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Date: Wed, 14 Nov 90 16:46:53 -0500 (EST)
From: Robert.Sansom@CS.CMU.EDU
To: Harry.Bovik@CS.CMU.EDU
Subject: Wood floor refinishing

Dear Harry,
  here are some recommendations about wood floor refinishing.  We ended
up using Nelson Jones and were pretty happy with him (reasonable quote,
reasonable job).  We decided not to use Wood Floor Specialists becuase
we felt that they had got too big (Nelson Jones is still a "one-man
show").  We never met the boss (Greg Ambrose) of Wood Floor Specialists;
the only people who came to our house were salesmen; and their quote was
high.

Here are other people's recommendations:

Excerpts from houses: 17-Jun-90 Re: Floor refinishing
Thomas.Gross@IUS3.IUS.CS (130)

>Greg Ambrose of the Wood Floor Specialist.  There are also other
>recommendations for them, I can dig out the phone if needed.

Excerpts from houses: 18-Jun-90 Re: Wood floor refinishing
Angela.Hickman@ML.RI.CMU (503)

>I can NOT recommend Wood Floor Specialists (Greg Ambrose).  He came out
>to do the estimate but sent some kid who did a terrible job to our
>house in Mt. Lebanon.
>He stained the floors a color that did not match when
>I had explicitly asked him to call me so I could approve the color
>match.  In addition, the sanding job left lines on the floor.
>When Greg came out at my request, he offered to use an overcoat of
>colored poly, but would not redo the job.
>				Hope it saves you a few headaches,
>				Angela

Excerpts from houses: 15-Jun-90 Re: Wood floor refinishing Janet
Cohen@ANDREW.CMU.E (1062)

>Here's my 2 cents.  We had our floors refinished by Greg Ambrose,
>also now known as Wood Floor Specialists.  We were and still are
>VERY pleased with the job he did.  Since our job, we know of 3 people
>who have used him and were also very happy with the job.  2 of those 3
>people had their floors done by other people and were so
>unhappy they had Ambrose redo them - 1 within a year, the other
>within 2 years of the original job.  Shadyside Wood -one of the bad
jobs,
>now seems to either not exist or has moved and renamed to Wood Floors. 
I
>really don't know if they're the same people, but if so, I'd
>avoid them.  Meanwhile, I'll call someone who had the floors
>redone, to get the real names of the originals.
>Our floors are a medium color, the kind used by the average dull
>person.  Come check out my neighbor's floors to see a color I
>wish I had chosen.

>Just found out one of the bad jobs was done by Johnson Floors.

>PS - Ambrose was the lowest estimate we had at the time.  Since
>then, he's gotten more popular, and his prices have been less
>competitive.

Excerpts from houses: 15-Jun-90 Re: Wood floor refinishing Janet
Cohen@ANDREW.CMU.E (85)

>The name of the refinishers that did the other bad job
>was Wood Floors of Shadyside.