Toronto flooring services

The right floor for the room, not the one with the best margin.

Every page below sets out what the job involves, what has to happen to the subfloor first, and where that product is the wrong choice.

Newly installed white oak hardwood floor running through an empty Toronto living room
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Hardwood installation

Hardwood is the finish most people picture and the one most often installed over a subfloor nobody checked. We measure the room, test the subfloor and the wood for moisture, confirm flatness, and put the layout, transitions and trim work in writing before a single board is cut.

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Refinished hardwood floor in a Toronto living room with warm red-brown tone
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Refinishing

A floor with life left in it does not need replacing. Refinishing takes the old finish off, corrects the colour and puts a new wear layer down for a fraction of the cost of new hardwood. The first job is telling you honestly whether your floor is a candidate, a recoat, or genuinely done.

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Installer laying engineered hardwood planks in an empty room during installation
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Engineered hardwood

Engineered hardwood is real wood on a dimensionally stable core, and in a lot of Toronto properties it is the correct answer rather than the compromise. Over concrete, over in-floor heat, below grade and in condos with humidity swings, it moves less than solid and it can be installed in more ways.

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Grey wood-look luxury vinyl plank floor installed in a finished basement living area
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Vinyl plank (LVP)

Vinyl plank has taken over basements, rentals, kitchens and busy family homes for good reasons: it handles water, it is quiet underfoot, and a rigid core hides more subfloor sin than wood ever will. It is still an install where preparation and the right core decide whether it looks good in five years.

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Light wood-look laminate floor installed through an open room with white trim
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Laminate

Laminate is the budget that behaves. A good one takes heavy traffic, resists scratching better than most wood finishes and installs quickly. A bad one, or a good one in the wrong room, swells at the seams and cannot be repaired. The difference is in the rating, the core and where you put it.

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Large format light porcelain tile floor installed through a kitchen and hallway
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Tile

Tile fails in predictable ways: a deflecting floor, no uncoupling layer, no movement joints, or a shower that was never properly waterproofed. Done to the industry standards, a tile floor outlasts everything else in the house. The work that gets it there is almost all underneath.

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Plush broadloom carpet installed in a Toronto bedroom with carpeted staircase beyond
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Carpet

Carpet is still the right floor for bedrooms, stairs and family basements: warm, quiet and forgiving. What separates a carpet that lies flat for a decade from one that ripples in two years is the cushion under it and whether it was power stretched or just kicked into place.

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Staircase with refinished oak treads and painted white risers in a Toronto home
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Stairs and railings

Stairs are the most looked-at surface in a house and usually the last thing anyone updates. Taking carpet off and capping the treads in hardwood, or refinishing what is already there, changes the whole feel of an entry, and it has to be done to the dimensions the building code sets.

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Wood-look plank flooring running through a finished lower level hallway
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Basement floors

A basement floor is a moisture project with a finish on top. Toronto slabs are often uninsulated, rarely flat and almost never dry in the way a flooring warranty assumes. Test first, build the right assembly, then choose the finish. Do it in that order and a basement floor lasts.

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Grey commercial resilient flooring installed through an open office and reception area
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Commercial

Commercial flooring is a scheduling problem as much as an installation one. The floor has to go in around trading hours, tenants, elevators and a building manager, and it has to survive traffic that would finish a residential product in a season. We scope both parts before quoting.

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Prepared and levelled subfloor in an empty room ready for new flooring
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Floor repair

Not every damaged floor needs replacing. Water damage in one room, a buckled run, a squeak that has been there for years, a patch left by a removed wall: most of it can be repaired well enough that you stop noticing it. The skill is in knowing when repair is the wrong answer.

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What every quote includes

The lines that make two quotes comparable.

  • Product, square footage and waste factor
  • Subfloor preparation and levelling
  • Removal and disposal of the old floor
  • Trim, transitions and stair details
  • What is excluded, stated plainly

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