Grey porcelain tile set on a diagonal in a Church-Wellesley entry, beside the front door and the foot of the stairs. Red levelling clips sit at every corner, holding the tile edges flush with each other while the thinset cures.
Within a few hundred metres here you have high-rise units sitting on concrete slab and converted houses sitting on wood joists with original plank subfloor. Those are opposite problems. In the tower the questions are slab moisture, flatness and the declaration's acoustic minimum, and solid hardwood is off the table because there is nothing to nail into. In the converted house the questions are subfloor thickness against the 19 mm minimum, squeaks, and whether the original boards under the carpet are worth uncovering. Same product catalogue, entirely different quote, which is why we measure rather than price off an address.
Slab tested, underlay lab certificate supplied, board package prepared.
Joist and plank subfloor work, with squeaks fixed before the floor goes down.
Original boards uncovered, assessed and sanded where thickness remains.
This single answer decides which half of the service list is even available to you.
A converted house divided into units may still have rules about impact noise between them.
Under 19 mm and an overlay is required before nail-down hardwood.
Carpet in these houses frequently hides original boards that are worth uncovering.
The converted houses on these streets were built when solid oak strip was the standard floor rather than an upgrade, and a great deal of it was carpeted over in the seventies and never seen again. Lifting a corner in a closet takes two minutes and frequently changes the entire plan, because refinishing at four to eight dollars a square foot against replacing at ten to eighteen is a difference worth checking for before anything is ordered.
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Ontario Flooring installed new hardwood flooring throughout our home, and the results look beautiful. The crew was careful, professional, and kept the work area clean from start to finish.
The team refinished our existing hardwood floors and brought them back to life. The colour looks great, and the final finish is smooth and consistent.
Tap the floor and listen, or look at the building's age and form. Anything in a post-1960s tower is slab. A converted house is joists. If it is genuinely unclear, that is one of the things the site visit settles in the first five minutes.
In a converted house of this era, quite often original hardwood, sometimes in good condition because the carpet protected it. Sometimes it is a plywood or plank subfloor that was never meant to be seen. Lifting a corner in a closet tells you for very little effort.
They can. A tower has a declaration with a stated acoustic minimum. A converted house may have no formal rule at all, or a landlord's requirement instead. Either way, an acoustic underlay is worth having when someone lives below you.