The nightmare of any restorer is over-sanding. "One more pass and you lose the carved detail." With laser, that fear disappears.
The End of Chemical Strippers
Until now, to remove old varnish you had two bad options: sanding (losing material) or using caustic chemicals (damaging wood fibers and your health). Laser offers a third way.
How Does It Work on Wood?
Wood is a complex organic material. Our pulsed lasers are tuned so that the wavelength is absorbed by the varnish, paint, or mold, but reflected by healthy wood cellulose.
Ideal Applications
- Carved Entrance Doors: We clean the deepest crevices where sandpaper can't reach.
- Teak and Ipe Decks: We remove the gray layer (oxidation) without reducing board thickness.
- Ceiling Beams: Cleaning exposed beams without dirtying the whole house (thanks to our fume extraction systems).
See the Difference
We recently restored a 1920 mahogany door in Coral Gables. The client cried upon seeing floral details that had been hidden under 10 layers of paint for 50 years.