Full refinish
Sanded back to bare wood, stained to the colour you choose, and built back up in fresh coats. This is the one that turns a tired, grey, forty-year-old floor into the best surface in the house.
For worn, scratched or dated floors
Absolutely Dust Free · Utah County
Beautiful floors.Without the dust.
Sanding a hardwood floor normally coats every room you own in fine dust that shows up for months. It does not have to. Shaun Humphreys has been refinishing Utah County floors on containment equipment for over 20 years — the dust goes in the machine, not on your baseboards.
Or text a photo of your floor — Shaun answers his own phone, and he will tell you straight whether it needs a full refinish or just a recoat.
20+Years finishing floors
1Craftsman on your job
$0For an estimate
UTCounty-wide service
Stain going down over a dust-free sand
Why the name
ADF stands for
Absolutely Dust Free.
It is not a slogan bolted onto a flooring company. It is the reason this company exists, and it is the part homeowners actually care about once they have lived through the alternative.
- Dust collected at the cutSanders and edgers run onto containment equipment, so the dust is captured where it is made instead of drifting through the house and settling for weeks afterward.
- Your kitchen stays a kitchenNo plastic sheeting over every cupboard, no sealing off half the house, no wiping grit off dishes and picture frames for the next month.
- A cleaner finish, not just a cleaner houseAirborne dust that lands in wet finish is what causes gritty, cloudy floors. Taking the dust out of the air is how the coat ends up smooth.
- Easier on the people in the houseMatters more than most people expect if anyone at home has asthma, allergies, or small children crawling on the floor.
What Shaun does
Six things, done properly.
No showroom, no sales team, no subcontracted crews. Hardwood floors are the whole business — which is why the hard jobs come here.
Board repair & lacing
Damaged boards cut out and new ones woven into the existing run, so the patch disappears into the floor instead of announcing itself. Water damage, pet damage, subfloor problems, transitions.
For damage in an otherwise good floor
Screen & recoat
If the finish is worn but the wood underneath is sound, you do not need a full sand. A screen and fresh coat brings the floor back for a fraction of the cost — and it is the cheapest way to make a floor last decades.
The maintenance most floors never get
Insurance claim work
Burst pipe, dishwasher leak, ice dam. Documented properly for the adjuster, scoped honestly, and repaired or replaced to match what was there before.
For water, pet and accident damage
Free estimates
Shaun comes out, looks at the actual floor, and tells you what it needs — including when it needs less than you thought. No charge and no obligation to book anything.
Utah County, no cost
New installs & stairs
Stair treads, risers and new hardwood installation, finished on site to match the floors they meet. Ask when Shaun is out for the estimate.
Ask during your estimate
What actually happens
The process.
Every floor is different, and Shaun gives you real timing at the estimate. This is the order the work happens in, so you know what you are agreeing to.
Walk & quote
Shaun looks at the wood, the wear, the sub-floor and the transitions, then tells you whether you need a full refinish or just a recoat. Written price before anything starts.
Prep & repair
Furniture out, damaged boards cut out and laced in, nail holes and gaps addressed. The repairs happen before the sanding so everything finishes as one floor.
Dust-free sand
Rough through fine passes on containment equipment, edges and corners cut in by hand. This is the stage that would normally fill your house with dust. It doesn't.
Stain & coat
Colour applied and checked in your light, not a showroom's, then finish coats built up with cure time between. Shaun tells you when you can walk on it and when furniture can come back.
Our work
Utah County floors,
start to finish.
Real jobs, photographed on site — including the ugly middle stages most flooring companies crop out.
Every floor on this page is Shaun’s own work in Utah County homes. No stock photography, no other company’s portfolio.
Carpet pulled off, treads stripped, then hickory finished on site against white risers. Drag to compare
Absolutely Dust Free
Three letters, one promise. The dust goes in the machine, not on your baseboards — and it has worked that way on every floor Shaun has finished for over twenty years.
No cost, no obligation
Not sure what your floor needs?
Send a photo and Shaun will tell you whether it is a refinish, a repair or just a recoat — before anybody books anything. Estimates are free anywhere in Utah County.
Water, pet and accident damage
Insurance claims.
Shaun handles claim work directly with your adjuster. Whether the claim covers a repair or a full replacement usually comes down to how the damage gets documented in the first week.
- Documented for the adjuster. Photographs, moisture readings and a written scope your insurer can actually work from.
