Premium Flooring, Expertly Installed
Beautiful Floors,
Built to Last
Hardwood, luxury vinyl, tile, and refinishing installed with precision throughout the Treasure Valley.
What We Install
Flooring Done Right, Start to Finish
From heirloom hardwood to waterproof luxury vinyl, we install the surfaces that define a home — with the prep, precision, and finish detail that make them last.
Hardwood Flooring
Solid white oak, hickory, and maple — acclimated on site for Idaho's dry climate.
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Luxury Vinyl Plank
Waterproof, wood-look LVP that shrugs off snow boots, pets, and busy households.
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Engineered Hardwood
Real-wood wear layers on a stable core — built for dry winters and radiant heat.
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Tile Flooring
Porcelain and ceramic tile set flat and level — snow-country entries included.
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Laminate Flooring
Tough, realistic laminate that stretches a flooring budget without looking like it.
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Floor Refinishing
Sand, stain, and refinish tired hardwood instead of tearing it out.
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Have questions? Start with a free in-home consultation.
Your project gets a single point of contact — the person who walks your space, measures, and gives you an honest estimate stays with you through the final walkthrough.
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One Point of Contact
The person who walks your space and measures is the person who answers your questions — from estimate to final walkthrough.
No Call Centers
You won't be handed between departments or re-explain your project to a stranger halfway through.
An Honest Estimate
We measure, explain your options plainly, and tell you when a cheaper product is the right call. No pressure, no obligation.
Why Alderwood Flooring
Why Homeowners Choose Us
A flooring company built on precision, honesty, and floors that still look right a decade later.
Craftsmanship
Every plank measured, racked, and set by hand. The details — transitions, reveals, trim — are where a floor is won or lost.
Premium Materials
We install trusted, name-brand flooring built to perform — and we help you choose the right product for how you actually live.
Clear Communication
One accountable team, honest scheduling, and a tidy job site. You always know what's happening and what comes next.
Guaranteed Quality
Professional installation backed by our workmanship warranty. We stand behind the floors we put in your home.
Recent Work
Real Floors, Real Homes
A look at recent hardwood and luxury vinyl installations across the Treasure Valley — every board our own work.
How It Works
A Calm, Organized Process
Seven clear steps from first visit to finished floor — no surprises, no mess left behind.
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In-Home Consultation
We visit, listen, and assess your space, subfloor, and goals.
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Measurements
Precise measurements and a clear, honest written estimate.
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Material Selection
We help you choose the right product, color, and finish.
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Floor Preparation
Demo, moisture checks, and leveling — the work that lasts.
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Professional Installation
Careful, tidy installation by one accountable crew.
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Final Walkthrough
We review every detail together until it's right.
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Warranty & Care
Backed by our workmanship warranty, with a care guide.
Material Collections
Find the Floor You've Been Picturing
Explore the woods, tiles, and textures we install most — then let us help you choose the one that fits your home and your life.
Service Areas
Proudly Serving the Treasure Valley
Based in Boise, ID, we install floors throughout the Treasure Valley & Boise Metro.
Ada County · Canyon County · Gem County · Elmore County · McCall & the Payette Lakes
For Business
Flooring for Builders, Developers & Property Managers
Beyond homeowners, we run dedicated programs for the people who build, develop, own, and manage property across the Treasure Valley.
Home Builders
Per-plan takeoffs, spec packages, and phase-window scheduling for production communities.
See the programDevelopers
Ground-up multifamily & mixed-use — spec coordination, unit packages, and draw-aligned billing.
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Fast unit turns, one durable community standard, and portfolio pricing that holds.
See the programProperty Managers
Turn SLAs, standardized SKUs, and owner-ready documentation across every door.
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Plan With Confidence
Straight answers to the questions homeowners actually ask before a flooring project.
Idaho Climate · 7 min read
Wood Floors in Idaho's Dry Climate: What to Actually Expect
Boise's high-desert air is hard on solid wood — winter gaps are normal physics, not a defect. Here's how acclimation, humidification, and product choice really work here.
Idaho Climate · 6 min read
Slab Moisture Testing in Treasure Valley New Builds
New concrete holds construction moisture long after move-in — even in the high desert. What calcium chloride and RH-probe testing actually measure, and why we test before we install.
Materials · 7 min read
Radiant Floor Heat and Flooring: What Works and Why
Radiant heat is a natural fit for Idaho winters — but the floor over it has to be chosen for heat, not just looks. Engineered wood, LVP, and tile compared honestly.
Buying Guide · 6 min read
Builder-Grade LVP: When to Keep It and When to Upgrade
Most new Treasure Valley homes come with the LVP the builder's allowance covered — not the LVP you'd choose. An honest framework for deciding whether it stays.
