Walkthrough Before We Start
On day zero our lead jumps on the subfloor, hunts down every creak with his heel and chalks arrows showing how the oak will march across each room.
On day zero our lead jumps on the subfloor, hunts down every creak with his heel and chalks arrows showing how the oak will march across each room.
No day labor here. Whoever runs the nailer in your hallway is a Brazil Floors employee, NWFA certified, with a license and insurance papers on file.
Rooms are taped at the walkthrough and taped again before the first nail, which keeps the wood count, reducers and shoe molding from coming up short.
Twelve months of labor coverage kick in once our crew packs up, separate from what the lumber mill promises on its oak.

Planks marching parallel to the longest wall look tidy and waste the least wood at the ends.

Zigzagging rectangles locked at right angles make a front foyer feel tailored.

Mitered tips meet dead center, and the arrows they form lead you down the hall.

Run on a slant, the rows fool the eye into reading a narrow sunroom as wider, and crooked walls fade from notice.

Tiles of short oak pieces swap grain direction square by square, a look straight out of grandma's dining room.

Doubled strips turn ninety degrees every square, the floor equivalent of a hand woven picnic hamper.



Labor alone is $2.25/Sq Ft cleated, $2.50/Sq Ft glued and cleated, $2.00/Sq Ft floating. Using our wood, unfinished oak is $5.50/Sq Ft with install and prefinished oak $6.00/Sq Ft.
Yes, at roughly $1.00/Sq Ft. Everything we pull up leaves in our truck the same day, so the curb out front stays clear for the trash pickup.
Wide planks show off more grain and look calmer in big rooms, but they move more with humidity, which is why we glue as well as nail them for $2.50/Sq Ft.
Solid oak shouldn't, since concrete holds moisture. Engineered planks floating above foam and plastic sheeting are the right answer down there, at $2.00/Sq Ft.
It can be. Pay $250 and the heavy stuff, sofas, beds and dressers, gets carried to another room and set back in place once the last plank is down.
Wood ships next day from the Coventry warehouse, and once it's in the house we line up the install on whatever day suits you.
No. Install labor gets paid on day one as our team unloads, and wood gets paid when it's dropped off. Nothing sits in our account weeks early.
Some winter shrinkage is normal for real wood. If anything goes beyond that, our labor guarantee for the first year plus the mill warranty mean we come back and handle it.