Walkthrough Before We Start
Wet kayak sandals, firewood bark on the way to the stove and ski boots in January. A hard finished oak floor outlasts all three.
Wet kayak sandals, firewood bark on the way to the stove and ski boots in January. A hard finished oak floor outlasts all three.
Material rolls out of our warehouse in Long Branch, NJ and arrives via next-day delivery from Long Branch, which keeps the schedule tight even on a hilly lakeside road.
We bring maple, oak and engineered samples to the cottage and lay them against your knotty pine walls, so you judge the shade in lake light.
A twelve month warranty covers our labor, and the lumber maker backs the boards separately. Crews are our own staff and never an outside contractor.

Narrow oak strips follow the odd room angles of a converted lake cottage with hardly any waste.

Engineered planks float over a vapor sheet where the cottage sits on a low crawl space.

Gravel drives and steep steps on lake streets mean our crew hand carries every bundle to the door.

Nail and glue at $2.50/Sq Ft plus adhesive keeps boards still over plywood in a busy hillside kitchen.

Light maple lifts a darker lakefront living room that faces the trees instead of the water.

Snowmelt from boots near a woodstove corner asks for a finish that resists water rings.



Nail down labor is $2.25/Sq Ft, nail and glue is $2.50/Sq Ft with adhesive extra, and floating engineered is $2.00/Sq Ft. Our boards turn that into $5.50/Sq Ft for unfinished and $6.00/Sq Ft for prefinished, installed.
Not at all. We shim and plane the high and low points, then fasten the subfloor before any oak is laid.
A floating engineered floor over a vapor sheet is the safer route, at $2.00/Sq Ft of labor. We check humidity under the house before you order.
We do, at roughly $1.00/Sq Ft, and the old boards ride away with us. Soft or loose areas get repaired first.
It is, and it knocks $250 off when you book the estimate on the site. We move heavy furniture for a flat $250 as well.
Prefinished oak in two rooms is typically a two day job. Raw boards that are sanded and coated in place stretch to about a week.
Boards come from our warehouse in Long Branch, NJ with next-day delivery from Long Branch, and our team carries them in by hand.
Our own insured, licensed employees, with a one year labor warranty and the maker warranty on the wood.