Services
Full sand and polish, recoats, board repairs and the strata approvals that come with apartment work. Start with whichever matches your floor.
Floor Sanding and Polishing Sydney covers Sydney and the wider greater Sydney.
The core job — taking a tired timber floor back to bare wood.
Read more →Getting owners corporation approval before the floor goes in — in the right order.
Read more →Meeting the noise rating your by-law sets — and proving it.
Read more →The softwood under most inner-Sydney terraces, and why it's treated differently.
Read more →The finish itself — water-based or solvent, and how many coats.
Read more →Replacing damaged or cut boards before sanding — and the matching problem.
Read more →Refreshing a worn finish without spending the floor's remaining thickness.
Read more →Changing the colour of a floor — and the one thing to do before committing.
Read more →Block and mosaic parquetry — slower, more skilled, and easy to ruin.
Read more →Shops, offices, halls and studios — where downtime costs more than the floor.
Read more →What floor sanding actually costs in Sydney, per square metre.
Read more →There's no floor-sanding licence in NSW — here's what to check instead.
Read more →Balconies, decks and pool surrounds — and what salt air does to a finish.
Read more →Terrace stairs — narrow, steep, and the slowest square metre in the house.
Read more →Half of Sydney's apartments have one. Whether it can be sanded is one number.
Read more →Water-based, solvent, oil and hardwax — what the choice actually changes.
Read more →Where jobs typically sit. Access is usually a bigger cost driver than size.
| Job | Indicative price | What moves it |
|---|---|---|
| Sand and polish, per square metre | $40 – $70 /m² | Sydney rates run above the national average. Covers sanding plus coats. |
| Typical 3-bedroom home (~110m²) | $4,400 – $7,500 | Whole floor, sanded and finished. Condition drives the range. |
| Typical 2-bedroom apartment (~70m²) | $2,800 – $4,900 | Before any acoustic underlay, which is a separate line. |
| Single room (~15m²) | $800 – $1,400 | Small jobs carry proportionally more setup. |
| Acoustic underlay, supplied and laid | $25 – $60 /m² | Strata work. The test report matters as much as the product. |
| Acoustic test report | $400 – $1,200 | Field testing to demonstrate compliance where a by-law requires it. |
| Board replacement | $100 – $220 per board | Baltic pine and old hardwood profiles are both hard to match. |
| Extra coat of finish | $9 – $15 /m² | Three coats is standard; a high-traffic hallway may want four. |
| Parquetry restoration | $80 – $130 /m² | Slower and more skilled than strip flooring. |
| Recoat only (no full sand) | $20 – $35 /m² | Where the finish is worn but the timber is sound. Far cheaper. |
Prices are indicative only and usually quoted per square metre. What a floor costs depends on its condition, the timber, how many coats it needs and whether boards have to be replaced. In a strata building, acoustic underlay and testing add to it. You get a firm price after an inspection.
Tell us the suburb and the floor area and we'll get it to the right person.
Call 0468 165 354