Reliable flooring contractor

shakaman

Hi all,

I've just bought an apartment and I'm looking to floor it with either laminate or semi solid wooden floors. I've rang around a couple of contractors from the yellow pages and the quotes I'm getting aren't varying too much, I've also checked these quotes include the beading to allow expansion between floor and skirting boards. A friends recommended to use 1 contractor for both the buying of the floor and the laying it as there's the risk of buying a sh'tty floor and the layer getting poor goods etc. Most contractors seems to recommend a floor provider and I go and give them the contractors name and I pick out the floor which they will lay.

I'm very wary of just going with some guy from the phone book, can anybody recommend one they've used/friend/relative has used and had had a good job done? Any advice is very welcome!

Thanks in advance
Shak

Lex Luthor

shakaman wrote:

Hi all,

I've just bought an apartment and I'm looking to floor it with either laminate or semi solid wooden floors. I've rang around a couple of contractors from the yellow pages and the quotes I'm getting aren't varying too much, I've also checked these quotes include the beading to allow expansion between floor and skirting boards. A friends recommended to use 1 contractor for both the buying of the floor and the laying it as there's the risk of buying a sh'tty floor and the layer getting poor goods etc. Most contractors seems to recommend a floor provider and I go and give them the contractors name and I pick out the floor which they will lay.

I'm very wary of just going with some guy from the phone book, can anybody recommend one they've used/friend/relative has used and had had a good job done? Any advice is very welcome!

Thanks in advance
Shak

SIL just got hall, living room, dining room and all upstairs done in solid oak 5" boards supplied & fitted by Des Kelly. She said she got a good deal on the solid, although she was originally going for semi. The solid is not the nicest but it's solid. It looks more like semi.

I don't see a problem in buying the wood floor from a supplier and getting someone to fit it. I recently bought 40sq yd of solid oak from Buckleys and got a local carpenter to fit it.

As for laminate, it's very easy to fit and you could do a small room in 1-2 days.

shakaman

Thanks for the advice Lex