Buying Guide · 6 min read
Mudroom & Entry Flooring for Idaho Winters
The first six feet inside your door take the worst abuse in the house — meltwater, sanding grit, and de-icer residue. What actually survives an Idaho entry.
Cost & Value · 6 min read
Hardwood vs. LVP for Boise-Area Resale: An Honest Comparison
Does real wood actually help a Treasure Valley home sell? A no-invented-statistics look at how each floor reads to buyers — and when the answer is 'it depends on the house.'
Homeowner Tips · 7 min read
Refinishing Oak Floors in Older Boise Homes
Under the carpet of a lot of Bench and North End homes is original oak waiting for a second life. What sanding actually reveals, what it fixes, and what it honestly can't.
Materials · 6 min read
Wide-Plank Floors in a Dry Climate: Movement Honesty
Wide planks are the look everyone wants — and width multiplies wood movement in Idaho's dry winters. How to get the look without the regret.
Buying Guide · 6 min read
Pet & Kid-Proof Flooring: An Honest Durability Ranking
Claws, spills, dropped toys, and the mystery puddle — a qualitative ranking of how the common floors hold up to real family life, with the caveats the ads leave out.
Buying Guide · 6 min read
Tile for Idaho Bathrooms and Mudrooms — and Why Heated Floors Change Everything
Tile's only real flaw in Idaho is that it's cold seven months a year. Electric floor heat fixes that — here's how to get tile right in the state's two wettest rooms.
Mountain Homes · 7 min read
Flooring for McCall Cabins and Mountain Homes: Elevation Changes the Rules
A second home at 5,000 feet that sits empty half the winter is the hardest environment a floor can live in. What holds up in cabin country — and what to skip.
Process & Trust · 7 min read
How to Read a Flooring Quote: What Should Be On It and What's a Red Flag
Two quotes for the 'same' job can describe completely different projects. A line-by-line guide to what a real flooring quote includes — and the omissions that cost you later.
Process & Trust · 7 min read
New-Construction Flooring in Idaho: Timing and Teamwork
Flooring is one of the last trades in a new build — and the decisions behind it happen months earlier. Where floors fit in the schedule, and how to work with your builder instead of around them.
Materials · 7 min read
Engineered vs. Solid Hardwood in Idaho: Picking a Format
Both are real wood on top — the difference is everything underneath. How construction, subfloor, and refinishing math decide the format question for Treasure Valley homes.
Homeowner Tips · 6 min read
How Long Does Flooring Acclimation Really Take?
Three days? Two weeks? The honest answer is that acclimation ends at a measurement, not a date — here's the schedule question answered the way installers actually work it.
Buying Guide · 6 min read
LVP Wear Layers Explained: What the Mil Number Means
Two vinyl planks can look identical and be a decade apart in lifespan. The wear layer is the spec that decides it — here's how to read the mil number like an installer.
Homeowner Tips · 6 min read
Why Floors Squeak in Treasure Valley Homes
A squeak is wood moving against something it shouldn't — and the age of your house predicts the cause. Squeaks by housing era, what actually fixes them, and what honesty requires us to say.
Cost & Value · 6 min read
Refinish or Replace Hardwood Floors? The Decision Math
Wear-through, prior sand count, damaged-board share — the refinish-or-replace call comes down to a handful of measurable factors. Here's the framework, without the sales thumb on the scale.
Buying Guide · 7 min read
Flooring and Indoor Air Quality: What Labels Mean
CARB, TSCA Title VI, FloorScore, low-VOC — flooring's air-quality alphabet decoded honestly: which labels are legal baselines, which are real certifications, and where the finishes fit in.
Idaho Climate · 6 min read
Winter Flooring Installs in Idaho: Yes, With Conditions
Can floors go in during an Idaho winter? Absolutely — if the heat is on, the humidity is managed, and the material gets its time. The conditions that make cold-season installs succeed.
Developer Guides · 11 min read
Multifamily Flooring Spec Guide (Treasure Valley)
A complete, engineering-grounded flooring specification for new multifamily construction in the Boise metro: unit-type packages, acoustic baselines, slab moisture by level, submittals, mockups, and value engineering that protects the resident experience.
Property Management · 10 min read
Apartment Unit-Turn Flooring Playbook
A working playbook for flooring on apartment unit turns in the Treasure Valley: vacancy-day math, one community standard, repair-and-blend decisions, and scheduling so the floor never holds a unit off the market.
Multifamily Technical · 9 min read
Acoustic Flooring for Apartments: IIC & STC
Footfall and airborne noise between stacked apartments come down to two ratings — IIC and STC — and the layers beneath the finish floor. Here is the real engineering behind acoustic assemblies, from ASTM test methods to perimeter isolation to the gap between lab and field.
