Nashville Floating Floor Installation

I would highly recommend Chaz and Sheila! They helped me out of a bind and I will always be grateful to them for going above and beyond to help me get in to my new condo on time with beautiful new floors. I look forward to the next project and I will gladly recommend them to friends and associates.

very detail oriented and courteous. Very upfront and honest about the cost and very fair. When he left, I noticed a scratch on my hardwood foyer floor resulting from the work. Jeremy bent over backwards to pay for the repairs and replacement of the floor area. He left me a quart of expensive sealer to reseal my backsplash in 2 years. I will definitely use this company again.

Great!! On time and on budget. The guys showed up by 9am and were complete by 2pm. Moved furniture, removed carpet and pad, installed flooring and quarter round, cleaned up and replaced furniture. Super bunch of guys and top quality service.

Carpet install went smoothly. No problems. Moved large pieces of furniture when needed. Responsiveness was Good, but I gave excellent because they appear to be moving into their Cool Springs/Brentwood location.

They were terrible and I would not use them again. My decorator found them but I have to find someone else to come and fix all of the baseboards. They are nice when you go in but they don’t guarantee the installers. The first room they did was fine but then it took three weeks for them to come do more work. He would call and say he was on his way but then not show up and I ended up paying the decorator to stay and wait for this man but he never came. I wrote a letter saying that they needed to make this right and that’s when they told me they did not guarantee their workers.

Andy was quick to take my call and was able to come over to my home within 30 minutes of taking my call. I had an immediate need to get vinyl flooring installed in my laundry room before I moved overseas. There was some residual paper and adhesive let over from the flooring I ripped up. Andy floated the floor; however, the leftover paper and adhesive could still be seen through the new flooring. I called Andy and he made an appointment to redo the flooring. He took extra care and tried a different method than his first attempt and the floor turned out great! I appreciated him wanting to make sure that I was happy with the work he did.

Tyler is efficient and meticulous. He does a top-notch job and is great to work with.

Lawrence and his staff were terrific. The work was done on time, at the cost estimated. and the crew cleaned up after themselves. As with any large jobs, mistakes will occur... such as forgetting to remove baseboard prior to installing flooring. Not a small mistake either! Lawrence had tThe crew came back to remove the baseboard and reinstalled w/ new shoe molding. Also, Lawrence brought to my attention the damage the painters were doing to my new flooring (and I hadn't even moved in!). He had his staff come back and fixed the flooring back to it's beauty. They take pride in their work. When I get ready to redo the rest of my floors, I will defintely call them again.

When I called Corlew and Petty for estimate they were prompt. Estimator gave me a price and said repairman would call me directly to set up a time. He came as scheduled and was awesome. This company did not install floors originally and in hindsight I wish I would have used them to begin with.

In 1975 a previous owner of our home did a remodeling job that included adding a master bedroom off the back side of the house. Because the property slopes down from the front to the rear of the property, this bedroom is about 10 feet above ground. Underneath the bedroom is our carport. Wall-to-wall carpeting was laid throughout the main living area, including the master bedroom. Over the last several years I had taken up the carpeting in the house, everywhere except this master bedroom. Well, after 39 years, the carpet was getting pretty tired. Also, it is a good dust collector. So, we decided to replace it with a new floor. A bit of evaluation showed that installing new flooring would first require ripping out the carpet and padding, then removing the particleboard underneath. This was more work than I wanted to do on my own, so I went to Angie's List and searched for flooring companies with high ratings. Since we wanted to look at samples and go over options, we limited our choices to companies that also had a brick-and-mortar store where we could handle samples and talk about options. We looked at various floor materials, such as laminate, hardwood (e.g., oak), engineered wood, and processed wood such as stranded bamboo, and eucalyptus. We compared nail-down, glue-down, and floating. We did not want glue-down because of the chemical vapors. We settled on a floating floor, and selected stranded bamboo that has been processed to increase its density and hardness. A floating floor can also be laid over a cushioning material, such as cork, which adds insulation (both thermal and acoustic) and provides a softer feel when walked on. Two companies provided quotes for the work. Initially the two quotes were within a few hundred dollars of each other. Quote #1 was for a floating bamboo floor over a fiber underlayment. Quote #2, from R & S Flooring, was for a nail-down bamboo floor with only a moisture barrier underlayment. Since I wanted a floating floor, I leaned toward quote #1 even though it was the higher cost. However, when I reviewed the quotes, I discovered that quote #1 had miscalculated the square footage by about 20% less than actual. When I brought this to the attention of the provider, he agreed that it was wrong, and his quote went up by 20%. That put the dollar value at over $1000 more than quote #2. So, I contacted R & S Flooring and asked them if they would consider the proposition that I would buy all the material (flooring + underlayment) and they would install the flooring. R & S Flooring agreed, and they provided a new quote for the labor. They also gave me an installation date that was way sooner than I expected. Like, I ordered the flooring on the Monday after Black Friday (December 1) and they installed it on December 9. I ordered the bamboo from Cali Bamboo. They have a "standard" click-and-lock and a "wide plank" click-and-lock. The wide plank type is 5/8 inch thick, about 5 inches wide, and 72 inches long per plank. I got the wide plank. It has a 50 year warranty, by the way. The underlayment is Quiet ComfortPLUS, which is 1/8 inch cork with a bonded plastic moisture barrier. The bedroom is 376 square feet, and I bought 400 square feet of the bamboo flooring, plus 4 rolls of the cork underlayment (about 425 sq. ft.) for a total cost of $2291 in materials. I will note here that my total cost of materials plus labor ended up to be only $3900! (Remember quote #1? It was over $5000!) On December 9, the R & S Installer team showed up at 8:15am. Three men plus power saws and other tools. They set to work and in two hours, the carpet and particleboard were out of the bedroom. That amazed me. Then they began laying the new floor. The head guy and I went over the direction that I wanted the planks to go, and he showed me how the cork underlayment plastic layer had a way to overlap the plastic from one strip of underlayment to the next. The installer from R & S told me that I probably should have purchased more and that he might run out due to cutting and fitting. However, these installers were professionals, for sure, because they had enough to do the floor and give me about 5 planks for any repairs that might be needed down the road. After the floor was laid, they added quarter-round molding throughout the bedroom. They also put down two tee-molding pieces for two doorways, which I had neglected to purchase. These were provided at no extra cost, too. The entire floor installation was done by 3:15pm, about 7 hours after they started. Later that day, another crew came and picked up all the carpet and particleboard waste material. During the installation, someone from the R & S Flooring office called me to make sure that everything was going OK. A word about the installer crew. They were very professional. Nobody smoked, which was nice because my wife is allergic to tobacco smoke. Nobody yelled. They asked if it was all right to listen to music (I said it was OK), and the music was not loud when they did play it. They cleaned up after themselves. After the floor was installed, I was able to walk on it immediately, and it totally exceeds my expectations. I would not hesitate to hire R & S Flooring again if I ever need more work done.