Felton flooring
Yes, we work in Felton
Felton is a quarter of an hour south of Best Choice Flooring in Dover, so a job down here is barely a journey. The town itself is small and most of the work sits in the houses and farm properties around it rather than on a main street.
That means older wood. Wide plank pine and early oak floors under carpet and vinyl, often never sanded, which is some of the most rewarding refinishing work there is.
What a Felton floor is actually up against
Age and damp. Older Kent County houses sit over crawl spaces on flat, wet ground, and the water table here is close to the surface. Moisture works up into the joists and the subfloor for decades, and what you feel is a soft patch or a floor that has dropped at one end.
Old boards themselves are usually the best part of the house. Growth rings on hundred year old pine are tight in a way nothing milled today matches, so the wood is worth saving even when the floor around it needs work.
What we handle here
Floors we work on in Felton
Hardwood Refinishing
Old pine and oak sanded back, stained and sealed. On a floor that has never been done, the difference is hard to believe. See refinishing.
Floor and Subfloor Repair
Soft patches, rotten boards and floors that have dropped, opened up and rebuilt from the joists out. See floor and subfloor repair.
Floor Sanding
Dust contained sanding, coarse to fine, with edges and corners hand worked so there is no dark band around the room. See floor sanding.
Garage, Shop and Barn Floors
Farm properties out here have real working floors. A coated slab stops the dust, keeps oil out of the concrete and mops clean. See resin floors.
Why Felton calls us
Why Felton homeowners call Best Choice
Old floors need somebody who has seen a lot of them. Mike Reed has been sanding and laying floors since 1993, and knows the difference between a board that is worth saving and one that is finished.
He is on every job, so that judgement is on site rather than on the phone. New boards get woven into the old, the room is sanded and finished as one, and the repair disappears.
Where you will find us around Felton
US 13 gets us most of the way and the rest is the back roads through the farmland either side of it. Felton, Frederica and the smaller communities around them all sit within a few minutes of each other.
Being this close to Dover means a single room down here is easy to fit in, which matters when the job is one hallway rather than a whole house.
Where we work
Laying and finishing floors across Felton
We cover Felton and the farmland around it, and we are back in Best Choice Flooring in Dover in fifteen minutes. West on Route 8 takes us out to flooring in Marydel, and north to flooring in Smyrna.
Ask the man doing the work
Straight answers about your flooring questions
Do you come out to Felton?
Yes, it is only about ten miles south of Dover. Even a single room is easy for us to fit in. Call (302) 480-9637.
My floor is over a hundred years old. Can it be sanded?
Usually, and old boards often come up beautifully. Mike checks how much wood sits above the tongue and whether any nails are standing proud before anything starts.
Part of my floor has dropped. Is that the boards?
Normally it is the subfloor or a joist underneath, and that is where the fix has to happen. We open it up, sort the structure, then make the floor good.
Can you match old wide plank boards?
Reasonably closely. Modern timber has a different grain, so matching is as much a stain job as a carpentry one, and we test on your own boards first. Tell us where in Felton you are and we will fit it in.
Do you do barns and workshops?
Yes. A coated concrete floor in a shop or barn stops the dust, keeps oil out and cleans with a mop. We cover all of Felton.
How do I get a price?
Call (302) 480-9637 and tell Mike the rooms and what is down now. He will come and look at it. That is the same in Felton as anywhere else we work.