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Walkthrough Before We Start
Pre 1930 houses near South Church often hide a sagging joist or a soft patch of subfloor, so the lead installer checks every room with a level and a moisture meter and lists each threshold before the estimate is written.
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Hardwood Floor Installation in Andover, MA
$2.25/Sq Ft labor, nails and underlayment included. Written price before we start.
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Hardwood Floor Installation Cost
An Andover homeowner pays $2.25/Sq Ft to have solid oak nailed down, and that labor figure already carries the cleats and the underlayment. A brick colonial in Shawsheen Village is billed exactly like a split level out by Haggetts Pond.
Nail Down Installation
Raw red or white oak, cleated to plywood for $2.25/Sq Ft and finished on site, belongs in a Shawsheen Village center entrance colonial where a sanded in place floor erases every joint.
$2.25
/Sq Ft
What’s Included:
Underlayment Included
Nails Supplied
Professional Installation
Nail and Glue Down
Wide prefinished boards are cleated and glued for $2.50/Sq Ft plus the adhesive, which keeps them from cupping in a muggy Merrimack Valley August, and the family is back in the room by supper.
$2.50
/Sq Ft
What’s Included:
Nails Supplied
Glue Billed Separately
Professional Installation
Floating Floor
Engineered oak floated over underlayment at $2.00/Sq Ft is the right call for the slab under a lower level near Haggetts Pond, with no fastener touching the concrete.
$2.00
/Sq Ft
What’s Included:
Joint Glue Supplied
Underlayment Included
Professional Installation
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Licensed, Insured Installation
The installer kneeling on your subfloor is a Brazil Floors employee, licensed, insured and NWFA certified. We never hand an Andover job to a subcontractor.
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Remeasure and Material Count
On the morning of the install the rooms are measured a second time, the cartons are tallied against the plan, reducers are set at every doorway and a chalk line fixes the first row square to the longest wall.
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One Year Install Warranty
If anything in our workmanship fails inside a year, we return and correct it. The oak itself remains under the warranty written by the mill that produced it.
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Hardwood Floor Patterns
Six layouts are on the menu in Andover: a straight run, diagonal, herringbone, chevron, parquet squares and basket weave. Older homes around South Church lean toward herringbone, while the newer construction off Route 125 wants long straight boards.
Straight Lay Hardwood
Boards running with the longest wall waste the least material and make a narrow Shawsheen Village living room feel longer.
Herringbone Hardwood
Short planks meeting at right angles form a herringbone that suits a formal dining room in an Andover colonial.
Chevron Hardwood
Chevron planks are mitered to meet in a V, a bold pattern for an open kitchen in a newer home near Haggetts Pond.
Diagonal Hardwood
A diagonal run draws the eye across a room and disguises walls that drifted out of square in an old farmhouse by Roger's Brook.
Checkerboard Parquet
Parquet squares turned grain against grain make a tidy grid for a study in one of the Victorians near the common.
Basket Weave Parquet
Basket weave alternates pairs of short strips, often inside a walnut border, for a library or front hall in an Andover estate home.
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Hardwood Floor Installers in Andover
The crew leaves 9 Cochituate St in Natick, reaches Andover in under an hour and stays until the last threshold is tapped home. Here the carpet went to the dumpster, the plywood got screwed quiet, underlayment covered it and white oak was cleated row by row with a baseboard gap for summer swelling.
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Flooring Services in Andover
Hardwood is the headline, but the same installers float vinyl plank in a Merrimack River basement, lay laminate in a bonus room, resand a dull hallway, replace a split board or rebuild a worn staircase.
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Hardwood Floor Installation FAQ
Three things settle an Andover booking: the price, the calendar and which rooms need emptying. All three are covered below.
Get your Free In-Home EstimateWhat is the price to install hardwood floors in Andover?
Nail down labor is $2.25/Sq Ft, with the cleats and underlayment inside that number. Oak from our Natick warehouse brings the unfinished package to $5.50/Sq Ft and prefinished to $6.00/Sq Ft, installed.
Our Shawsheen Village house is from the 1920s. Can you nail over the original subfloor?
Usually yes. Loose boards get screwed down, badly gapped areas get a layer of plywood, and the new oak runs across the old boards so each strip is fastened solidly.
Do you install over radiant heat?
Yes, with engineered planks floated or glued rather than nailed, so no fastener reaches the tubing. The system runs for several days before we start to settle the slab's moisture.
How long does the oak sit in the house before you nail it?
Solid planks need a few days indoors to match the humidity of a Merrimack Valley home. Engineered flooring is less fussy and can usually go in the day after delivery.
When will the boxes be delivered?
The day after you order. Our trucks roll out of Natick each morning and are up Route 93 to Andover before lunch.
Can your crew handle the furniture and the old carpet?
Yes to both. Furniture out and back is a flat $250, and carpet or tile tear out runs about $1.00/Sq Ft with the debris hauled off by us.
When do I pay for the floor?
Material is paid when the cartons are carried in, labor on the morning the installers start. Holding a date costs nothing.
What guarantee comes with the work?
Twelve months on our labor, plus the mill's warranty on the oak. The people installing it are on our payroll and hold a license, insurance and NWFA certification.
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Hardwood Floors in Nearby Towns
North Andover, Lawrence, Methuen, Tewksbury and North Reading sit on the same route as Andover, and our nailers charge them the identical per foot labor rate.
Around the Old Center in North Andover, solid oak is cleated to plywood for $2.25/Sq Ft, and the fasteners and underlayment ride in that labor rate.
Lawrence two families near the Merrimack go with prefinished oak, $6.00/Sq Ft with the material, and walk on it the same night.
Lower levels in Methuen rest on slabs, so engineered oak is floated there for $2.00/Sq Ft of labor with glue in the joints.
Tewksbury capes take unfinished oak at $5.50/Sq Ft with material, then a site sanding and finish that erases every seam.
Newer North Reading homes want wide boards cleated and glued for $2.50/Sq Ft, adhesive extra, so long planks stay flat through the seasons.
