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Wood Floors in East Greenwich, NJ
Deco Hardwood Floor sands, refinishes, installs and rebuilds wood floors and stairs in East Greenwich, NJ. The median home here dates to 2001, and 11.4% of the housing was built before 1940, which is what decides whether your floor is a refinish or a restoration.
What is usually under the floor here
Engineered wood or vinyl plank, with rarely enough solid material to refinish.
Newer construction leans on engineered wood and rigid-core vinyl. Both are built to be stable over concrete and both are built to be replaced rather than restored.
That shifts what we do here. The work in this stock is installation, repair of damaged sections, and stairs, which are the one part of a new house that is still built from solid material and still worth refinishing.
Worth knowing here
Slab construction is common in newer housing, and a slab has to be tested for moisture before any wood goes on it. That test is a number, not an opinion.
Most of the housing here postdates the federal lead rule
Approximately 26.2% of the homes here were built before 1978, so most addresses fall outside it.
The EPA rule covers paid work disturbing painted surfaces in pre-1978 housing. In newer stock most addresses sit outside it, which simplifies how the work is staged.
It does not change how we sand. Vacuum extraction at the machine is how our equipment runs regardless, because the difference in the room is obvious whether or not a regulation is involved.
How the housing in East Greenwich compares
Of the 4,370 housing units in East Greenwich, roughly 500 were built before 1940 and approximately 1,100 before 1978.
That makes the housing here newer than the 20 Gloucester County towns in our data taken together, where approximately 46.9% of 118,381 units predate 1978, and below the 60.5% figure for our whole service area. By the share built before 1940, East Greenwich ranks 7th of those 20. The full table is published as open housing data.
Within Gloucester County, the oldest housing in our data is in Pitman, with a median year of 1946, and the newest is in Woolwich, at 2005.
| Place | Miles away | Median year built | Built before 1940 |
|---|---|---|---|
| East Greenwich | 0 | 2001 | 11.4% |
| Paulsboro | 3.4 | 1953 | 30.8% |
| Greenwich | 4.0 | 1964 | 16.5% |
| Mantua | 4.1 | 1985 | 6.0% |
| West Deptford | 4.6 | 1976 | 4.4% |
What the work here usually looks like
The work here runs the normal range: refinishing floors that are still sound, installing new where they are not, and stairs.
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What we do in East Greenwich
Hardwood Floor Refinishing
Sand the old finish off, repair what needs repairing, and put a new finish down
Dustless Floor Sanding
Vacuum-extraction sanding
Solid Hardwood Floor Installation
Solid wood, nailed down over a wood subfloor
Engineered Hardwood Installation
Real wood over a stable core
Luxury Vinyl Plank (LVP) Installation
Waterproof, quiet, and it does not care about a wet basement
Custom Stair Installation
Treads, risers, stringers and skirt board, built to a drawing instead of a catalog page
Stair Refinishing
Stairs take more wear per square foot than any floor in the house, and they are sanded almost entirely by hand
Hardwood Floor Repair
Board replacement, weaving in new wood, squeaks, gaps and cupping
Why homeowners hire Deco Hardwood Floor
Deco Hardwood Floor is owner operated: the person who quotes wood floor work in East Greenwich is the person responsible for it, and the material comes with the labor in one number.
Material and labor in one number
We buy the flooring direct from the distributor and pass the store price through, so you are not sourcing wood on your own between quotes.
Samples come to your house
Samples and larger offcuts come to you, so the color gets chosen in your own light instead of under a showroom lamp.
Stairs and railings built in house
Treads, risers, handrails and newel posts are drawn and built by our own crew. Most flooring crews subcontract stair work or decline it.
The owner quotes the job
The person who measures your floor is the person responsible for the work. There is no salesperson in between.
Measured before it is promised
Remaining thickness is measured at the edge of a board before we say a floor can be sanded, and no price is firm before we have seen the room.
Told straight, including the limits
Vacuum extraction catches most of the sanding dust and not all of it. We tell you that before the job instead of after.
More about who we are and what we will not claim on the About Deco Hardwood Floor page.
Questions about wood floors in East Greenwich
Do you actually work in East Greenwich?
Yes. East Greenwich sits 21.2 miles from our base in Philadelphia, inside the area we cover. We quote the job before we schedule it, so you know the answer before anyone commits.
Can you tell me what my floor needs over the phone?
We can tell you what is likely, and this page is most of that answer. What we cannot do is quote a floor we have not seen, because remaining thickness and what is under the covering both decide the job and neither is visible in a description.
Do you bring the material?
Yes. We buy direct from the distributor and the material lands in the same number as the labor. Samples and larger offcuts come to the house so you choose in your own light.
Is there anything worth refinishing in a newer house?
The stairs, usually. They are still built from solid material in most construction, they take more wear per square foot than any floor, and they are the one surface where refinishing beats replacing.
Towns near here
Send a photo and we will tell you what you are looking at
Wood floor work in East Greenwich starts with someone reading the house. We quote every job ourselves, with no salesperson in between, and a photo of the floor gets you a straight answer faster than a form does.
