This existing Red Oak Floor in Iowa City presented some interesting challenges. To begin with the floor had many areas where pieces of plywood were "patched in" to cover old cold air returns, register vents, and places where walls used to be. Top Shelf is highly skilled in "lacing-in" new wood flooring in these areas to provide a seamless and almost unrecognizable patch. There are three of these Laced-in Patches in the Photo above. This floor was not 3/4" like most of the floors found in older homes but 3/8" thick. This was tricky on two levels. Finding the material for the patches required some investigative effort but thanks to our good friends at HILL HARDWOOD in Iowa City we found it and it worked perfectly. But also, was there enough floor thickness left after 60 + years to sand and re-finish. Top Shelf is your Iowa City specialist in older home renovation and restoration and can professionally identify whether a floor has life left in it. Where other floor companies suggested a full tear-out and new flooring you can see that Top Shelf resurrected this existing floor and brought it back to it's original beauty.