Advanced Laser Restoration

Advanced Laser Restoration Advanced Laser Restoration specializes in safe, chemical-free cleaning and restoration for woodwork, hard surfaces, and so much more.

Proudly serving Sioux Falls homes, businesses, and historic properties.

06/01/2026

There's a moment in every door restoration job where the last layer comes off and you finally see what's been hiding underneath for 80, sometimes 120 years.

That moment is music to my ears.

When I studied woodworking, it was the raw power of the wood that pulled me in.

The grain. The history. The way a single board can tell you what kind of life it's lived if you know how to listen.

Now it's the raw power of laser technology that pulls me in — because it lets me strip a door back to its original, intended surface without dumping a single ounce of toxic chemical on it.

No methylene chloride. No lead dust. No solvent runoff seeping into somebody's yard. Just light, doing the work the right way.

And then there's the reveal.

The look on a homeowner's face when the layers are gone and the wood is breathing for the first time in a generation. The way they go quiet for a second. (Yes — I'm used to people staring.)

That's why I do this.

The raw beauty coming through. The fact that what I'm doing matters — for the environment, and for the family that trusted us with a piece of their home.

The fact that my partners over at Ryan's Painting get to put a healthy coat on a surface that's actually prepped right, the first time.

Man. That's everything.

05/29/2026

No burning. No residue. No grit.

Watch what stubborn buildup looks like when you stop fighting it.

This is industrial laser cleaning. Carbon, oxidation, thick buildup that usually gives a little grief — off in seconds. Clean to the metal. No abrasive media. No chemicals. No damage to what's underneath.

Got one done. Seven to go.

If your shop is still soaking, sanding, or blasting parts that don't have to be — we should talk.

We'll show you the difference on one, you'll line the rest up forever. DM me.

Most "restoration" is really replacement — new coatings, new patches, new stuff over old stuff.What we do is different. ...
05/28/2026

Most "restoration" is really replacement — new coatings, new patches, new stuff over old stuff.

What we do is different. Our laser surfaces the existing material. The brick from 1912. The wood from the original build. The metal that's lasted a hundred years. We just remove what doesn't belong.

That's the difference between revealing and restoring. And it shows.

Learn more → https://www.alrsiouxfalls.com

05/27/2026

Check this out. Eight doors today. Tomorrow they head out to a job outside of Tea with Ryan's Painting.

This keeps happening lately, and I still don't fully know what to make of it. People are handing me stuff that matters to them — old doors, old wood, pieces with real history in them — and trusting me to bring it back. That's not a small thing. I don't treat it like one.

I'm not really restoring these doors, though. The original wood was under all that paint the whole time. I'm just getting everything else out of the way so you can see it again.

Yeah, the attention's nice. But that's not the part I'm in this for, and it's not why I got into it. I'm a woodworker. An artist, if I'm being straight about it. The laser's just the best tool I've found to do right by the material.

I choose to do things different. Looks like more and more of you do too.

Hit me up.

05/22/2026

Screwdrivers. Chisels. Wire brushes. Cleaning solution.

Four years. Every quarter. Hours on his knees.
Still never got it this clean.

Let that sink in.

Every tool in the shop. Every chemical on the shelf. Every hour he burned doing it the way he's always done it — and not once did it look like the day it came off the floor new.

Twenty minutes with a laser. Looks brand new.

Nobody's telling you this exists. Nobody's showing you there's a better way. You just keep buying the same brushes and burning the same weekends because that's how it's always been done.

That ends now.

Sioux Falls and the surrounding area.

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Sioux Falls, you voted — and we're floored.ALR has been named the #1 Overall Home Services Company, Sioux Falls, for th...
05/20/2026

Sioux Falls, you voted — and we're floored.

ALR has been named the #1 Overall Home Services Company, Sioux Falls, for the 2026 Directory Awards.

Thank you.

To every customer who let us into your driveway, your shop, your historic property — this one's yours as much as it is ours.

We'll keep showing up. Chemical-free. Damage-free. Reveal-first.

Learn more → https://www.alrsiouxfalls.com/

05/19/2026

Yeah—laser cleaning handles graffiti, and honestly, it's not even close to how most people deal with it.

The traditional playbook is short. You paint over it (usually with the closest shade of gray someone can find at the hardware store, which is never actually the right gray). You pressure wash it (which can drive the pigment deeper into porous brick and chew up the mortar on the way). Or you hit it with chemical st*****rs (which are nasty, can stain, and tend to leave residue that bleeds back through for months).

Drive around Sioux Falls and you'll see option #1 everywhere. Somebody tags a wall, and the fix is a fresh coat of sadness-gray. Now the wall has two problems—the original tag, plus a patchwork quilt of mismatched paint that somehow looks worse than the graffiti did.

What I'm doing is fundamentally different. I'm not covering anything up. I'm not soaking the wall in chemicals. I'm not blasting the surface apart.

I'm using controlled light, tuned specifically for the pigment sitting on top of the brick or stone, to lift the graffiti off while the original texture stays exactly the way it was built. That's the whole point. A brick wall should look like a brick wall, not a repainted bandaid.

And here's the part that matters long-term: it's repeatable. If the wall gets tagged again next month, you're not stacking another layer of paint or another round of chemicals on top of what's already there. You just clean it back to itself.

That's the difference. Most people restore by hiding. I restore by revealing.

05/15/2026

The most common thing I hear on a job site.

"Well, OK then… what ELSE can you do this on?"

Every time. People just start looking around. Their brain starts running.

Sticker residue on cabinets — gone. Old adhesive — gone. Wallpaper glue — gone.

Things you've just accepted as permanent problems because you didn't know there was another option.

That's the thing about laser cleaning. Once you see it work on one thing, you can't stop thinking about the next thing.

What's been sitting on your list? Drop it in the comments. I'll tell you if we can hit it.

Photos recommended. I’ll take a look and hit you in the DM’s.

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05/14/2026

Non-toxic. The Sound of Speed. Pure precision.
When the mask comes on and that sound hits… everything else disappears.

That’s when my focus starts.
That’s when the world quiets down a bit.
That’s my happy place.

05/11/2026

Gummy finish. Thick wax and oil buildup. The stuff that fights back.

I've run into it before. It slows things down — not because the laser can't handle it, but because the wax and oil prevent the residue from drying out the way it needs to. You work with it. You adjust.

Still faster than anything else you're going to throw at it.

The face plate came off quickly. The buildup cleared. The owner was happy. I was happy. That's the job.

If you've got a surface with layers — grease, wax, carbon, old finish — don't assume it's too far gone. Bring it to me first.

Sioux Falls and the surrounding area.

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