Dustless Floor Removal & Concrete Grinding

Why Alberta Homeowners and Contractors Choose Enviro Surface Removers

Floor removal used to be a dirty, dusty job that slowed a project down and left grit in the house for months. That is no longer how it has to be done. Enviro Surface Removers has spent 20 years in the trade, 16 of them as Enviro since 2008, doing one thing: taking old flooring and surfaces out cleanly, capturing the dust at the tool, and leaving a subfloor that is ready for the next trade. This is what we do all day, every day, for homeowners and contractors across Calgary, Edmonton, and the communities around them.

We Remove Floors. We Don't Install Them.

Most companies that offer floor removal in Alberta are installers first. Removal is how they get in the door for the installation job that follows. That gives them a reason to recommend tearing a floor out.

No Installation Riding on the Answer

We don’t install flooring. We remove it. That is the whole business. It means our advice about what should come out, and what is worth keeping, has nothing riding on it but the condition of the floor in front of us. If your hardwood is sound and worth refinishing, we will tell you, because we make nothing either way.

When the removal is done, we hand a clean, measured subfloor to whoever installs the new floor.

Dust Is a Health Hazard, and We Treat It Like One

The dust from floor removal is not just a mess to clean up.

Cutting and grinding thinset, grout, and concrete releases crystalline silica, classified by the International Agency for Research on Cancer as a Group 1 carcinogen
Long exposure is linked to silicosis and other serious lung disease
Flooring installed before the early 1990s can also contain asbestos

Source Capture, Not Cleanup Afterward

We capture dust at the source. Our tools pull dust into a HEPA system at the point it is created, before it goes airborne, rather than sealing off a room and letting it settle.

Alberta’s Occupational Health and Safety Code requires employers to control this kind of dust on the job, and Health Canada is clear that disturbing asbestos-containing material without proper handling is where the risk comes from. We work to those standards because the health of the people in the house, and our own crew, depends on it.

Certified, Insured, and Audited

We back the work with credentials you can check:

✓ 20 years in the trade, 16+ as Enviro Surface Removers since 2008

✓ COR Certified — our safety program is independently audited by the province

✓ Full WCB coverage on every crew member

✓ $5 million in liability insurance

✓ BBB Accredited

Asbestos, Handled Under One Roof

Certified for asbestos testing and abatement, handled in-house from sample testing through full removal when it is needed, not passed to a second company partway through the job. That matters on older Alberta homes. When a floor is old enough to raise an asbestos question, we can test it, and if it is present, remove it properly, under one roof.

Contractors Get a Floor That's Ready to Work On

Contractors call us because a clean removal saves them the part of the job they least want to do. We show up and:

Take the old surface down to a sound subfloor
Capture the dust
Haul the debris away in our own trailer
Leave a surface that’s ready for the new floor to go down

No Bin to Rent. No Grit to Deal With.

The crew coming in next can start their own work instead of finishing ours. That is time back in the week. It is also cleaner sites, happier customers, and better reviews for the contractor whose name is on the job.

We Tell You What's Coming Before It Costs You

A floor is rarely just one layer. Older Alberta homes stack coverings, and what is underneath changes the job. We count the layers and check what needs checking before we quote, so the number we give you holds.

If a job turns up any of the following, you hear about it before the work starts, not partway through when it’s already a surprise on the invoice:

Asbestos
Water damage
A subfloor problem

Get Your Floor Removal Quoted by a Specialist

Tell us what is down now and what you are planning. We will come see the space and give you a free quote.

Calgary 403-874-3000 · Edmonton 780-977-2444