. His prices are more than fair and I would gladly use him again. read more

Marcos and his team did a great job. Fast, clean and efficient. His team added base molding with a great finishing touch. The hardwood floor looks beautiful!!! read more

Marco and his crew did a beautiful job repairing and refinishing my hardwood floors. Marco responded quickly when I called for a free quote and was able to start my project the following week, which was awesome! Marco's quote was fair in comparison to other companies that were definitely over charging. The crew worked fast and efficiently. Marco communicated every step to me, sent progress pictures and even finished a day earlier than expected. The floors look fabulous and I couldn't be happier! read more

Marco Ramirez Hardwood Floor - Refined hardwood floors. - Flooring Near Me - Oakland, California

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Mr. Ramirez is excellent. He worked on time and as scheduled and did absolutely *beautiful* work even doing last minute repairs as needed without extra charge. Further, after something spilled and ruined a part of the newly done floor, he agreed to come back and fix the damage for free!! read more

This was, without question, the most frustrating and disappointing experience I've ever had with a home improvement project. Everything below is based on what I personally saw during the installation inside my own home. Right from the start, basic flooring practices were not being followed. The installer wasn't using ANY spacers. I had to stop the job, leave the house, and buy multiple bags of spacers myself. What shocked me even more was that Marco openly told me they don't use spacers at all. I could not believe a flooring company would actually admit that. Even after I supplied the spacers, they were used inconsistently and--based on what I watched--incorrectly. As a result, the floor developed visible gaps everywhere. A large number of plank ends were not tapped together properly. Many gaps were large enough for me to see the underlayment. When I pointed this out, the Marco only acknowledged the most extreme cases and insisted the rest were 'normal.' Standing there looking at it myself, it absolutely did not look normal. In my opinion as the homeowner, the majority of these gaps should never have existed in the first place. The perimeter expansion spacing was also not done correctly, despite my very clear instructions for a 1/4" gap. After the installation, I found boards pushed directly against the wall in multiple places, with other areas showing inconsistent spacing. This was the opposite of what I requested. There was also preventable damage to my home during the installation. After the flooring boxes were dragged around, I found fresh dents and scuff marks on my walls that were not there before. Walls that I just had retextured and painted. On top of that, the installer plugged a refrigerator into one of my outlets to keep drinks cold, and when it was moved later, the outlet was ripped partially out of the wall. That turned into yet another repair I had to handle myself. The most serious issue for me was learning afterward that the planks were glued together in a way that makes the floor almost impossible to repair. Every flooring professional I spoke with told me the same thing: because the boards were glued together, repairs aren't realistically possible. If I try to remove even a single plank, it will be damaged and unusable afterward. Because of this, I now have to live with the fact that the only way to fix these issues is a complete tear-out and replacement at some point. For me as a homeowner, that means going through another full construction project inside my home--something I never expected right after paying for a new floor. What makes it even worse is knowing how disruptive it will be: all our furniture and belongings will need to be moved around again, and we'll have to deal with the noise, dust, and chaos of another major installation. I was hoping to have everything finished before we moved in, but now it looks like the replacement will have to happen while we're actually living there. This review reflects only what happened inside my home, but based on everything I personally witnessed, I would strongly urge others to be extremely cautious before hiring this installer. read more

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Marco's work and service is outstanding! If you are looking to get new hardwood or refinish existing floors, Marco and his team are your guys. They've been working on our floors all week and the process has been seamless. I don't have any complaints. Marco gives you a fair price for his craft and is super humble and honest. You can tell that he takes so much pride in his work with the amount of detail he and the team put in. We recently bought an older home and are undergoing major renovations. Our previous floors were old, smelled, and were scratched up (as you can see from the pictures). Marco and the team removed all the compromised flooring, sanded down floorboards, installed new hardwood, and refinished the existing hardwood that was salvageable. The floors were one of the last renovations to be done and it just gave our house a total facelift. Again, if you are looking to hire someone to do your floors. Marco is your guy! read more

