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Having a new wood floor installed in your house is one of the most dynamic upgrades you can make. Wood flooring is easy to clean, easy to maintain, repairable, can be resurfaced, and best of all has a natural depth and beauty that other types of flooring cannot give. We believe wood is the noblest of materials, and it shows in our work. We follow the NWFA's strict guidelines for every new wood floor, ensuring a trouble free, long lasting installation.

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What to expect

...when having a wood floor installed

Wood flooring must acclimate to the living conditions specific to the rooms where it will be installed. The moisture content between the wood flooring and the subfloor must be close enough to avoid cupping or gaps.

Believe it or not, cutting wood with a saw produces more airborne dust than sanding a wood floor, so we do all of our cutting outside to ensure that dust never becomes a problem during installation.

Any "hammer and saw man" can slap down a wood floor. It takes a true expert to layout, start and install a wood floor properly. The exact position of those first rows will determine the appearance of the wood floor around fireplaces, thresholds, bullnoses, etc.. Painstaking layout can make the difference between an amateur job and a professional installation.

These are some common mistakes made on installations that we avoid. Hardwood is the only type of flooring that actually adds strength and rigidity to joist floor systems, and improper head joint placement causes weak areas in the floor.

The placement of the head joints should appear to be as random as possible with no repeating patterns. In general, head joints should be at least 6" apart, depending on the width of the flooring.