Hardwood floor installation berkeley

We usually use water-based, eco-friendly, finishes. We can also use Sweedish oil-based finishes. There are nearly endless options with finishes and we will consult with you to make these decisions. While we specialize in hardwoods, we also install engineered and laminate flooring. This can be a great choice for certain applications and can save money in material and installation.

The goal here is to add new wood to an existing floor resulting in a seamless transition between new and old. Tired of that overly dark floor sucking all the light out of your room? Real wood floors can be sanded and stained pretty much any way you like. Zip code. Floor size - sq ft - sq ft - sq ft - 1, sq ft 1, - 1, sq ft 1, - 2, sq ft 2, - 3, sq ft.

Creekside pro construction inc. Very good 4. In high demand. Online now. Dan G. View profile. Amazonia Flooring. Great 4. Great value. Offers remote services. Ruth L. Free on-site estimate. Epoxy Foxy Floor Coatings. Exceptional 5. I would recommend Robert and his team to anyone interested in getting epoxy work done.

Thank you Robert! Integrity Brothers. Serves Berkeley, CA. Brian H. He also painted the inside of my entire home and he was very respectful. Fabian had very good communication with me and was always on time and full of energy to get the job done. I appreciate Fabian for being very patient with me on how I wanted the work done and how flexible he was with his hours. This man won't leave you unhappy.

Thank You Mr. Eder Avila. Leslie J. View cost guide. How much does it cost to install hardwood floors? Show more. Time it takes to install a concrete floor: 2 days to 1 week Installing concrete floors can take anywhere from two days to a week, depending on what you need done. Some of the factors that can impact how long it will take to install concrete floors are: The size of the space The stain or finish The condition of your existing floor Whether you want intricate, simple or no designs The overall complexity of the project To get an accurate estimate of how long installing concrete floors will take for your home, speak to a concrete contractor near you.

Laminate flooring: Laminate wood flooring is an artificial product that mimics real wood flooring. Vinyl flooring: Vinyl flooring is made completely out of PVC plastic and is an excellent option for moisture-prone areas like bathrooms and kitchens. Engineered wood flooring: Engineered wood flooring often has a plywood-core substrate and a genuine hardwood veneer as its uppermost layer. Best Flooring for Basements Basement flooring should be highly resistant to moisture, as many basements are below grade.

For example: An epoxy basement floor is a durable finish for concrete. Vinyl basement flooring is generally waterproof or water-resistant.

Ceramic tile floors are also water-resistant. The following are among the best flooring types for kitchens: Porcelain tiles can be fashionable, moisture-resistant, and cost less than stone or wood to install. Linoleum flooring can be durable, easy to maintain and affordable. Wood flooring could be damaged by dropped pots and pans, furniture and pets.

However, hardwood and engineered wood floors in kitchen spaces are still popular among homeowners. Best Flooring for Bathrooms Bathroom flooring must withstand high moisture levels while also being comfortable on bare feet. Here are some of the best flooring options for bathrooms: Porcelain tiles are generally comfortable, waterproof, stylish and less costly than stone or wood.

Vinyl flooring is waterproof, cost-effective and can imitate wood convincingly. This includes: Vinyl : Vinyl may not add much to the value of your home, but it is resistant to scratching, stains, dents and accidents. They installed new hardwood in a couple rooms downstairs and engineered wood for our entire upstairs.

The job isn't finished yet, but so far I've been very pleased with their work, their responsiveness, their professionalism, and their flexibility in accommodating our schedule and other work going on in the house.

Their bid was one of the higher ones we received, but not by much. I did like the thoroughness of their proposal, though. Everything was clearly itemized. We are thinking about hardwood in the hallway to match the entry. Any leads on craftsmen appreciated. He will let you buy materials and charge you for labor, or he will buy the materials and break down all the charges for you so you know exactly what you are paying for.

I am not sure whether he does tile now he tiled a bathroom for us and did a super job but he does a great job on hardwood and laminate. He did laminate throughout our old house 9 years ago, which looks as good today as the day he installed it, and just finished yesterday installing natural maple in our new place he installed the wood floor and then sanded and sealed it in place. His employees sealed off the closets and hall to minimize dust from the sanding.

He has refinished hardwood floors for my sister and her neighbor as well, and everyone has been very happy with his work. I'm posting to recommend a good flooring installer. Marmoleum is a great, green product by the way! But Ross did an excellent job and was super nice. He works with Berkeley Design Center, but I think also does jobs not connected to them. Wemre really pleased with our flooring and Imd highly recommend Ross. RC Flooring I would like to say that Dale Swirsding did a great job cleaning and rewaxing our hardwood floors.