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Marco was the best. Flooring after sanding and staining looks great. He didn't up charge and made sure we were happy. Price was same as others plus he threw in more. Also had him do baseboards. Will be using him for all our jobs. read more

Marco Ramirez Hardwood Floor - Original floor restored. Also added laminate and will add baseboards. Will post more pics. - Flooring Near Me - Oakland, California

Absolutely impressed. Highly recommend. We had a garage floor project that I tried to install myself and had difficulty. I had several estimates from other flooring companies that recommended leveling the concrete, but Marco was able to assess the floor very quickly and within a few minutes gave a confident recommendation that we did not need to level the floor. He was able to successfully install the floors without needing to level the concrete and it's absolutely perfect. He was communicative, punctual and his estimate was half the price of all other estimates. We will use him again for our flooring needs and highly recommend him to anyone needing floor work. read more

Awesome price and fast. Next competitor was more than 2x price. No BS just knocks it out. Thank you Marco!

I'm very pleased with a difficult repair to my original oak floor for a Berkeley Hill's mid-century. The job required new oak for a 50 square foot patch to match the room-well done! Marco's team was efficient, on time, on budget and very skilled. read more

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Excellent job, i had them start in the morning and had a new floor when i got back from work. The workmanship was absolutely perfect! read more

Marco Ramirez Hardwood Floor - Durring repair - Flooring Near Me - Oakland, California

This business did a marvelous job. They restored the hardwood floors of a 3 bedroom house to look almost like the original condition. The Tenant had pasted that LVT flooring on it....damaging the original hardwood floors. This company repaired some closet floor areas that were severly damaged. Also replacing some severely damaged boards. The price was reasonable and the process was completed quickly. We recommend this business with confidence. read more

Marco is amazing and does beautiful work. We even got him to do more than a floor, he installed our shiplap brick on our wall. The overall effect is incredible and amazing. read more

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We were so impressed with the work Marco and his team did on our basement addition. Our house is from the 1920's, so we wanted to match the wood tone and plank width to the original floors upstairs. Marco guided us on the best time of wood to install and the best install process to match. The floors look beautiful and importantly match our existing floors incredibly well! read more

Thank you to all of the previous recommendations on Marco Ramirez. We contacted him, and he was able to stop by our house that evening and give an estimate. We were very happy with his cost and offered him the work, which was to remove the old wall-to-wall carpet that was on the stairs, along the hallway, and in a guest room, and install hardwood floors in those areas. He and his assistant were able to start the project quickly, were on budget, and on time. The quality of his work is EXCELLENT! The value is EXCELLENT! We will hire him again to do two more rooms! Look no further for a hard wood floor installer! Super nice and sweet people! read more

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Marco and his crew are amazing. We thought we'd have to replace the floors in our new house until someone told us that these apparent badly worn planks could be refinished and that the white oak would really shine. Well, Marco confirmed this and only 3 days to sand and natural finish to the exact color that I was looking for at a fraction of price of replacing with new. The results are beautiful! Could not believe this was possible. We could not thank him enough for taking care of this project. Highly highly recommend him for your floor refinishing project. read more

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Cannot say enough great things about Marco. Would give him 6 stars if I could.  Obviously we love the floors and he did a great job. But the process and experience was also top notch: - We asked to see 4 samples with stain and finish options, and he made a test grid right on our floor so we could make an informed decision we knew we were going to be happy with - We had a somewhat complicated install as we were refinishing existing floors, and also extending hardwood from the dining room into the kitchen. You cannot tell the difference between the old and new floors and it looks perfectly continuous. We also had to figure out what to do with the gap between the new floor and the bottom of the cabinets, and Marco did a great job installing quarter-round to cover the gap, which we then painted to match the cabinets.  - We had a tight timeline as we were trying to stack a bunch of projects before moving into our new home, and Marco was very accommodating and finished the job exactly on time - He is also just a good and trustworthy partner, and would recommend him for any flooring job read more

