New York Renovations

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New York Wood Flooring is the BEST. Tony goes far our of his way to make sure you are happy with what you want, and what you get. He always makes himself available to answer questions, and understands the realities of budgets. He works with you every step of the way and insures that you are happy with the job performed. Several friends have also worked with New York Wood Flooring with the same results. I have never ha such a pleasurable experience working with a NYC contractor before meeting Tony and his team.

I Met with Anthony Valenti, the owner, two times.  The first time was to discuss re-finishing my wood floors. After interviewing 5 other companies, I chose  Anthony ( aka.New York Wood Flooring) because he was the most knowledgable, trustworthy and... his price was most fair ($2228).  The floors took about 4 1/2 days to do.  The workers were most diligent.  They moved all the furniture and wrapped each piece in plastic.  They carefully vacuumed at the end of each day.  The second meeting with Anthony was to discuss the painting of my apartment  which was expensive ($7000).  I chose to break-up this job into two sessions.  The first session was to start right after the floors were completed and dried.  The painters (Melvin and Willie) came with their General Manager, Zoran.  These men were an absolute pleasure to work with.  I have never experienced workers taking such pride and care in everything they did.  They thoroughly  protected all my floors and re-wrapped, and moved all my furniture.  Anything that had to be disconnected (like audio and video equipment), lighting, paintings, etc. were also carefully handled.  The first round of painting lasted 5 days…this was just the painting of my living room, dining area, foyer, hallways and ceilings.
  All repair work  and painting of wood moldings was carefully attended to.  All scraping, sanding and plastering ( also skim coating of one wall) was equally taken care of.  Painter's blue tape was applied to all areas needing further protection.  Primer plus two coats of Benjamin Moore paint were  carefully and artistically applied.  Never once did I have to tell them that they missed a spot or that something needed to be done.  They thoroughly cleaned up after themselves while they worked and at the end of each day they packed their equipment into small work stations.  No plaster pieces or paint drippings were  ever left unattended.  INCREDIBLE !!!  I made comment about how well they work together and was  proudly told, "We are professionals!"  Indeed, they truly are !   When the job was finished, Willie and Melvin put every piece of furniture back where it belonged and re-hung paintings and blinds.  They re-attached and rebooted all the electronics as well.  They even helped me re-make my bed that had been taken apart. Of course I asked for these gentlemen to come back to complete the painting of the rest of my apartment two months later.  I must also tell you that they often went beyond their jobs in helping me.  I had trouble with the lighting in one of my chandeliers.  Zoran bought whatever was needed and then fixed it.  I expressed that I just didn't know how to go about cleaning the chrystal so Zoran picked up a product for me and Melvin brought me some of the product his wife uses.  He even cleaned the top of the chandelier that i couldn't reach.   The belief of this company is to leave the customer happy and well satisfied  with the work they do.  They will do what it takes to accomplish this!
  They are GOOD, GOOD people who are polite, honest, thoughtful, meticulous and hard working !  It was indeed a pleasure working with all of them!!!   I have to tell you that I did not interview other companies for the painting.  i know that I probably could have found others who would have charged me far less. However, I was terribly concerned about the job being handled with great care so I opted to go with Anthony and pay the price.  Would I do it again?  Absolutely, but, I might have to save up for it and that might take me another 5+ years.