They look beautiful and are not slippery. Dale was really helpful, and I would recommend him without hesitation. I was grateful to find his name on the Berkeley Parents Network. Liz in Berkeley. July I just showed my in-laws our upstairs remodel and was beaming proudly over the little bit of wood flooring we added where an outside balcony had been.

I remembered I wanted to share the flooring guys with BPN! I found Juan Reyes here and was thrilled with his work. Fast, affordable, creative, and quality craftsmanship. They kept the existing flooring clean and created a seamless joint between the new and old. They were pleasant and seemed to really enjoy their work.

We certainly love the outcome. We used him again this year and his work is fantastic. He and his crew's work is excellent. Kim shows up on time, finishes on time and is flexible when change is needed. Best of all, his prices are very reasonable, especially given the outstanding quality and workmanship. He knows what he's doing, and the end product is a high quality new wood floor, steps, and his wood floor refinishing is also wonderful.

His phone number is -Kevin A. I got his name from the Parents' Network, and he was as described by others: very efficient, worked quickly, very reasonable price and did some extra work at no charge He was very prompt and helpful and the floor looks beautiful. His phone is A glowing review for Joey Yovino-Young.

You could not ask for a nicer, neater, more professional fellow. Joey is honest and his rates are very reasonable. We just had our new floors done by Reborn Floors in Berkeley-- they did the job within a week, and Minh, the manager, was extremely thoughtful about calling us and telling us about timing.

The team of guys who did the work were super friendly and talented. Their prices are competitive and they have a nice showroom on San Pablo. Juan Reyes is finishing up a job replacing our kitchen floor and he is wonderful. His price is extremely good and his workmanship is excellent.

He's reliable and a nice person. I highly recommend Ivon, at Great Oak, to do your floors. He did an excellent job installing new hardwood floors for us, as well as refinishing one of our damaged floors.

Ivon is professional and his work is great quality. We were well satisfied with the results, plus he was easy to work with as well. Sincerely, Susan S. They have refinished the floors in my home, and I have referred many of my friends who have had only positive experiences for both installation and refinishing using both common and exotic woods. THe consistent reports are tidy, efficient, great quality, very reasonably priced, excellent customer service.

What more can you ask for? He just finished my hardwood floors, and did a great job. He was very professional, was always on time and sometimes early!

I was very pleased with the job, and wanted to provide the feedback to this forum. I have hardwood floors thoughout my house, and they are in great condition generally, but in a few spots, particularly under and around the dining room table and chairs, they look terrible. The varnish is gone, they are scratched, and the space between planks is no longer sealed. Having a toddler and a baby hasn't helped the situation, as there is always food on the floor.

I am wondering if it is possible to do spot revarnishing or do we have to do a full refinishing job? I would like to wait to do that until the kids are bigger, but I am worried about causing long term damage to the floors. Anyone have experience with this? Also, does anyone have any good ideas on how to protect floors under a table besides an area rug? Thanks in advance. Afer uncovered the carpet in our house, we realize how bad the floor was.

We really didn't think it was repairable, fortunately my co-worker referred me to Autumn Leaf Floor Service. Ming and the crew did such a wonderful job. It was better than what we've expected. Thanks Autumn Leaf Floor Service Our hardwood floor in the living room and dining room area about sq. After getting several estimates from those recommended in the BPN, we decided to go with Tony Nguyen of Specialty Hardwoods , also www.

His estimate was by far the lowest bid and he did excellent work. He is a super friendly guy, he shows up on time, finishes on time and easy to get a hold of. Based on my experience with him, I also hired him to do the baseboards in the living and dining rooms. By the way, the floors now look great. My mother recently had a wonderful experience with Tony of Specialty Floors , My mother's home is very difficult to access landlocked, no parking, many stairs and the job was a challenge.

Tony's pleasant, No problem attitude was indeed true for him. They were always on time and, even with added attention to detail requested, the original, very reasonable, price held. A job well done. No problem. We recently purchased a home in Berkeley that had very damaged hardwood floors. We hired Autumn Leaf Hardwood Floors to refinish and stain them. Franscisco was a dream come true. He was on time, actually early, hard working, extremely dedicated and highly professional.

We had a few setbacks in our house renovation project and Francisco was very accommodating to our scheduling changes. This guy worked from 8am to pm on certain days to make sure our floors were in perfect condition for our move-in date. I cannot say enough wonderful things about him. Meticulous, attention to detail, hard working and resonable rates.

I just wish I had more things for him to do. He was such a pleasure to have around and his work is of the highest quality. Even when my movers put some stratches in the floors on moving day, Francisco was right back to smooth them out and fix them. What a guy! He comes very highly recommended by us. Autumn Leaf Floor Service I found a few referrals for hardwood floor refinishers in BPN's past recommendations some time ago. Can anybody give me a more current recommendation?