- Scoped honestly. If four boards will fix it, the estimate says four boards. If the floor is gone, that gets said plainly too.
- Matched to what was there. Species, width, grade and colour matched into the existing floor wherever the claim allows repair.
- Worked directly with your carrier. Shaun deals with adjusters regularly and will talk to yours so you are not relaying messages.
Who shows up
You get Shaun.
Absolutely Dust Free is a one-man business, and that is deliberate. The person who quotes your floor is the person who sands it, stains it and coats it — so nothing gets lost between the salesman and the crew, and there is nobody to blame if it is not right.
Shaun Humphreys has been finishing hardwood in Utah County for over twenty years. In that time the equipment has got better, the finishes have got tougher, and the standard for what counts as a clean job site has moved a long way — which is exactly why the dust containment matters. The floors in these photographs are all his own work.
If you are deciding between refinishing what you have and tearing it out, ask him. There is a fair amount of hardwood in this county that gets replaced when it only needed a recoat.
Shaun HumphreysOwner & craftsman · Orem, Utah
Before you call
The questions
everybody asks.
Straight answers, including the ones that talk you into a cheaper job than you were expecting.
Do we have to move out while you work?
Usually not. What you do have to do is stay off the floor being coated — in practice that means the room is out of use for the day it is coated and overnight while it sets, and pets have to be kept off it. Most people stay in the house and work around one area at a time. If the whole main floor is going down at once, plan on being elsewhere for the coating days.
How long does a refinish take?
A typical main floor runs a few working days from the first sand to the final coat, plus curing time after that. Square footage, how much board repair the floor needs, and whether you are changing the stain colour all move the number. Shaun gives you a real schedule when he has seen the floor — not a guess over the phone.
How dust-free is “absolutely dust free”, really?
The honest answer: the sanders and edgers run onto containment equipment, so the dust is captured at the machine where it is made instead of being turned loose in the house. It is not a sealed clean room — nothing is. But you will not spend the next month wiping grit off dishes, picture frames and the tops of the doors, which is exactly what a conventional sand leaves behind.
Does my floor need refinishing, or just a recoat?
If the finish is worn but the wood underneath is sound and unmarked, a screen and recoat is usually enough — and it costs a fraction of a full sand. If there is greying, scratching down into the wood, water marking or pet damage, the floor has to come back to bare wood.
Shaun will tell you which one you are looking at, including the times the answer is the cheaper one.
What does it cost?
Refinishing is priced on square footage and on the condition of the floor, so there is no honest per-foot number to print on a website — the same room can be a recoat or a full sand depending on what the finish has been through, and those are very different jobs.
The estimate is free, it happens at your house, and it is based on the actual floor.
When can we walk on it and move the furniture back?
In order: light traffic in socks first, then furniture, then rugs last — rugs trap solvent and can mark a finish that has not finished curing. The exact waiting times depend on the finish being used on your floor, and Shaun gives you those numbers before he leaves rather than making you guess.
Can a repair be matched into an existing floor?
Often, yes. Damaged boards are cut out and new ones woven into the existing run — laced in — so the repair reads as floor rather than as a patch, then the area is sanded and finished to match. Species, board width and grade all affect how invisible it ends up, so it is a look-at-it question rather than a phone question.
Do you work with insurance companies?
Regularly — burst pipes, dishwasher leaks, ice dams, pet damage. Shaun documents the damage for the adjuster, scopes it honestly, and deals with your carrier directly so you are not relaying messages between two people who both know more about the subject than you do. More on claim work →
Still not answered? Call 801.404.9857 or send a text — you will get Shaun, not a call centre.
Free estimate
Tell Shaun about your floor.
Estimates are free anywhere in Utah County. The more you can say about the floor — rough age, square footage, what is wrong with it — the more useful the first conversation is.
- You send it. Form, call or a photo by text — whichever is least effort for you.
- Shaun gets back to you personally. There is no office and no call centre, so the person who replies is the person who does the work.
- He looks at the floor. Free, at your house, anywhere in Utah County — with a written price and a schedule at the end of it.
- Call Shaun801.404.9857
- Text a photo of the floor801.404.9857
- Emailhishaunhumphreys@gmail.com
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Based in1516 N. Main St., Orem, UT 84057
Request a free estimate
Takes about a minute. No obligation to book anything.
Your details go straight to Shaun and are used to quote your floor — nothing else. Prefer not to fill in a form? Call or text 801.404.9857.