Muirfield Hardwood Floors

After 20 years and raising 3 boys (you know what that will do to carpets) we decided to replace the carpet in living room, dining room, master and guest bedrooms and den with solid oak flooring as well as the stairway leading to the second story (The Boys Area) of our home in Mountain View. We had existing hardwood in the entry, a long hall and the family room that was already solid oak but stained a light color and we wanted to darken it to match the color we'd selected for the new floors. We went with solid red oak, (random length)...made in AMERICA...medium stain. It is outstanding looking. Could be featured in Architectural Digest. To further complicate the project, we had a step down living room that we wanted raised to the level of the balance of the house. As many of you may know, when a home is built to have carpeting, contractors don't make any effort to ensure they are level...thus was the case with us...toss a marble on the uncarpeted sub floor and it would take 15 minutes to stop rolling...okay, a slight exaggeration, but it was way off being level. Mike and his team took care of all that. They even rescrewed all the existing sub flooring to the floor joists (every 6 inches or so....) to avoid any possibility of future squeaks. One more complication...we chose to live in the upstairs portion of the house while all this was going on. I do not recommend this approach...if you can, move out for the 2-3 weeks....it's noisy and dusty... We took several bids and analysed them carefully, getting many references for each. Muirwood Floors, while not the least expensive, blew us away with customer reviews, and most importantly the confidence we had in Mike from the first meeting. We couldn't be happier. Mike came in on budget and on time. Mike and his assistant arrived on time every morning. Extra crew were added to raise the floor and later to install baseboard...BTW, we had a professional painter from Sacramento paint the entire downstairs after the floors were done and he commented that the quality of flooring and baseboard installation was the best he'd seen in over 30 years in the business! Use them again?...in a heart beat.