Hardwood Floors in Andover, MA

Between $10 and $22 per square foot for material and labor together, so a 1,000 square foot first floor in one of Andover's 1970s to 1990s colonials lands between $10,000 and $22,000. Labor is $3 to $10 of that: $3 to $8 for straight-lay strip, $8 to $10 or more for herringbone or chevron. Those colonials usually sit on plywood, so the subfloor line stays small; a 19th-century Ballardvale mill house may need $2 to $10 per square foot of leveling or overlay before the first board.

That depends on what the 1981 conversion left behind. The Balmoral at 16 Balmoral Street was built in 1923 as the American Woolen Company's headquarters and cut into 86 mostly one-bedroom units, so a given unit may have original strip flooring, a later floor laid over it, or engineered boards, and only a wear-layer measurement at the estimate settles which. Whatever is there, the neighbors beyond the wall and ceiling are the constraint: water-based Bona Mega ONE or Traffic HD keeps fumes down, and any work hours the association sets fix the schedule.

No. The commission's authority is demolition: a building it finds preferably preserved can be held for up to twelve months while alternatives are explored, and that applies to the structure, not to sanding the floors inside it. What does involve the town is the container if old flooring is coming out: dumpster permits in Andover are issued by Fire Rescue, and anything that opens the street goes through the DPW. On a tight Central Street or Ballardvale lot, settle where the truck parks before the crew arrives.

Because the house dries out when the heat comes on. Indoor humidity in a heated Merrimack Valley house drifts from 50 to 60 percent in August to 20 to 30 percent by midwinter, the oak gives up moisture, and 2 1/4-inch strip shrinks across its width, so gaps are widest around February and mostly closed by June. Uniform hairlines are normal and should not be filled, since filler cracks out when the boards swell back. A gap that stays open all summer, or one board that moved alone, points to subfloor moisture or a loose fastener.

Not with Weles; it is the default on every job rather than a line item, although many Massachusetts companies do bill it as an extra. The setup is an American Sanders or Oneida vacuum on the big machine, a backpack unit for the edger, HEPA filters throughout and plastic film over doorways and built-ins, which together hold back 90 to 95 percent of the dust. In a 1920s Shawsheen Village house with plaster walls and original woodwork, that is the difference between wiping down one room and cleaning the whole house.