Flooring installation in Edwardsville, IL

As the Madison County seat and home to SIUE, Edwardsville carries two very different housing stories under one zip code. The protected historic district near downtown holds nineteenth-century brick homes with narrow hallways and original heart pine or oak underneath decades of carpet and paint. A few blocks out, the growth since the 1990s along Route 157 and Goshen Road brought ranches, two-story subdivisions and townhomes built on slab or shallow crawlspace. Both kinds of houses come through our shop every month.

What sells here tracks who owns the house. Near campus, landlords and owners of student rentals lean toward tough, budget-friendly laminate and vinyl plank that survives move-out turnover without a full remodel bill. In the family subdivisions south and west of downtown, owner-occupants ask for engineered hardwood in the main living areas and waterproof plank in finished basements, since Goshen Road drainage keeps a few lower levels damp after a hard spring. The historic homes near downtown are where refinishing pays off, since the original wood under old carpet is usually worth saving rather than replacing.

Our sales team drives out for the in-home measure, checks the subfloor or slab, and leaves one written price that covers tear-out, material and installation, not a range that grows later. Our crews are our own, not subcontracted day labor, and our project manager coordinates scheduling so the right installers land on the right job, whether that is a historic district staircase or a Goshen Road great room. We protect floors and doorways on the way in, clean up on the way out, and walk the finished floor with you before we call it done.