OR, can anybody comment on their experiece with either of the following refinishers? Thank you all for you input. We just refinished our hardwood floors and used a local company, Amazing Hardwood Floor in Alameda. We had our floors refinished by Tulip Floors in El Cerrito last summer. They did a beautiful job and were super organized and professional.

Everything was on time. I don't have their phone number but they have a website. They also repaired a section and we could not see the difference between the old and new area they matched it so well.

We had several bids from companies listed in the BPN and Lam was the only one who noticed areas that could use a little extra work and made some room transition suggestions. We are using him next week for our bedrooms.

The price was not the cheapest, nor the most expensive, but the work was very good. We recently has new floor installed in our living room. And refinished the four bed rooms. They did a very good job so that both the refinished floors looks just like the the new installed one. We love it so much, we are so please that we end up installing hardwood in our stair and replaced all the hand rail, and remodeled our wood fire place.

Mr Nam from Hardwood Floor Master is very profesional. He would give us lots of good advice for floor care. We are very very happy with our floor. I hope you would want to try them too.. We just remodeled our house and used Amber Flooring who had been recommended by friends in Oakland for 2 rooms that needed hardwood floors and had a very unpleasant experience. When we scheduled an initial appointment with them to see samples and have them come do measurements the employee who showed up came with no samples and really was unhelpful and was not clear on why he was there.

We had to go down to their office and get our own samples which was not convenient. When they put in the flooring they damaged our walls in the kitchen and the bathrooms and left off pieces of baseboard.

When we called them to get this fixed they were unhelpful and borderline rude. They never told us the best way to clean the floors after installation and when I inquired they said read our website. For the amount we spent with them the service was less than satisfactory. I just wanted to warn other consumers if they are to use them for hardwood floors. In response to the less than glowing review of Amber Flooring I was disappointed to see the negative posting for this company.

My business helps clients to select contractors for things like painting and refinishing floors. Recently we suggested Amber Flooring to a client who is living out of the area. They came in and did a terrific job refinishing the floors in an older home. The price was competitive and they were polite and timely with their work.

Naturally, everyone has their own perceptions of good service and some companies like people have bad days. We have had other clients and perspective client who were also happy with their work. Home Stagger in the East Bay. I just hired Juan Reyes and his Uncle, Carlos, to install new wood floors in downstairs of my house in the Oakland Hills. I checked their references which were glowing.

They have tons of experience having worked for a larger company but recently started their own business. They were terrific; friendly, fast, and gave me a great price. The floors look perfect. Juan Reyes can be contacted at After using a Xmas tree preservative, our hardwood floor was badly damaged from the drippings. A pro. Fortunately discovered a trueMiracle Workerspecializing in blending flaws and small finish repairs. She prideful and passionate about her work and generous with her time.

She even educated me with some tricks of the trade. She's starting her own business,after working with a partner for 14 yrs. She's a delightful person along with her patience and skills. My floor looks brand new and totally repaired. We recently refinished our hardwood floors and got three bids.

We're incredibly frugal people and gave each worker a tip. I can't recommend them highly enough. Work done September Kathy. I've removed carpeting that's been down for 10 years and am pleased that the hardwood floors underneath look like they can be saved. Does anyone have any current recommendations or warnings about refinishers in the Berkeley area? We have great floors that were done by The Floor Show. Call Mike or Allison at Happy with my floors.

We just bought a home in Orinda, and need to refinish the hardwood floors. There are so many choices in the phone book. I don't even know where to start. Who do you recommend and NOT recommend? I highly recommend The Floor Show in Berkeley to refinish hardwood floors. They've done a fantastic job on our floors every time we or friends have used them. Call Allison at A happy customer. They do fantastic work and were very clean!!

Ynez - I saw your posting about needing hardwood floor refinishing and would highly recommend Ace Hardwood Floors in Berkeley. Their is We used Christie Tomalonis at , pager about 6mo ago. She is very good, detailed and reasonably priced. I got her through UCB list as well. We're getting ready to move into a new house with hardwood floors in need of refinishing. About square feet. We live in the Walnut Creek area East Bay and need someone who is inexpensive and can come out at the end of April.

I'd appreciate any advice others could pass along. Thanks, Shannon. Tony at Specialty Hardwood Floor refinished and repaired our floors before we moved in. Later he put in a wood floor for us in our downstairs. He was the most reasonable estimate we got and did a great job. He was also very reliable--on time, finished the work when he said he would and it cost what he said it would.

They are a family company and did a great job. They also repaired holes in the floor and added new boards to an area where we had ripped up linoleum. Their price was very reasonable. I believe you can reach them at In our case, we arranged for their work to be done while we were on vacation to avoid the fumes of the polyurethane , which worked out very well. To Steve, who needed flooring installer recommendations: James Sarmiento does an excellent job of installing both wood and laminate floors.

