What your building changes
Board approval, working hours, the rug rule, and what parquet over a slab means for your floor.
Contact
Get an estimate for your floor
Send the details of your floor and your building and you will get a straight answer on what the work involves, what drives the cost, and how long it takes.
Tell us about your floor
The more you can tell us here, the more useful the first reply is. A photo of the worst part of the floor is worth more than a paragraph describing it.
What to have ready
Four things. None of them needs to be exact.
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Which rooms, and roughly how big
Room names and an approximate square footage is plenty. If you do not know the area, the number of rooms and a rough sense of size gets us close enough to be useful. We measure properly when we look.
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What the floor is now
Wood, parquet, laminate, vinyl, tile or carpet, and whether you know what is underneath it. If there is a wood floor hidden under carpet, say so, because it is often worth saving and that changes everything.
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How it looks
Dull and scratched, or worn through to bare wood in places, or stained and damaged. A photo of the busiest part of the floor answers this better than any description, and it is usually enough for us to tell you whether you need a refinish or just a recoat.
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What kind of building
A co-op, a condo, a rental or a house. If it is a co-op or a condo, whether you have spoken to the managing agent yet. This is the part that decides the timeline more than the work does.
What happens next
We reply with what we think it needs
Based on what you send us, including whether a cheaper option would do the job. If a recoat would work instead of a refinish, we say so at this stage rather than after you have booked.
We look at the floor
Condition under an old finish is not something anyone can judge properly from a photograph, so we look before any number is final. That visit is where we confirm what is left to sand, what is under the boards and what preparation the job needs.
You get a figure that holds
Written, itemised, and based on what we saw rather than on what we hoped. If something genuinely unexpected turns up once work starts, you hear about it before it is done, not after.
We work with your building
If you are in a co-op or a condo, we get the paperwork your managing agent asks for in front of them early and we work to the hours your building sets.
Where we work
Across all of Queens. Astoria, Long Island City, Sunnyside, Jackson Heights and Woodside in the west. Forest Hills, Rego Park, Kew Gardens, Fresh Meadows, Ridgewood and Middle Village through the middle. Flushing, Bayside, Whitestone, Douglaston, Jamaica and Queens Village to the east. Richmond Hill, Woodhaven, Ozone Park, Howard Beach and the Rockaways to the south.
Flooring Masters also works in Manhattan, the Bronx, Brooklyn and Staten Island.
Before you write
Two pages that answer most of what people ask us first.
Refinishing or a recoat
The difference, and the water test that tells you which one your floor needs.