Welcome to Weles Wood Floor Services, a Massachusetts hardwood flooring company serving Norwood and surrounding communities in Norfolk County. We have hundreds of happy customers with over 250 reviews on Houzz, Yelp, Google, Thumbtack & Angi.
🔍 Weles Wood Floor Services is a fully accredited Better Business Bureau company. More info at our BBB profile.
We specialize in hardwood floor installation, refinishing and repair in Norwood and offer a range of flooring services to suit the town’s unique housing stock. Homes in Norwood are primarily mid-century, with about 29% built between 1940 and 1959, and another 29% built between 1960 and 1979. There is a significant pre-WWII layer, with about 25% built before 1939, and just about 4.6% built since 2000. That means a town where most of the projects are refinishing, not new building. Cape Cods, ranches, Colonial Revivals and split-levels are the kings in South and North Norwood and Westover while older Colonials and Victorians are concentrated around Nahatan and the Town Common area. We default to dustless floor sanding in occupied homes on small lots and the two- and three-family properties scattered throughout South Norwood and the Centre, using HEPA-filter vacuums that reduce airborne dust by roughly 90–95% and plastic film to seal off adjacent rooms as we work.
For clients who want a “furniture-quality” finish, we can also use higher-end finishing systems such as the Lagler Trio, especially suitable to the open-plan kitchens and great rooms common in renovated Westover center-hall colonials and the mid-century ranches of North Norwood. Our approach to installations is moisture-first, driven by the seasonal swing in New England: Norwood summer mornings routinely see relative humidity above 90%, while winter forced-air heating drops indoor air to 20–30%, a pattern found in NOAA climate normals for the region. We acclimate boards on site, take readings with high sensitivity moisture meters and confirm the differential between subfloor and hardwood is within 4% before fastening — the standard set by NWFA/NOFMA standards. Weles is a residential flooring company MA, fully accredited by the Better Business Bureau.
🌱 Eco-Friendly Promise
We are a green company using environmentally friendly sealants and quality local wood. This is how we give back to Norwood and the surrounding communities in Norfolk County.
We are a Massachusetts based company and have worked with homeowners and businesses all throughout Norfolk County in Norwood Centre, Town Common area, South Norwood, North Norwood, Westover and Nahatan. See what we have delivered by checking out our portfolio, and refinishing and installation walk-throughs on our YouTube channel. We restore and repair hardwood floors for businesses and homes in Norwood, including older homes surrounding the proposed Local Historic District around Town Common that is being studied by the Norwood Historical Commission. We specialize in restoring the kind of original-character floors often found in Norwood’s pre-1939 housing — old-growth narrow strip, face-nailed boards, floors that have settled with century-old framing.