Hardwood Floor Services in Chestnut Hill, MA | Weles

Welcome to Weles Wood Floor Services! We are a hardwood flooring company in Massachusetts, and our main office is right here in Chestnut Hill. Because our office and showroom are in the village, site visits can be sped up, sample talks can happen in person, and our staff knows the streets, homes, and condo buildings in the area well. We have more than 250 customer reviews on Google, Thumbtack, and Angi, and we have great ratings on Houzz and Yelp.

We are experts at installing, refinishing, and fixing wooden floors in Chestnut Hill and the neighbourhoods around it. Chestnut Hill is a town made up of Brookline, Newton, and a small part of Boston. The 02467 ZIP code defines it. Each job here is different because of this. We work on a Shingle-style home built by an architect in the Old Chestnut Hill Historic District on the Newton side one week and refinish floors in a Hancock Village townhome in South Brookline the next, or we put in a new installation in a condo on Boylston Street or Hammond Pond Parkway the following week. We change how we set up, how people can get to it, and how we control the dust for each estate, townhome, or condo.

The homes in Chestnut Hill are both unusually old and important. According to the Society of Architectural Historians, the Old Chestnut Hill Historic District has 132 buildings spread out over 98 acres. There hasn't been much new construction there since 1942, and the types of the buildings include Colonial Revival, Georgian Revival, Shingle, Tudor Revival, Queen Anne, and Italianate. That means that most of the floors we are asked to repair were put in between 1870 and 1930. They are usually first-growth oak, heart pine, or maple that has had wax, shellac, or polyurethane applied over them for many years. The fastest way to ruin these floors is to sand them too much. Before we even touch the surface with a machine, we start every estate-era refinishing job by measuring the thickness of the leftover wear layer and mapping out the board's direction.

In Chestnut Hill, dustless floor cleaning is standard, not an extra. Our American Sanders and Oneida HEPA-filtered vacuums remove about 90–95% of dust from the air, and we use plastic film to block off rooms next to each other. This is important in homes with expensive finishes, rugs, art, or furniture that can't be moved all the way. We also bring the Lagler Trio for clients who want a surface that looks like furniture. This machine gets rid of both straight and chattering marks and works best in the big, open living and dining rooms that are popular in Chestnut Hill's estate-era homes. About 5% of flooring companies in Massachusetts use a Trio, and we're one of them.

When we do setups, we follow NWFA/NOFMA rules and use a process that is based on New England's daily changes in humidity. The relative humidity in Boston ranges from about 62% in the winter to 72% in late summer. This is what causes floors that weren't put properly to expand and contract, leaving gaps and cups. We let the materials get used to the site, make sure the subfloor is flat, and make sure the difference in moisture levels between the subfloor and the hardwood is within 4% before attaching them. This is the range that NWFA recommends for stable installs. We don't have to pay extra to stop by for mid-acclimation moisture tests since we're based in Chestnut Hill. This is how we make floors for homes in Massachusetts that last longer than the first season.

Along Hammond Street, we have historic houses, in Hancock Village, we have condos, and in South Brookline and the Newton side of the village, we have single-family homes. Check out our portfolio for examples and our YouTube page for videos that show you how to do things. Because of the old floors, high-end finishes, and homeowners in this town who want it done right the first time, our wood floor restoration service is made just for them.