Refinished oak strip flooring running the length of a sunlit room in a Bronx apartment
Flooring contractor in the Bronx

Hardwood floor work across the Bronx

We refinish, repair and lay wood floors in Bronx houses, walk-ups, elevator buildings and co-ops. Before you call anyone, here is what a flooring job actually involves.

Tell us about your floor

A name, a number and a line about the room is enough to start.

Before you call anyone

Five questions worth settling first, answered here rather than after you have already committed to someone.

  1. 01

    What decides the price

    Area, condition and how much we have to work around. Not a rate card. A clear room of sound oak is the cheap version of any of this work, and stairs, repairs and furniture are what move it.

  2. 02

    How long we are in your home

    Days rather than weeks for most apartments and most rooms in a house. The machines are quick. Finish curing between coats is what sets the calendar.

  3. 03

    What happens to the dust

    Sanders run to vacuum extraction and doorways get sealed before anything is switched on. Most of it never reaches the air, and we tell you what to move before the day.

  4. 04

    What the day actually looks like

    The route in gets protected, what stays gets covered, and we work in one direction so you lose the smallest part of your home for the shortest time.

  5. 05

    When you get your room back

    Socks first, shoes later, furniture after that and rugs last. You get both dates in writing before we start.

What we do

Five kinds of work. Which one you need usually comes down to whether the floor you have is worth keeping.

  • A floor sander part way across an oak floor, pale sanded wood behind it and dark old finish ahead

    Hardwood floor refinishing

    Sanding a tired floor back and building a new finish on it. Also the lighter buff and recoat, when the wood underneath is still sound.

  • New unfinished oak boards stacked on a subfloor, two laid out showing the tongue and groove

    Hardwood floor installation

    A new wood floor, solid or engineered, from whatever is under it up to the finish on top.

  • Two water damaged oak boards cupped and darkened, the sound boards around them still satin

    Wood floor repair

    Water damage, deep gouges, loose or creaking boards, and gaps. Fixing the part that went wrong without redoing the floor.

  • Close view of two laminate planks locking together over grey foam underlay

    Laminate flooring installation

    A hard wearing floor that clicks together over the surface you have, and goes down fast.

  • A vinyl plank cut neatly around a radiator pipe on a bathroom floor

    Vinyl plank flooring installation

    Luxury vinyl plank for kitchens, bathrooms and anywhere water is the reason wood will not do.

Which one is your floor

If your floor has gone grey in the doorways and there is a dark path worn through the middle of the room, the finish has gone and the wood is taking the wear. That sands out.

If one area is damaged and the rest is fine, that is a repair, and it is usually a much smaller job than people assume.

If the boards have gone thin, the nail heads are showing, or the floor has been sanded several times already, sanding again is the wrong answer. That is when a new floor is the honest recommendation, and we would rather tell you that at the start than halfway through.

Houses, walk-ups and co-ops

In the Bronx, the building matters more than the neighborhood. It sets your access, your schedule and how soon anyone can start.

A two family house with brick and siding, steps to the front door and a narrow side driveway

A house

We work from the curb or the driveway and carry in directly. Nothing to book, nobody to ask. One and two family houses are usually the quickest jobs to get moving.

The common staircase of a prewar walk-up, worn treads and a painted metal banister

A walk-up

Material and machines come up the stairs and go back down them. That is real work and it goes into the estimate at the start rather than turning up as a surprise.

A building freight elevator hung with quilted protective pads, doors open onto a plain corridor

An elevator building or a co-op

A freight elevator window has to be booked, and in most buildings the board approves the work before that can happen. Co-op City is 15,372 co-operative apartments across 35 high-rise buildings, so in this borough that sequence is routine. Start it early and the floor is the easy part.

Whatever your building, the first step is the same: a look at the floor.

Call (929) 207-0738

Working in an occupied building

The standard window for construction work in New York City is weekdays between 7 in the morning and 6 in the evening. Sections 24-222 and 24-223 of the Administrative Code set that window and provide for authorization outside it, and they also allow for limited exceptions we will confirm against your building and your job rather than assume.

That is the frame every job in the borough works inside, ours included, and your building may be stricter than the city is. We plan around both, we tell your neighbors nothing they do not need to hear, and we leave the common parts as we found them.

Flooring Masters across New York

The same wood floor work in every borough, and a page for each one.

Manhattan

Prewar co-ops and condos, elevator buildings and walk-ups, where board approval and building hours shape the schedule.

Brooklyn

Brownstones and row houses with original boards, alongside new build condos with engineered floors over concrete.

Queens

Attached and semi detached houses, garden apartments and co-ops, each with its own access and scheduling reality.

Staten Island

Mostly detached houses, which usually means easier access, fewer building rules and more floor area at once.

Across New York City

What a floor job costs, what your building asks for before it starts, and the whole picture in one place.

Tell us about your floor

The rooms, roughly the area, and a couple of photographs of how the floor looks now. That is usually enough for us to tell you what the job is and what it is likely to cost.

Call (929) 207-0738