Marlon’s Hardwood Floors

We recently had Marlon sand and refinish our really old flooring that had been under some carpet for many years. He did a BEAUTIFUL job, was fast, affordable, so friendly, and easy to work with. I would highly recommend working with Marlon!

My husband and I did extensive research investigating hardwood floors for our new home. We asked family and friends for guidance, however, from the moment we met Marlon, everything went out the door because his expertise and impeccable advice was exactly what we were looking for. During the entire process of removing the old flooring, installing brand-​new Oak and staining the entire house, Marlon guided us throughout the whole process and was always upfront and honest. Also, to say that Marlon is also one of the nicest individuals I have met would be an understatement. I hold Marlon and the rest of this team in the highest regard and they are #1 in my book. I feel incredibly lucky and blessed to have met this person and appreciate their amazing hard work, now I have a beautiful home because of you that will last a lifetime.

Dealing with Marlon could not have been easier. We had no trouble choosing him, since the competing estimate was from a cranky guy who wanted a lot more money. Marlon is so cheerful and easy to work with. Then when the job started, he was on time, on budget, conscientious, and communicative. He emailed us a dozen color choices, and we narrowed it down to three. He put those three down on the sanded floor on the first day, so we could choose in the actual environment. He sent us pictures of his progress every day, and tips on caring for the floors afterward.

Is this place out of business? I’ve left 2 message with no response, and have tried to call twice after that, but can’t leave a message. There’s no website and no email, and no other way to contact them, so am moving on to the next business. If there’s another way to reach them, I’d love to find out.

Marlon is amazing! He was quick to set up an estimate and got working on our refinished floors right away. Marlon gave us 3 color choices to look at once the floors were prepped and ready to go. He met with me on my tight schedule and was very pleasant and professional. The floors look great! Thanks Marlon!

I recently had my hardwood floors refurbished by Marlon. The process and his professionalism could not have been better! The floors look fantastic and he was great to provide updates along the way in the three day process as I was out of town and my tenant helped him with access etc.
He was always on time and incredibly available and helpful through the process in providing me these updates.
The price was great and I cannot recommend Marlon more highly! Thank You Marlon!!!

I found Marlon on Unilocal and just used his services to refinish a hardwood floor in a rental apt. It went exactly as expected based on all the other 5 star reviews. He was prompt, professional, fair in price, easy to work with and did a fantastic job. What more can be said? Thanks Marlon, and thank you Unilocal

Well deserved five-​star review here. We had pretty severe water damage to our hardwood floors, and Marlon and his team did a fantastic job repairing the floors. About a week after the job was complete, we had additional water damage! Marlon re-​repaired the floors at a very steep discount. He also refinished our badly stained butcher’s block… and offered to do it at no cost. Efficient, reasonably priced, and high quality… you can’t go wrong with Marlon.

We hired Marlon after getting a recommendation from our neighbors, looking him up on Unilocal,and having him come over to provide an estimate. The reviews were stellar, he was incredibly nice in person, and the price was reasonable. We had high hopes, and Marlon’s work not only did not disappoint… it completely surpassed our expectations. We were stunned by how amazing our floor looked after Marlon was finished. Check out the before and after photos.
Our building is 95 years old and 20 years ago we removed the carpet from our apartment and never refinished the floors. They were in terrible shape, very raw and damaged, with a lot of splattered paint on them from years of making art in various rooms. Marlon took one look at them and said they would be beautiful when he finished with them. He lived up to that promise and we could not be happier with the result.
On top of delivering incredible results, Marlon is a really nice guy… very friendly and professional. He returned our calls, got us scheduled at a convenient time for us, finished his work cleanly, quickly, and at the quoted price.
I would absolutely recommend Marlon to anyone who is looking for someone to refinish their hardwood floors.

