Installing Hardwood Floors

Wood floors add value and beauty to your home, but with any major improvements you should expect some disruption and inconvenience. We will employ our experience, the latest equipment and the most environmentally safe materials to complete the work with the least possible disruption. However, you should be aware of the following factors:
 

Pre-installation Requirements

• The building should be completely closed in with outside windows and doors in place.
   
• All wet trades (drywall, paint, ceramic tile, etc.,) must have completed their work 7 to 10 prior to wood delivery.
   
• Air conditioning, heating, and ventilation systems should be operating and on.
   
• The temperature and relative humidity should at "normal living conditions" that is, between 68 and 80 degrees Fahrenheit and between 30 and 50 percent humidity for at least six days before the wood flooring is delivered. The wood flooring should then acclimate to conditions at the job site for three to five days and must be stored inside the house where the work is being done. Pine flooring requires 10 days of acclimation.
   
• Furniture, appliances and old floor-coverings should be removed from rooms where wood flooring is to be delivered.
   

Installation Expectations

• We will use plastic sheets to seal off the work area from other rooms. Nonetheless, some dust could infiltrate into other areas.
   
• There will be sawing, hammering and other noise during installation.
   
• We do not remove appliances or furniture, therefore ALL furniture, curtains, wall hangings (pictures, mirrors, shelf items, etc.,) and/or appliances (refrigerator, stove, etc.,) must be removed from the work area.
   
• We do not remove baseboards, unless reinstalling new ones.
   
• Rugs or existing flooring must be removed before work can begin. If conditions exist which were unforeseeable at the time of our written estimate because of these floor coverings, Douglas Flooring reserves the right to revise the original estimate subject to the customer’s approval.
   
• If Douglas Flooring has been contracted to rip out existing flooring/subflooring, we cannot be held responsible for any breakage that may occur to ceramic, granite, marble or slate flooring that abuts the rip out area. This same clause applies to the installation of hardwood floors that abuts to ceramic, granite, marble or slate flooring - DFI cannot be held responsible for breakage.
   
• Thresholds and moldings that are not standard items of manufacturers', and have to be custom made, will be priced according to specifications.
   
• Any questions or concerns regarding job scheduling, arrival times or the installation process should be directed to our main office and not to the work crews.