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Marco did an amazing job adding wood flooring to our home. His price and craftsmanship was excellent. He did a good job of matching our existing floor style and color. read more

Marco was such a great find! After 60 years in the same house my parents have moved into assisted living. Marco did an incredible job of both refinishing the original hardwood and laying new wood ( that matches seamlessly to the old) in the areas that were tile. You can not tell where the old ends and the new begins! He did a fantastic job! read more

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Marco's work is fantastic and I would highly recommend him to anyone. He is detail oriented, thorough, honest, transparent about costs, a good communicator, reliable, and efficient. He refinished our solid white oak floors and they look brand new! There was an area with water damage and wood rot that he replaced and it looks seamless with the rest of the floors. He communicated well about the additional/unexpected work and made sure we were agreeable to the plan to replace before he started working on it. He was trust worthy and clearly takes pride in his work. The quality of his work is excellent! He was accommodating of our timeline and finished on time. We are so happy with his work! read more

So happy with our floors! They were polite, efficient, and flexible. We went from ugly orange wood floors to a beautiful walnut-same as I saw in a CB2 catalog last season. Turned out just like the photo. I wish I had more work for them to do! read more

Marco Ramirez Hardwood Floor - Flooring Near Me - Oakland, California

I called Marco and asked if he could come to my house and give me an estimate to repair damage to the hardwood floors in 2 rooms. He was able to come by within 2 hours and gave me a very reasonable estimate. He and his team came by 2 days later to start work. They sealed off the rooms with plastic to prevent dust from spreading and worked straight-through, replacing boards and restoring others such that both rooms had a matching, like-new quality about them. Then they varnished the floors, coming back 2 days later to put on another coat. We are left with pristine, clean, matching floors of the highest quality. They are beautiful. On top of all that, Marco is an absolute professional and does what he says he'll do, and in the most friendly, pleasant and helpful manner. I love having hardwood floors throughout our home, but the truth is that they suffer from the wear and tear of use and traffic and therefore need refinishing from time to time. Next time I need this type of work done, I will for sure call Marco Ramirez. read more

Marco did a phenomenal job sanding, finishing, fixing and matching rotten patches of our hardwood floors. His team was quick and efficient. More importantly they were able to do the work in 3 days, accommodating our crunch between when we closed on our house and had to move in. We got daily updates from him and when he found some additional rot, he called and asked us before doing any work that wasn't included in his original estimate. Great work, fair pricing. read more

Marco Ramirez Hardwood Floor - Flooring Near Me - Oakland, California

Marco and his team did an amazing job! They exceeded my expectations, and my floors look beautiful!

I'm so happy to have found Marco to do my floors, he was fast and very professional. His pricing is extremely fair and he met my needs. I'm so incredibly happy with how they turned out. read more

Marco Ramirez Hardwood Floor - Flooring Near Me - Oakland, California

I have wanted to refinish my hardwood floors and stairs for years! Finally decide to pull the trigger as they say. I used the Yelp project program which is amazing if you have never used it before you must check it out! Inputted my job details that I needed along with photos and Yelp then sends it out to folks that do that kind of work. Within an hour I had several folks contact me. Marco had great reviews and he came the same day to look at the job and gave me a very competitive bid along with his availability to start that week. He and his assistance arrived in the morning and in two days - presto- gorgeous floors and stairs. Not only did they do a fantastic job but they thoroughly cleaned up each day leaving my home as they found it. He not only refinished the floors and stairs buts also did the painting of the stairs white. Again, very well done. I could not be more pleased and highly recommend Marco and his team for any hardwood floor refinishing needs! Thanks again Marco! read more

Marco Ramirez Hardwood Floor - Before refinishing! - Flooring Near Me - Oakland, California

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Marco did a fantastic job repairing and refinishing our ~400 sqft living room hardwood floor. He got the job in a single day, working long hours. The floor looks great and the overall experience was very positive. read more

