Flooring Installation in Manchester, NH

LVP, laminate and engineered plank are not the same product

Luxury vinyl plank has a vinyl or composite core with a printed image and a clear wear layer on top. Water doesn’t hurt it, which is why it ends up in kitchens, half baths and basements. Laminate looks similar but has a fiberboard core, and standing water will swell the edges. Engineered wood is a thin layer of real wood over cross-laid plies, so it moves less than solid hardwood when the seasons change.

Most of these floors float. The planks lock to each other instead of being nailed down, and a small gap is left at every wall, hidden by baseboard or shoe molding. Skip that gap and a floor that was flat in the dry months can hump up by August.

Photos from the company’s own Facebook page show the range. There is vinyl plank going down mid-job with boxes and offcuts on the floor, light grey wide plank in a bedroom, warm oak-look plank running to a sliding door, and honey-oak plank in a bright basement room.

In an old house, the subfloor decides how the floor turns out

Devin describes the local housing in his own words: "There mostly town-houses older 1800-1900s homes." In houses that age, what sits under the carpet can be almost anything. Diagonal board sheathing, patches of plywood from three different decades, sheet vinyl glued to thin underlayment, sometimes two old floors stacked on each other.

Click-lock planks don’t forgive humps and dips. Every manufacturer prints a flatness tolerance. Miss it and the joints flex, then tick underfoot, and one day a locking edge cracks. So the real work is underneath. High spots get ground down. Low ones get filled, and squeaky boards get screwed tight. Soft or rotted decking near a toilet, an exterior door or an old radiator line gets cut out and replaced. One of the company’s photos shows that stage, with the floor opened to the joists and new plywood sheets going down.

If you are pulling up old sheet vinyl or small square tiles from the middle of the last century, ask about asbestos testing before anyone starts scraping. Some of those materials contained it.

Stairs, doorways and the edges people notice

Stairs show the care in a flooring job faster than any open room. The photos include a flight with new grey wood-look treads and white risers, and an entry hall where grey-brown plank meets a carpeted staircase. A tread needs a proper nosing or a full replacement tread. A plank glued to the edge of an old step won’t last.

New Hampshire builds to the International Residential Code (the 2024 edition since July 1, 2026), which caps stair risers at 7¾ inches and allows no more than 3/8 inch of difference between risers in a flight. Add a thick new floor at the top landing, leave the bottom step alone, and you have built a trip. A careful installer measures the whole flight before picking the material.

Doorways get reducers or T-moldings where the new floor meets tile or an old threshold.

Why flooring sits at the top of Devin’s list

When Devin filled in the questions for this site, he named "Flooring and Tile" as his most profitable work. His Facebook posts say the same thing. The September 11 reel lists "Tile & flooring" first among what the crew handles, and the September 19 post lists "Tile, flooring, demo" first.

He sums up the business as "I’m a General contractor that can do anything from frame to finish." On a floor job that matters, because the subfloor, the baseboard and the door that suddenly drags are all part of the same room.

What to send for a flooring quote

The company’s own line is "Message us a photo — we’ll get you a number." For a floor, the useful photos are a wide shot of each room, a close-up at a doorway or floor vent where the layers show, and the stairs if they are part of it. Say whether the room sits on a basement slab.

The August 3 reel that lists flooring ends with "Reach out today for a free estimate." Whoever you hire, ask who removes the old floor, how subfloor repairs are handled if rot turns up, and whether baseboard and furniture are part of the price.