Hardwood Floors in Brighton MA

It does not. The Aberdeen Architectural Conservation District, designated in 2002, reviews exterior work visible from a public way on the post-1887 Queen Anne, Shingle and Colonial Revival houses along Chiswick Road, Sutherland Road, Chestnut Hill Avenue and Beacon Street, and its commission meets the second Thursday of each month for exactly that. Sanding and finishing inside never goes before it. What those houses do bring is floors from the 1890s through the 1920s that may already have been sanded twice, so the wood left above the tongue gets measured before any promise about a full refinish.

Saturday needs paperwork in Boston. The city's noise rules confine construction work, and a running belt sander counts, to 7am through 6pm on weekdays; Saturday, Sunday or holiday work needs an off-hours permit from Inspectional Services, renewed a week at a time. Most associations around Brighton Center and Oak Square then narrow that further in their own bylaws, so read yours before booking. The practical answer is a key or a lockbox code on a weekday, with the project manager texting you when the last coat is down and again when the floor takes furniture.

Material and labor together run $10 to $22 per square foot, which puts a 1,000-square-foot floor-through at $10,000 to $22,000. Labor is $3 to $10 of that: $3 to $8 for straight-lay plank, $8 to $10 and up for herringbone or chevron. Where a converted triple-decker still has its original board subfloor under the old strip, leveling or a plywood overlay adds $2 to $10 per square foot, or $900 to $3,000 for a whole floor, and a stacked unit may also need the sound-rated underlayment the association specifies. The estimator gives a written figure.

With water-based products only. Weles works with five water-based sealer tones, Nordic, Natural, Classic, Intense and Amber, and Nordic is the one that pulls red oak toward a pale, slightly gray Scandinavian look that oil-based finishes would warm back toward orange over time. For a deeper color, Bona DriFast stain comes in 24 stock colors that intermix, and staining adds 3 to 5 working hours per 1,000 square feet to the schedule. Bona Traffic HD over either holds the color as chosen, so a floor-through near Boston College that was finished pale stays pale rather than ambering.

Boards, not plywood, in nearly every case. Two-families and triple-deckers of that age around Oak Square and Brighton Center were commonly built with a subfloor of 3/4-inch pine boards, often laid diagonally and nailed straight to the joists, and a century of drying has left them cupped, gapped and sometimes loose. Before a new strip floor goes down that surface is screwed tight, leveled, and often overlaid with plywood so the nails have something to bite, which is the subfloor line on an installation quote. For a refinish nothing changes below; the old strip is sanded in place and only loose boards are refastened.