Hardwood Floors in Norwood

Sanding and refinishing costs $4 to $5.50 per square foot, so the 900 to 1,100 square feet of oak on the first floor of a Norwood Cape comes to about $3,600 to $6,050 before stain, and most single-floor jobs finish between $1,500 and $6,500. Whole-house work in a two-story Colonial Revival near the Town Common runs $6,000 to $12,000 and up. A Cape's finished attic bedrooms are reached by a narrow stair the belt sander cannot climb, so those treads are hand work and priced with the estimate.

Sometimes, and the deciding factor is how far the boards moved. The June 28, 2020 storm dropped more than 4 inches of rain on Norwood in about 90 minutes, sent water downhill from Nichols Street into the center and put 4 feet into the hospital basement, and a floor that soaks that fast tends to buckle off its fasteners rather than merely cup. Buckled runs are replaced under our water damage repair scope; cupped boards are dried for weeks, metered against the subfloor, then sanded flat once readings settle, since sanding early turns a cupped board into a crowned one.

Comfortably, for a typical unit. Nearly half of Norwood's 13,259 occupied homes are rented, so turnover jobs are routine here: sanding 1,000 square feet takes 21 to 33 machine hours, water-based coats dry in one to two hours so two go on in a day, and Bona Traffic HD is ready for furniture three days after the last coat. Norwood's anti-noise bylaw bars construction for hire in residential areas between 8 p.m. and 7 a.m., which still leaves a long working day for the sanding stage.

Generally yes, subject to the association. Windsor Gardens opened in 1962 as 676 garden-style units, the first complex of its kind in New England, with its own commuter rail stop added in 1971, and units on upper levels sit directly over a neighbor. That makes acoustic underlayment and the Chapter 183A condo documents the first check, before species or color. Engineered white oak glued or floated over a sound mat is the usual fit; solid nail-down is possible only where a wood subfloor exists, and nailing is the loudest part of any installation.

On the baseboards and stair risers, yes; the floor itself is bare wood under finish. Roughly four of five Norwood homes predate the 1978 lead paint ban, and the edger runs right against painted baseboards, thresholds and the risers of a Cape's attic stair, which is exactly where old paint gets disturbed. Containing and cleaning that dust is regulated under federal lead-safe renovation rules and the state's own version of them, and it is the one part of a floor job worth verifying rather than taking on trust: have the bidder's certificate number written onto the proposal.