We got our t. We decided on Pergo rather than wood because of our three dogs and our baby boy. BTW - James does everything. He is efficient, works diligently, is conscious of your budget, and is honest, above all.

We recently hired Above Grade owner Lam Ng to repair and refinish a very damaged old wood floor in our kitchen, refinish the hall floor, and install a new hardwood floor in an addition. They did a beautiful job for a very reasonable price. We get a lot of compliments about the old kitchen floor - it looks incredible. We will definitely use them again. I am seeking recommendations for someone to install new hardwood floors and refinish existing hardwood floors.

Cost is a big consideration. Thank you. I have been researching Hardwood floors for the past 5 years. They both found the quality of his work and his price to be good. The first was a little less than pleased with Minh overall because he felt that Minh installed a different cheaper base board than they had origianlly agreed upon.

THe other was perfectly satisfied. I am slightly biased towards Amber, partially because they have a very professional staff, and a showroom where you can see many of the options. However, when Minh made a bid, he promised to match any other reasonable estimate. Another option is to buy the wood and have your contractor install it.

The cost of labor, however, can break the deal. Good luck Suffering from Hardwood Envy. Have any of you worked with them? Anybody else you know to do this job? Thanks Linda. We used Professional Flooring and Design in Concord to install our WilsonArt kitchen floor about 3 years ago. While I have had some reservations about the WilsonArt tiles themselves, I think they did a very good job in fact, a few unrelated contractors have even commented on what a good job they did, and they almost never do that!

It is imperative to have a very good installation, as the lines can start to show between the tiles. I would even suggest looking at a floor that is a few years old, if you haven't done so already, to make sure you like how they wear. You asked if anyone has worked with AMC Hardwood Floors in your post -- we have recently March , but for refinishing our hardwood floors, not for installing laminate.

That being said, I picked them because their bid was the lowest of the low bids I got our purpose was to refinish floors in a house we were about to sell. The guys who did the work asked me how much he had bid the job for which I was a bit put off by and when I told them, they joked about how there it was so low that they might as well pay me to do the floors. Hmmph Then, they did their work quickly and adequately.

The fumes were so noxious I would reel when I stopped by the house to check we were completely moved out of the house but the two guys doing the work did not wear masks or worry about opening windows.

I know your job will have different safety issues, but it disturbed me that the workers took so little care for ventilation for themselves was it an education issue? Also, there was a pretty big language barrier in communicating directly with the guys who did the work.

You might ask the guy who gives the bid if the workmen assigned to your job will have the language skills to converse about inevitable questions that arise during your job. All in all, we were satisfied with the work. But within the context of what I've mentioned above. We had a great guy install laminate flooring in our loft in SF. His name is Nilo Bartolome and not only did he do a great job, he went with me to pick out materials, was affordable and extremely reliable.

It was a great experience and the floors look great. He also tiled our bathroom floor and it looks wonderful. Give him a call. Dale Swirsding is great. He's a one man shop, very good, very professional. I've had him refinish, patch and also clean, buff and polish dingy floors. I can't find his number right now, but it is Swirsding Floors and I know it is in the white pages kristi.

Lee's Hardwood Floor has the best price and does a wonderful work with new or refinish. They put in a new hardwood floor in our kitchen and refinished the existing floor with some water damages beautifully last year. They are fast and very reliable and were least expensive of three companies I received quotes from.

Jenny Lee is very reliable and will come to your home right away to give you a quote. I looked for their but couldn't find it. They should be listed in the yellow pages in the area. I had the floors refinished 4 years ago when I moved into a house with some nice floors hidden under years of use. The work was done by Floors to Glow! My husband does floor refinishing. Works for The Floor Show. Of course I love the work they do. Are you thinking of installing a new hardwood floor or refinishing an existing floor?

Recently I had a new hardwood floor installed by Reborn Hardwood Floors. The company is recommended in the Parents Network archives for doing good work refinishing hardwood floors.

I'm sorry to say they did mediocre work installing a new floor. It was like they didn't notice. And they never came back to finish the job, as they promised they would.

After that experience, I wouldn't hire them again even though they were pleasant to work with. Call Christian Paul Hardwood Floors at You will receive expert advice, quality work, and most wonderful of all - reliability. For example, a am appointment really begins at am.

We just used the Ho family see past recommendations to refinish our entire downstairs. They did a great job, were very fast, very neat and VERY cheap!

We used Dale Swirsding of Swirsding's Floor Service to sand and refinish our hardwood floors before we moved into our new house this year. He did a fantastic job. He does all the work himself and cares deeply about the result. He was extremely flexible in meeting our timetable and coordinating with other people that were working on the house around the same time. The result of his work is beautiful. I wholly recommend Christian Paul Hardwood Floors.

They're in Piedmont and do a great job, prompt and very courteous.