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Wood Floors in Plymouth Meeting, PA
Deco Hardwood Floor sands, refinishes, installs and rebuilds wood floors and stairs in Plymouth Meeting, PA. The median home here dates to 1975, and 5.0% 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
Two and a quarter inch red oak nailed over a wood subfloor, which is the case that refinishes best.
Postwar housing in this region was built with a plywood or board subfloor and solid red oak strip on top, most commonly two and a quarter inches wide. It is the standard floor of the American postwar house and it is the easiest thing we work on: predictable thickness, predictable fastening, predictable result.
The question in this stock is more often the subfloor than the wood on top of it. Squeaks, deflection and movement come from below, and sanding a floor that moves gives you a smooth floor that still moves.
Worth knowing here
Red oak has a pink undertone that shows through most stain colors. If you are aiming for the cooler tones that are fashionable now, that gets tested on a sample board before anything is committed.
Whether the federal lead rule applies depends on the house
Approximately 54.4% of the homes here predate 1978, so it comes down to the specific address.
This is a place where the housing stock straddles the 1978 line the EPA rule draws. Roughly half the addresses are covered and roughly half are not, which means the answer is per house rather than per town.
Where it does apply, the rule governs how the sander is set up: containment and a HEPA vacuum collecting dust where it is generated. We check the age of the house before deciding how the work is staged.
How the housing in Plymouth Meeting compares
Of the 3,238 housing units in Plymouth Meeting, roughly 160 were built before 1940 and approximately 1,800 before 1978.
That makes the housing here newer than the 66 Montgomery County towns in our data taken together, where approximately 59.8% of 404,945 units predate 1978, and below the 60.5% figure for our whole service area. By the share built before 1940, Plymouth Meeting ranks 55th of those 66. The full table is published as open housing data.
Within Montgomery County, the oldest housing in our data is in Narberth, with a median year of 1939 or earlier, and the newest is in New Hanover, at 1998.
| Place | Miles away | Median year built | Built before 1940 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Plymouth Meeting | 0 | 1975 | 5.0% |
| Plymouth | 0.8 | 1966 | 6.8% |
| Whitemarsh | 2.0 | 1972 | 8.6% |
| Conshohocken | 2.6 | 1958 | 38.5% |
| Blue Bell | 2.7 | 1983 | 5.8% |
| Norristown | 3.3 | 1955 | 37.1% |
| Whitpain | 3.3 | 1983 | 3.6% |
What the work here usually looks like
Housing values here sit in the top quarter of our service area. The mix of owner occupied and rental addresses means we see both long-horizon restoration and faster turnover work.
Pennsylvania registers home improvement contractors through the Office of Attorney General rather than licensing them, and the registration number belongs on contracts, estimates and advertising.
What we do in Plymouth Meeting
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 Plymouth Meeting 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 Plymouth Meeting
Do you actually work in Plymouth Meeting?
Yes. Plymouth Meeting sits 12.8 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.
My floor squeaks. Will refinishing fix it?
No. Squeaks come from movement between the floor and the subfloor, and sanding the surface does not change what is happening underneath. Those get addressed before the floor is finished, not after.
Towns near here
Send a photo and we will tell you what you are looking at
Wood floor work in Plymouth Meeting 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.
