Georgia Cost GuideHow much does it cost to refinish hardwood floors in Georgia?
Hardwood refinishing in Georgia: about $5 per sq ft, the middle of the figures posted by 5 Georgia flooring companies, collected September and October 2026.
Refinishing gives a floor you already own a new surface instead of new boards. Georgia companies post the per-square-foot figure below, and a waxed floor or a finish that must run on to a doorway can raise it.
What it costs to refinish hardwood floors in Georgia
We checked 618 Georgia flooring company websites.
This is a typical price, not a quote. The sections below explain what moves the price for this job.
What the job involves
The main area is usually sanded with a large machine, an edger takes the borders along the walls, and corners are finished by hand. The finish then goes on, often with a light buffing between coats.
Hardwood installation and engineered hardwood installation both lay new boards, and each is priced separately. Refinishing changes the surface only, so the boards stay as they are unless a repair is quoted on its own line.
What moves the price
- Wax or old products
- Wax, polish and some cleaning products can soak into the wood and keep new finish from bonding. A floor with that history can take extra cleaning or sanding before coating, and the extra time raises the price.
- Where the finish stops
- A new finish that stops in the middle of a connected floor can leave a visible line, so crews often work to a doorway or another natural break. That can make the area, and the price, larger than the room you asked about.
- Dust control
- Some companies sand with machines that capture dust, and some tape off doorways and vents to keep it out of the rest of the house. The extra equipment and prep time can raise the price.
- Very hard or soft wood
- Very hard woods wear through sandpaper faster, and soft woods such as pine gouge easily under the sander, so both can take more time than a common oak floor. Some companies charge more for them.
- Cupped or uneven boards
- Cupping usually comes from moisture, and many refinishers want the cause fixed, as separate work, before they sand. Flattening a cupped or crowned floor then takes heavier passes, which adds time and removes more wood.
Getting a quote
Questions to ask each flooring company before you compare prices:
- Will you test for wax or an earlier product before you coat, and what happens if the finish will not bond?
- Where will the new finish stop, and does the area you are pricing match the rooms I want done?
- What dust control do you use, and what do you tape off?
- What will you do about boards that are cupped or uneven?
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Where this number comes from
We collect these prices with our own crawler, which reads the public websites of Georgia flooring companies and follows each site's robots.txt rules. It has read 618 of their websites so far. Each range is the middle half of the prices those businesses post, collected September and October 2026. Where that middle half is a single price, we show it as "about" that price.
A price list is what a business says it charges; a cost guide is a business's own estimate of what the job usually runs in Georgia. We never name the businesses behind a range. How we collect and check flooring prices.
| Job | Businesses that post a price |
|---|---|
| Hardwood refinishing | 5 (2 price lists, 3 cost guides) |
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