Marco worked twice at my house. Both times it was to replace the carpet with hardwood floors (maple). Marco and his team were extremely efficient and the floors look pristine. He was very cautious about the color of the new floors to make it match the existing ones. My next project is to replace the carpet in the stairs with hardwood floors and I will def hire Marco again! Fine work and super clean Bonus: I really appreciated his professionalism when he came for a quote. I recommend him 200% read more

Marco and team did an amazing job at my project, which had some original hardwood flooring as well as empty spaces for new flooring. Marco & team extended the original parquet floor by hand, and used labor intensive ways to recreate the exact geometric pattern and shading. They made the transition seamless between the original and new parquet floor. I was very impressed and relieved that the parquet flooring could be preserved and extended in this way. The team also added new hardwood floors and refinished existing ones in other rooms. They stained and varnished all the flooring (old & new) to make the entire floor look seamless. They also added engineered hardwood flooring in other areas of the project. Overall, I was very happy with Marco's professionalism, responsiveness, attention to detail, flexibility, proactive updates, and speed of work. Marco also went above and beyond in accommodating requests such as adding protective covering on flooring, adding transitions to bathroom floors, fixing minor details in stairs etc. I really appreciated how much Marco accommodates a client's wishes for even the smallest of design details. For the sheer amount of work and repeat visits that went into my project, I was also happy with Marco's rates. A true professional -- highly recommended. read more

Marco and his associate did great work re-finishing our hardwood floors. They were communicative, showed up on time, worked efficiently, and finished the job well. We will hire them again for any future flooring needs! read more

Wow wow wow!!! Marco just left and we are so impressed and happy! Take a look at these before-and-after pictures. Plus, he and his son took 2 hours and very carefully dismantled the furniture that was in the room and took it downstairs so he could do the floor. Very nice and personable, and he was quick and responsive. We needed the work done asap and he got it done! I am happy to recommend Marco! read more

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Marco was great to work with. I was impressed from the beginning because he actually looked around and measured carefully. The other people didn't measure and just said a dollar amount. Marco did the work up and I felt like it was objective. So I trusted him and he was worthy of it because he and his team worked hard and very fast, producing beautiful results! He was conscientious, stayed in touch with me, payment was easy, and he's also just a nice person! Thank you Marco! read more

Marco Ramirez Hardwood Floor - Flooring Near Me - Oakland, California

I hired Marco to sand and seal about 600 sq ft of wood floors. Marco told me to wait and have my painters paint first, which I did, WRONG! Although the floors looked nice after they were sanded and sealed they hit my newly painted ( three weeks ago) baseboards and chipped them all up as well they got wood sealer on the baseboards and I had to have them repainted, not happy. I advise you not pay Marco until you can check everything first. We paid him before we could walk on the floors and see the damage to the paint. read more

Marco was quick and did a great job at our house in Fruitvale. We installed new hardwood flooring (we bought it ourselves from LL), and he explained how he was going to install it against the existing tall, original baseboard. He also did a very nice job with the details. We had some transitions and some steps and they are turned out really nice. He also came back to make a patches when I asked him to. English is limited, but we got by. I would definitely recommend Marco and his team. read more

Marco Ramirez does the finest work installing, sanding and finishing hardwood floors. He has installed oak floor in one room in our Sebastopol house, and then we had him do the floor in an addition. We are having him back to sand and refinish the oak floor in another room that was badly installed by another installer. read more

Marco did a great job on two of my houses. One he did major floor repair, match and old 8" oak flooring and replacement of boards. the other house he refinished the hardwood. Both came out really well and very fair on pricing. Will use him again read more

I Love the Job that Marco Did on my floors this was my 1st time having to get the flooring for my whole house replaced I did not know what to expect and I was afraid but marco came and put away all my fears he was nice reliable honest honest he did great quality work, He went above and beyond expectations and did some extra things for me that he did not have to do he has a loving and caring heart for his clients he can be trusted I would definitely use him again And I recommend him for anyone read more