Hardwood Floor Refinishing & Installation in Waltham, MA

Weles Wood Floor Services is a hardwood flooring company in Massachusetts that serves Waltham, the historic "Watch City" on the Charles River, and the Metro West towns nearby. We have more than 250 customer reviews on Google, Thumbtack, and Angi, and we have great ratings on Houzz and Yelp.

In Waltham, which has some of the most diverse housing stock in Metro West, we are experts in hardwood floor installation, refinishing, and repair. About a quarter of Waltham's homes were built before 1940. These homes are mixed in with ranches built after WWII and colonials built in the 1970s and 1980s. This means that every week we switch between narrow-strip red oak flooring in South Side Victorians and three-deckers and wider plank flooring in Cedarwood, Warrendale, and Lakeview ranches and engineered flooring in newer Bank Square condos. When you add in the brick-and-beam mill conversions at the Watch Factory on Crescent Street, the floors here need a lot more skills than floors in a normal neighbourhood. We use HEPA-filtered American Sanders, Oneida and backpack vacuums to cut airborne dust by about 90–95%. In Waltham, dustless floor sanding is standard and doesn't cost extra. That is important if you live above a unit in a Moody Street house or are refinishing a home in the Moody Street Historic District where you share walls.

The Lagler Trio is the most advanced fine-sanding system on the market right now. It's perfect for bigger open rooms like living rooms in Watch Factory lofts, open-plan first floors in Prospect Hill, or great rooms in newer Lakeview homes. Its multiple heads get rid of both straight and chattering marks, leaving behind a "furniture-quality" surface that can stand up to the big industrial windows that are popular in mill conversions. We use a moisture-first method on projects that was made to handle New England's changing weather, with humid summers and dry, hot winters, as described in the NOAA State Climate Summary for Massachusetts. That includes getting used to the space on-site for a few days, checking the subfloor and planks with a moisture meter, and making sure there is no more than a 4% difference in moisture levels before we glue or fix them. Not taking that step in Waltham will cause floors to gap in January or cup in July. Taking it will keep the boards tight for decades.

We've worked on homes in the Central Square Historic District, on single-family streets built after WWII near Prospect Hill Park, and on individually important properties that the Waltham Historical Commission keeps an eye on. Our main office is in Chestnut Hill, just minutes from Waltham. You can see our work in our portfolio, and you can watch project walkthroughs on our YouTube channel. For Waltham residents and small businesses, we also repair and restore hardwood floors. This includes the board-by-board work that narrow-strip oak from before 1940 frequently requires before it can be refinished. When we restore wood floors, our wood floor restoration service makes sure that the work lasts so that the homes will be around for another age.