SGN Hardwood Floors

SGN Hardwood Floors is a small Revere outfit run by Sang Nguyen out of 5 Gloves Drive, doing one thing: sanding and refinishing hardwood floors for homeowners around Greater Boston. The company says it has been at it more than fifteen years, and Thumbtack has run a background check on Nguyen himself. What people who hired them say is unusually consistent for a trade where consistency is rare. Across fourteen written accounts spanning 2020 to 2026, the same three things recur: he turns up when he said he would, the job moves fast, and the finish looks better than expected. A homeowner in March 2026 described him refinishing old floors and adding baseboard molding, showing up on time and cleaning up thoroughly. In a May 2025 review another described Bona HD applied to kitchen and bedroom floors. Reviewers repeatedly name Sang personally rather than a crew, which fits a four-person shop where the owner is on the job. Dust is the thing to ask about, because the record genuinely disagrees with itself. A February 2024 customer said he kept dust well contained, and a July 2022 customer called it a mess-free project — but a September 2022 customer who paid $1,550 wrote only this: it smells and there is a lot of dust to clean after, so be prepared. That reviewer still gave five stars, which suggests a warning about the process rather than a complaint about the work, but it is worth asking directly what containment and clean-up are included before booking. One caution on volume: the Angi and HomeAdvisor listings share a profile id and publish the identical nine reviews, so what can look like eighteen endorsements is nine. The genuinely independent depth is on Thumbtack, where seventy hires are recorded. Most of the written record is also ageing — five accounts predate 2021 — and only one review has landed in the last six months, which is why the rating sits below where a run of five-star pages alone would put it. For a straightforward refinishing job on the North Shore or in Boston's inner suburbs, this is a specialist with a long and unusually uniform track record. Confirm the dust-control approach and get the square-footage price in writing.