The voting is in, and the ugliest floor in northeast Wisconsin is…

Rod Lorenz

Sara_Dorn-McGuire_WinnerRalph’s Hardwoods Floors recently held a contest on Facebook to find the “Ugliest Floor” in northeast Wisconsin. The prize was a free refinishing of the floor!

The contest has ended, and after a heated race, the winner is Sara Dorn-McGuire, whose engineered oak floor’s finish was in really bad shape. She received 1,930 votes from Facebook users, outpacing the runner-up’s 1,780 votes.

We’ll be sanding and refinishing the floors in Sara’s kitchen, dining room, hallway, and foyer—338 square feet in all—at no cost to Sara.

Winner-Dinette_FloorWe recently visited Sara’s home to make sure there was enough wear layer (i.e., sandable wood) on the engineered flooring to sand. Some engineered floors don’t have enough, but fortunately Sara’s do.

It was clear, though, that Sara’s floors were in desperate need of new finish—the old finish was virtually gone.

“We built our home in 1997, and we’ve had dogs and our three kids grew up on them, so they are just beat,” Sara told us.

Sara_Dorn-McGuire_Winner_floor_closeupSara said she first started thinking about refinishing the floors about a year ago. Her husband is a handy guy and has done home projects before, so her original idea was that he would do it himself. But he never quite got around to it.

So when Sara heard about our contest, she figured, why not enter?

“I took pictures of the floor and put it on Facebook and just shared it with friends and family,” Sara said. “They supported me and shared it on their wall. People just began voting and sharing it with other people.”

Winner_-_Kitchen_Floor

In Sara’s case, winning the free refinishing isn’t about saving money.

“It saved my husband a lot of work,” she laughed.

We’ll be refinishing the floors in the few weeks, and Sara is eagerly awaiting the new look for her home.

 “I know Ralph’s has an excellent reputation, so I’m sure they’re going to be beautiful,” she said.

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