Walkthrough Before We Start
Hill town houses shift as they age, so before the first board goes down our lead checks your subfloor with a level and moisture meter and walks the stairs.
Hill town houses shift as they age, so before the first board goes down our lead checks your subfloor with a level and moisture meter and walks the stairs.
Everyone on your Roxbury floor draws a Brazil Floors paycheck and holds a license, insurance and NWFA certification. No other outfit sends anyone.
Rooms are measured edge to edge. Cartons, trim and reducers get stacked beside the door in install order, which keeps the crew moving all day.
The labor is warranted for one year, and the oak keeps its manufacturer warranty, so you hold coverage on both the workmanship and the material.

Boards run along the longest wall, the fastest layout with the least waste, and they stretch a small farmhouse parlor.

Short pieces set in a stepped zigzag and trimmed one at a time, a period look for a dining room near Roxbury Center.

Rows mitered at 45 degrees join in a clean V, which flatters the open kitchens of newer homes on Painter Hill Road.

A diagonal run draws the eye across a room and makes a narrow Hodge Road kitchen feel wider.

Oak squares with alternating grain in parquet style, a classic finish for a study in a Botsford Hill Road home.

Short oak pieces woven over and under, often inside a darker border, seen in the front rooms of old Church Street houses.



Our nail down labor runs $2.25/Sq Ft, nail and glue $2.50 plus adhesive and floated engineered $2.00. Include our oak and the installed price is $5.50/Sq Ft unfinished or $6.00 prefinished.
Yes, after we level the sags and fasten the subfloor. Old frames move, so we map the dips on the first visit.
Only engineered oak floated over a pad, at $2.00/Sq Ft of labor, once the slab tests dry. Solid oak belongs upstairs on wood framing.
Yes, at about $1.00/Sq Ft, and the debris goes with us. Squeaks and spongy plywood are repaired first.
Book your estimate on the website and $250 comes off the job. Moving furniture out and back is a flat $250.
You pay for labor when the crew pulls in and for material when the boxes are dropped off. Sanding jobs split evenly, half at the start and half at the final coat.
A few rooms of sealed oak take one or two days. Raw oak sanded and finished in place takes about a week.
Our own employees, never subcontractors, with a one year labor warranty and the manufacturer warranty on the oak.