Installations: When to Schedule Your Installation

Hardwood floors are a beautiful and timely investment for your home. Protect the floor from the start by controlling when the actual installation takes place during remodeling or construction.

Because hardwood floors are considered to be “living,” you’ll want to take into consideration the qualities that hardwood flooring can display over the lifetime of the wood. For instance, hardwood floors will expand and contract with normal changes in humidity or changes in the seasons. How the installer handles your hardwood flooring now will determine how it reacts for the rest of its life.

During construction and remodeling it can be common to have more than one crew of team members working on different aspects of your home. At any one time you can have window installers working side-by-side with roofers or bathroom remodelers. You want to schedule your hardwood floor installation at the very end of your remodeling or construction. You cannot rush the processes involved in preparing your home to receive and properly acclimate the wood and prepare the sub floor. In addition, if you're not using Wood Monsters products and are working with unfinished wood, then there are additional processes required onsite to sand and coat your wood, which also cannot be rushed.

In several cases, it’s common for the homeowner or construction Forman to be under pressure to complete a job by certain deadlines for various reasons. In these cases hardwood floors may be installed sooner than what is proper or moisture issues can be inadvertently caused by other crews also working on the home. Many times, homeowners or general construction crews are not aware of the expensive repairs that will take place down the road just because proper installation guidelines were not adhered to.

To be on the safe side with your investment, protect it by scheduling the job for last. Have your other remodeling or construction projects planned with the goal of having humidity levels properly balanced and consistent in the home for several days before the first shipment of your hardwood floor even arrives. This may mean fixing the roof to prevent leaks, upgrading the windows to conserve energy or even installing a sump pump in your crawl space to eliminate major moisture issues before they even begin.