I would love to give Marlon more than five stars!
After looking at our old, dull floors for 12 years, we decided it was time to investigate if anything could be done to make them nicer. We were very hesitant about the full refinishing process because of the dust and expense. We checked with a company that claims to be able to enhance the floors without the dust, but they could only promise that the floors might look better. For the price they quoted, we weren’t interested in a maybe. Time to investigate the full refinishing process, so I turned to Unilocal.
After reading all of the reviews for Marlon, I gave him a call. He came the next day to give us a quote, and not only was within our budget, but we really liked Marlon, and he clearly knew his business. Just out of curiosity, I pulled up some of the carpet from the stairs to ask if there was any chance of saving them. He suggested we refinish the treads, and paint the risers white. The following week Marlon and his crew showed up right on time and got to work sanding our ugly floors. Marlon showed us samples of the three finishes we were considering, as well as what the floor would look like if we went natural. The natural looked so beautiful that we went with that. We were amazed at how gorgeous the floors were when the job was done (three days, as promised) — water stains from previous residents, marker and stamp stains from our children, were all gone. Marlon was very careful to put up plastic on doorways before sanding, though there wasn’t nearly as much dust as we feared, and he never left a mess at the end of the day.
Marlon was very conscientious about making sure we were happy with the work — we definitely were. In fact we were so happy that we asked him about our dining room. It had carpet over linoleum. He said he could match it to the hallway, so we dumped the plan to re-​carpet.
A few days before Marlon came to do the dining room, we had a faulty faucet problem. The floor outside the bathroom was very badly damaged. When Marlon came to install the dining room floor he fixed the damaged area in a matter of minutes, and put in a beautiful new threshold between the hallway and bathroom.
We couldn’t be happier with our gorgeous new floors! Thank you, Marlon, for an amazing job!

Marlon is a real master of his work. He is also a very nice and professional person. He did a fantastic job on my floor and stairs. He matched the stain exactly to the color I wanted. He went above and beyond even the scope of work we had agreed on. He helped me patch an unrelated floor spot from a previous floor persons work, he helped me remove paint drips from my sloppy painting work, and he even helped me move a few pieces of heavy furniture up my stairs before he got started on them.
I would absolutely recommend him!

I wish they would let you put 6 stars.
Marlon’s pricing can’t be beat. To fully sand down and refinish a 1700 sq foot house he charged $ 3500. The next closest guy bid $ 8000.
The floors are perfect. His guys even went deep into some closet space that is essentially unseen unless you get down on your hands and knees. There was one snafu on my part — I selected a satin finish that I ended up not liking. I asked him to re-​do the whole house in a new semi-​gloss finish, and he happily re-​did the entire house for a price so low that I won’t mention it.
His floors probably increased our sales price by $ 50 grand. Thank you Marlon!

Marlon really met up to all these 5-​star reviews! We just purchased a house, and decided to go with Marlon after receiving 3 bids. He installed hardwood in two bedrooms, a walk-​in closet, and a flight of stairs (all previously carpet.) He also recoated our existing hardwood floors. It was a 6-​day job in total.
From the beginning, he was polite and patient with all our questions. Even though he could’ve profited more by sanding and refinishing the existing hardwood floors, he actually advised against it since he didn’t think it was worth the money — just save up and install new floors later, he recommended. He did advise refinishing a small upstairs hallway to better match the new bedroom floors, to which we readily agreed.
The work itself was very high quality. He carefully removed the existing baseboards, then replaced them afterwards. He carefully filled cracks. He cleaned up after each workday and vacuumed thoroughly at the end of the job. He explained the work and kept us abreast of progress after each day and was rightfully beaming as he showed us the finished job, being careful to leave his shoes outside before stepping onto his finished work.
Marlon came in exactly on schedule and budget, but the thing I enjoyed most about working with Marlon was the pride he took in his work. He was eager to satisfy, and I think it was important to ask questions throughout the process and be clear in our expectations, so that he could deliver successfully. He also set our expectations appropriately, noting that baseboards and step faces would need to be repainted after the job.
Someone else may’ve completed the work faster — after all his crew is just 2 people including himself. But if we ever save enough money to install those new floors, we know exactly who we’ll be calling to do the job.
Sorry so lengthy, but I hope the quality of my review matches the quality of his work!

Marlon did a fantastic job refinishing our hardwood floors. The craftsmanship and attention to detail were impeccable. Unsure of what color stain we wanted, we emailed Marlon some pictures of flooring we liked to give him a better idea. Marlon matched the finish and color exactly. In less than five days, Marlon had sanded and stained the floors. He even finished half a day ahead of schedule.
My only criticism is that our baseboards were scuffed up a bit from the floor sander and staining. We had to hire our own painter to repaint all the baseboards, something we hadn’t budgeted for. I had thought Marlon would repair the damaged baseboards, but this may have been just a misunderstanding on my part.
In any case, the ‘Early American’ satin finish looks and feels great. We are very pleased and will likely give Marlon a call when it comes time to build out our room below.

