- Moisture mapping and subfloor flattening before a single board is laid
- Solid nail-down, glue-down engineered, and floating systems
- Herringbone, chevron, mixed-width, and border layouts
- Radiant-heat compatible assemblies with manufacturer warranties intact
Most failed hardwood floors in the GTA were installed on a subfloor nobody measured. Ontario basements sweat, new-build slabs off-gas moisture, and century homes move with the seasons. Green Hardwood starts every install with a Tramex moisture survey, a flatness check, and an acclimation window matched to the species — not a calendar guess.
We install solid hardwood (typically 3/4") where the structure can take it, and premium engineered hardwood over concrete, radiant, or when a thinner assembly is required. White oak is the workhorse of Toronto right now; walnut, maple, hickory, and red oak are specified when the architecture asks for them.
Layout is not decoration. In a Rosedale hallway we run boards to carry the eye to the stair. In a King West condo we often switch to herringbone so a small floor reads as architecture, not leftover material. Transitions to tile, stair nosings, and flush vents are detailed on paper before we cut.
You get a written scope, a species and grade sample signed off, and a three-year workmanship warranty. Material warranties stay with the mill — we do not void them with the wrong adhesive or the wrong relative humidity.
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What installation looks like
What to look at: Board width, how the run meets the doorways, and whether the pattern is square to the room rather than to the longest wall.
Illustrative rendering, not documentary job photography. We will not put a manufactured before-and-after in front of you.
Where we take installation
Pins are service coverage and published bands, not a record of past jobs. Open one for the local band and what we take on there.
Installation
Hardwood Floor Installation across the GTA
- Municipalities
- 32
- Core
- 20
- We travel
- 12
- Worked examples
- 2
- Studio & workshop — Sterling Road. Stair components are built here, then fitted on site.
- Core service area — Free on-site measure for any qualified hardwood, stair or railing job.
- Extended range — We travel here for stair packages, whole-home installs and refinishing — not a single-room repair.
- Worked example — A specification we build to, pinned at the municipality centre. Not a client record and not an address.
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Worked examples on this map
- King West penthouse herringboneInstallation, King West, Toronto
- Vaughan 4,200 sq ft new buildInstallation, Vaughan
Worked examples are specifications this shop builds to, pinned at the municipality centre — not a client record, not an address, and not a claim that a job happened on your street.
How we do it
The assemblies behind this service, documented step by step.
Nail-down solid hardwood
The default hardwood assembly on a dry wood-framed GTA house.
Glue-down engineered hardwood
The correct engineered assembly on condo slabs and radiant floors.
Floating engineered hardwood
A click-engineered floor that rides on underlayment when the mill requires it.
Moisture mapping before install
The first trade on a hardwood job is measurement, not the nailer.
What this job runs on
The equipment classes this work depends on, and what a shop without each one does instead. Worth reading before you compare quotes.
- Moisture meters and hygrometersThe instruments that decide whether a floor can be installed at all, and the reason this shop will not give a firm number over the phone.
- Flooring nailer and cleat gunThe pneumatic tool that drives fasteners through the tongue of each board at the angle the assembly needs.
- Adhesive system and notched trowelThe urethane adhesive and the specific notch profile that together decide whether a glue-down floor stays down.
- Finish application: T-bar, roller and cut-inThe applicators and the sequence that put a two-component waterborne system on the floor without lap marks, and the cure schedule that follows.
Commissioned illustration of the machine class, not a photograph of our own equipment.