Best Home Services in Sioux Falls 2026

#1 — Advanced Laser Restoration

You will see his Mercedes Sprinter van before you see him. Green — that very specific deep, saturated green that people start to recognize after the third time they spot it at a stoplight, no graphics shouting at the world, just the color doing the work. Alex is not a guy who needs the side of his vehicle to do the marketing. The van is the marketing because of what's inside it: a fiber laser system that, with the carrying capacity and the calibrated rig, is worth roughly twice what the van itself is worth. Round numbers — a hundred grand for the laser, another hundred plus for the van.

What Alex does is laser ablation across three of the most common substrates, among many others — furniture and wood, industrial equipment, graffiti and masonry. Different wavelengths, different settings, different jobs. Same tool. We've broken his work into three parts below because the use cases are different enough that grouping them as "laser cleaning" sells the breadth short.

Part 1 of 3 · Furniture & Wood Surfaces

The first piece of antique walnut Alex worked on for me was a 1908 sideboard whose family had owned it since before South Dakota was a state. The varnish on it was older than my grandfather. Alex pointed the laser, calibrated for fibrous substrate, and lifted the layer off without — and this is the part nobody believes until they watch it happen — touching the wood underneath.

That's furniture-grade laser cleaning. Wood, leather, painted antique pieces, anything where the value is in the surface you're trying to preserve. Sandpaper jobs ruin it. Chemical jobs warp it. The laser dissolves only the contaminant. Technically: the wavelength gets absorbed by carbon, varnish, oil — anything dark and deposited — but skips the wood underneath. Wood doesn't absorb the wavelength he uses; the varnish on top does.

Use cases that find their way to him: antique sideboards, family heirloom pieces, chairs with ten coats of paint that can't be stripped without losing the carving, restored woodwork from period homes, wood doors with old finishes that are too valuable to replace and too damaged to leave. If the sentence "we'd rather not start over" describes the job, this is the call.

Part 2 of 3 · Industrial Equipment

The Breaks Coffee Roasting on East 8th Street had a forty-year-old commercial coffee roaster with the kind of patina you only get from ten thousand high-heat batches. Carbon. Caramelized sugar. Oil residue. Traditionally you'd address that with a wire brush, a chisel, two people, a weekend, and a quart of solvent that smells like a hospital.

Alex did it solo. Eight minutes of beam time. No chemicals. The video below is the whole argument — eight and a half minutes, real-time, no tricks.

The substrate Alex calls "the cast kind" — metal, manufacturing equipment, food and beverage gear, anything industrial where the goal is "back to bare." The rules differ from wood: cast metal absorbs the wavelength differently, oils collect in grooves and imperfections that brushes can't reach, and the value is usually in not taking the equipment offline for a full day. Eight minutes of beam time means a coffee roaster comes back online before the next roast. A manufacturing line doesn't lose a shift. The line cooks at a restaurant don't have to cook around a maintenance crew during service.

Other use cases: fire-damage restoration on structural steel where the soot has to come off but the metal stays. Industrial mold cleaning in food-and-beverage facilities where chemical solvents are a regulatory non-starter. Manufacturing equipment where the substrate is more expensive than the building.

Part 3 of 3 · Graffiti & Concrete Surfaces

Graffiti on brick is the substrate everybody else hates. Painters can't paint over it without losing the underlying brick character. Sandblasters scar the surface. Chemical removers leave shadows. The brick keeps a memory of whatever was on it, and the property owner ends up with a building that's slightly worse than before.

Alex points the laser at it, tuned for masonry and aggregate, and it lifts. This is the use case that sells itself once people see it. Property managers, restaurant owners, downtown business operators dealing with persistent overnight tagging — everybody wants the building to look the way it did before, not the way it looks after a paint-over. Same applies to concrete: parking structures, sidewalks, garages, anywhere a surface is high-traffic and hates chemicals.

If you've ever paid to have graffiti removed and paid again three weeks later, this is the conversation that ends that cycle.