Hardwood Floors Sherborn MA

With the right build-up, yes. Sherborn Meadows at 43 Kendall Avenue is a 24-unit, elevator-served 55-plus building, so every floor except the lowest has a neighbor underneath, and whatever sound requirement the association has decides the underlayment before the species is chosen. A glued or floating engineered white oak, 9/16 inch thick, over an acoustic mat is the usual answer; the boards ride the elevator, acclimate in the unit for several days, and go in during the hours the association allows.

The delivery itself does not, but the roadside does. Sherborn has adopted the state Scenic Roads Act with its own regulations, and on a designated road the trees and stone walls inside the right-of-way cannot be cut, moved or altered without a public hearing before the Planning Board. In practice that means a box truck that cannot make the turn between two walls stays on the road and the lumber is carried in, rather than anyone nudging a wall to widen the entrance. A new or relocated driveway cut needs its own permit as well.

Materials and labor together run $10 to $22 per square foot, so 2,000 square feet comes to $20,000 to $44,000 and 1,000 square feet to $10,000 to $22,000. Labor alone is $3 to $10 of that, with straight strip at $3 to $8 and herringbone or chevron at $8 to $10 and up. The 1960s and 1970s colonials that make up about half of Sherborn's housing usually have sound subfloors, and where a board subfloor over a damp crawlspace has moved, flattening it adds $2 to $10 per square foot.

Use a tinted water-based sealer rather than a stain. Weles applies sealers in five tones, Nordic, Natural, Classic, Intense and Amber, and Nordic pulls the pink out of 1970s red oak strip toward a pale gray without the 3 to 5 extra working hours per 1,000 square feet a full stain takes. Topcoated with Bona Traffic HD, which does not change color over the years, the floor stays where you left it; an oil-based finish would amber the same oak within a few seasons.

Sherborn's 4,400 or so residents live almost entirely in owner-occupied houses, 92.5 percent of the town's units, which come up for refinishing on their own schedule rather than at tenant turnover, and the town sits well inside the service area. Weles runs 7 crews and 7 vans from the Chestnut Hill showroom and a second location in Ashland on the MetroWest side, 3 project managers are reachable 7 days a week, and 500-plus client references are available on request.