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The holidays are coming and your floors are looking shabby. Whether this is your first year hosting the holidays or you’re just—finally—ready to replace that worn-out wall-to-wall carpeting, there’s no better time than now to invest in professional wood floor installation.
There’s nothing like the warmth of wood flooring. Professionally installed wood floors lend an air of both elegance and coziness to your home at the same time. With a multitude of stains, widths and species of wood flooring to choose from, a new floor will upgrade your home for decades to come.
Modern wood floor installation is significantly less invasive than in years past, but still requires a bit of temporary disruption. Make things easier on yourself and prepare for your installation.
The more you can do in advance, the better. Even simple preparations on your part can help mitigate the mess, fuss and stress that comes with remodeling your home.
Here are four steps to help simplify the wood flooring installation process and make it go as smoothly as possible.
The holidays are the busy season for flooring installation. Homeowners tend to have a similar idea: updated, photo-worthy floors to impress the guests. The sooner you can book your appointment, the more flexibility you will have available to work around specific dates.
We invite you to contact us to set up your FREE Wood Floor Installation estimate today. Call us at 732-291-7263 or 609-924-7263 or you can fill out the form online.
When you make your wood floor installation appointment, try to be prepared to answer the following details:
If you don’t know all of these answers, that’s ok. We have experts that can help walk you through the process. Installing new floors is a very visual process, so we highly recommend taking a trip to our showroom and looking at our samples. This will give you an idea of what species of wood, plank size and stain color you like the best.
Once you have your appointment scheduled, get your rooms ready for the installers by moving furniture and breakables out of the way. Professionals from Gorsegner Brothers can do this for you, but must be informed in advance to account for it in the overall wood floor installation estimate.
If the new flooring will be installed in a bedroom, cover or remove any hanging clothing in closets. If installation will take place in any other room that has appliances, disconnect them safely in advance.
Removal of doors, trim, baseboards and old flooring must also be addressed. Decide whether you will complete this job or if you wish to have a professional crew perform the work. Discuss these needs with your Gorsegner Brothers installation team in advance.
Inside temperature during wood floor installation can impact the longevity of your investment. Did you know that wood can move and flex depending on temperature and moisture conditions? Wood naturally expands with heat and retracts with cold temperatures. Additionally, low moisture can lead to cupping and high moisture can lead to gaps.
That is why wood floor acclimation is so important.
According to the National Wood Flooring Association (NWFA), wood floor acclimation is “the process of adjusting (conditioning) the moisture content of wood flooring to the environment in which it is expected to perform”.
So what can New Jersey homeowners do? The best environment for wood floors is within a relative humidity range of 30-50% and within a temperature range of 60-80 degrees Fahrenheit.
Gorsegner Brothers offers a large selection of timeless, modern and durable wood flooring styles to choose from. Our experienced floor sanders and installers ensure that getting a new wood floor installation in time for the holidays has never been easier. Find out what to expect with your new floor installation from Gorsegner Brothers.
Do you already have wood floors? Depending on the extent of the damage, they might be salvageable. Dull, worn out floors with minor scratches can be refinished to look like new.
Before you invite friends and family over for the holidays, restore those floors back to their original beauty. We offer dust-free refinishing services which means less mess and less stress for you!
At Gorsegner Brothers, we specialize in installing and replacing hardwood floors, as well as sanding and restoring floors to give them their former shine. We provide free estimates for residential and commercial wood floor installation. Contact us online, by phone at 732-291-7263 or visit our showroom at 6 South Holmdel Road, Holmdel, NJ 07733 to learn more about wood floor installation, cleaning and refinishing for your NJ home or business. We look forward to working with you.
Gorsegner Bros refinished our hard wood floors both first and second floor. They did an amazing job at a very fair price and the floors look new!!! They were patient answering all our questions during the job and also provided suggestions!!! The work was done on time. Would HIGHLY recommend!!!
- Ramya J.
My wife and I are extremely happy with the result! The staff was professional, safe, tidy and quick! They had our old flooring torn up and the new floor installed in less than 48 hours which was a plus because losing use of our main room in the house for a long period of time would have been a real headache! Everything from the estimate, to the tear up, to the installation and completion of the job was smooth and done with the highest degree of quality and stellar workmanship. Would HIGHLY recommend!
- Andrew Scarpulla, Toms River, NJ
Gorsegner Brothers did an absolutely fantastic job on my living room floor refinishing – they took all of the dog claw scratches right out and made the floor look better than it did when I moved in. Highly recommended!
- Joseph Keller, Red Bank, NJ
I used this company and found the entire experience to be a pleasure. All the work was done to my satisfaction with minimal inconvenience. My entire first floor had to be ripped and replaced. I have had my floors done twice before, by other contractors, and went through many issues which were absent with Gorsegner. I am still admiring the floors today. The dustless system is a miracle. After the sanding I could run a finger anywhere and not find any dust.
- Dan Giacumbo, Holmdel, NJ
They refinished the wood floors in our kitchen and dining room. The work was done on time and completed with no mess. Most importantly, the result was beautiful. The floors looked much better than they did when they were first installed. We could not be happier with the result.
- Bambler
Gorsegner Bros installed, stained and finished a hardwood floor in my den. There was a problem in the way the floor was sanded such that the stain was darker in several areas along the edges. Gorsegner immediately re-sanded the entire floor and the result is perfect. Errors can occur with any work being done, but Gorsegner’s customer service and willingness to immediately correct a problem to the customer’s satisfaction is greatly appreciated. I will certainly use them again without hesitation.
- Barbara Gard, Lincroft, NJ
We hired Gorsegner Brothers to refinish a bedroom floor that suffered water damage during Superstorm Sandy. They did such a phenomenal job and were so incredibly professional that we had all of the floors in our house refinished by their company. I was amazed at how they were able to extract such incredible beauty from the dingy, dirty, old wood floors we had in our house. We are in the process of repainting and redecorating the entire house as a result.
- Barbara DeMango
Everyone, from the estimators, to the office staff and the work teams were courteous, professional and efficient. Diego, the leader of our work team, was exceptionally knowledgable and helpful with choice of color and how to go about each phase of the sanding/refinishing process (sanding straight line areas of the job rather than each room as a whole). They worked long hours and were meticulous about their work.
- Barbara DeMango
My husband, who is extremely meticulous and normally does all the work in our house, was as impressed as I was at the results of the work.I have passed their name onto another family and will definitely call them again when I require refinishing services.
- Barbara DeMango
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