We recently bought a house, and the original oak floors were desperately in need of refinishing/​repair. A leaky roof had caused staining/​warping in many areas and there was old rotting carpet in the bedrooms. Our Real Estate Agent (Karen Cheong — SF Real Estate Solutions) recommended Marlon Romero. Marlon broke up our estimate into three phases — 1. refinish and repair existing hardwood, 2. demo and replace kitchen/​hallway tile with matching hardwood and 3. repair sub-​floor and replace carpet in basement with engineered wood. The estimate was reasonable and he was able to start and finish the first phase of the project within a week of us confirming the scope of the project.
Marlon Romero and his crew did an amazing job repairing and refinishing our hardwood floors. They replaced all of the warped wood and damaged baseboards, and sanded down all of the floors. They did such a good job matching the floor, that we had a really hard time telling what boards were replaced. Every afternoon he sent us pictures of the progress.
Marlon gave us the option of picking out three stain colors from approximately 40 options online. He put the three stain choices on the floor and let us pick our favorite stain. At the end he gave us the option of a high gloss or a satin finish. He even sent us an email that gave us tips for maintaining our newly refinished floors. We will definitely be calling Marlon again when we are ready to start phases 2 and 3.
I wish all contractors were as professional and easy to work with as Marlon Romero.

As far as experiences go, whether it be:
dining in a restaurant,
getting your hair done,
having your car worked on,
or getting your floors refinished…
I don’t know that i have EVER had an experience go as flawlessly AND have it exceed my expectations more than my experience with Marlon Romero.
I was nervous about having our hard wood floors refinished. We’ve all heard a million contractor horror stories and to be candid, this was my and my husbands first experience hiring one.
Here is why we were so impressed.
1. We called Marlon and left a voicemail; he returned our call the same day.
2. We set up a time to meet in order for him to give us a quote; he arrived early.
3. We had a general idea of what we wanted to pay; his quote was less.
4. He said he could start in 4 days; yes please!
5. He said the job (refinishing 1400 sq ft) would take 5 days; He finished in the
morning of the 5^th day.
He never missed a beat, was in constant communication with us while we were at work, and to top it off, he was incredibly nice and was extremely courteous.
Thank you so much Marlon!

Very good workmanship on a repair and refinish of a pet-​urine-​damaged hardwood floor. It has been a year and it still looks great. The work was done on schedule, the place was left clean, and the price seemed to me to be very fair. I am leaving the review today because I have another unit that needs the floors refinished and I came to Unilocal to find Marlon’s phone # and realized I had not left a review last year.

After waiting 25 years to refinish our bedroom floors, we decided to bite the bullet, and had 5 people come by to give us their estimates for the job. Marlon’s was the lowest, but what really decided it for us were the amazing Unilocal reviews, and Marlon’s very sweet and professional attitude. The job took as long as Marlon predicted, looks wonderful and my husband and I could not be more satisfied! We so appreciated how clean Marlon and his crew left our home daily– a huge improvement on the last time we tried this. Thank you Marlon!

Marlon is awesome! We found him on Unilocal and immediately felt comfortable/​trusted him as compared to other floor people we interviewed. Our gut instinct was right — he made our floors look absolutely beautiful and he was incredibly responsible, respectful, and knowledgeable about flooring. He also rolled with the punches when we asked him to replace a border in the apartment. Not to mention his prices are beyond reasonable given the quality of his work. We would highly recommend him to anyone.

Marlon did our floors last summer, approximately 1300 square feet of old oak wood (from 1909) that he made look absolutely brand new.
We interviewed 4 hardwood floor guys which we found via « Unilocal». We decided to go with Marlon because of his prompt response, great personality, what he said he could do and his flexibility to break up the job into two sections. His price was definitely competitive with the other guys. Marlon delivered on everything he said he would do and more. I would definitely recommend Marlon to do your Hardwood floors.
Vanessa