Multifamily Technical · 10 min read
Commercial-Grade LVT Specs for Rentals & Multifamily
A practical guide to reading LVT specs for rental duty: wear-layer mils, SPC vs WPC cores, ASTM F1700 and F3261 classifications, waterproof-core caveats, and how warranties quietly change for multifamily and commercial use.
Multifamily Technical · 11 min read
Slab Moisture & Multifamily Flooring (ASTM F2170)
Slab moisture is the number-one cause of multifamily flooring failure. Here is how it is really tested under ASTM F2170 and F1869, why Treasure Valley ground-floor and podium slabs move vapor year-round, and how the right adhesive, membrane, or floating assembly changes by level.
Builder Guides · 11 min read
Home Builder's Guide to Flooring Allowances
How production and semi-custom builders structure flooring allowances and manage buyer upgrades: allowance math, design-center tiers, schedule and margin protection, change tracking, and a base package that orders cleanly across a whole community.
Property Management · 11 min read
Corridor & Common-Area Flooring for Apartments
A specifier's guide to choosing hallway, stair, lobby, and amenity flooring for Treasure Valley apartment communities — traffic classes, DCOF slip resistance, corridor acoustics, snowy-entry transitions, and phasing work in an occupied, leasing building.
Developer Guides · 11 min read
Progress Billing & Draw Schedules (Multifamily)
How the flooring line item reconciles with construction finance in Treasure Valley multifamily: schedule of values, AIA G702/G703 pay applications, retainage, lien waivers, and phased billing that tracks the lender draw schedule cleanly.
Property Management · 11 min read
LVP vs. Carpet in Rentals: Total Cost of Ownership
A turn-by-turn cost model comparing luxury vinyl plank and carpet in Treasure Valley rentals — replacement frequency, per-turn labor, waterproofing, and the cases where carpet still pencils out.
Multifamily Technical · 10 min read
Low-Emission Flooring: CARB Phase 2 & TSCA Title VI
What CARB Phase 2 and EPA TSCA Title VI actually require of composite-wood flooring, how FloorScore certification works, and why formaldehyde control matters most in tight, winter-sealed Idaho apartments. A practical guide to specifying and documenting low-emission floors.
Developer Guides · 11 min read
Multifamily Flooring Budgets & Per-Door Costs
How to build a realistic per-door flooring budget for a Treasure Valley multifamily project, from product tier and prep to allowances, stairs, and honest value engineering that protects durability.
Multifamily Technical · 11 min read
Senior & Assisted-Living Flooring
How to specify flooring for senior and assisted-living communities in the Treasure Valley — balancing wet slip resistance, rolling loads, cleanability, acoustics, aging vision, and flush, trip-free transitions.
Property Management · 9 min read
Student Housing Flooring
How to specify flooring that survives student housing — brutal wear, compressed academic-calendar turns, acoustics between stacked units, and repair-friendly systems built for high tenant turnover.
Multifamily Technical · 11 min read
Subfloor Prep & Flatness Standards
Flatness tolerances, moisture testing, and fastening are what separate a floor that lasts from the callback nobody wants. Here is how subfloor prep actually works on a multifamily job in the Treasure Valley.
Builder Guides · 9 min read
Flooring Sequencing in Production Homes
Where flooring belongs in the production-home build sequence, and why the order of trim, cabinets, paint, and HVAC decides whether the finished floor holds up or fails.
Property Management · 10 min read
Attic Stock & Warranty for Portfolios
The unglamorous discipline that keeps a multi-property flooring portfolio consistent: reserving attic stock, tracking dye lots and warranties by property, and documenting condition so a repair five years out still matches.
Developer Guides · 11 min read
Mixed-Use & Ground-Floor Retail Flooring
How to spec flooring for a mixed-use building in the Treasure Valley, where ground-floor retail and residential units stack in one structure but demand entirely different products, acoustics, and moisture strategies.
Multifamily Technical · 11 min read
Concrete Moisture Mitigation Systems
How topical epoxy moisture-mitigation systems work, the RH readings that justify one under ASTM F2170 and F3010, and the cost-vs-risk math that makes mitigating a wet multifamily slab smarter than hoping it dries.
Multifamily Technical · 10 min read
Carpet Tile for Multifamily & Common Areas
Where modular carpet tile earns its place in multifamily buildings — corridors, clubhouses, and offices — and how panel-by-panel replaceability, acoustic performance, and wear ratings stack up against broadloom and hard surface.
Builder Guides · 11 min read
Reducing Builder Flooring Warranty Callbacks
Most first-year flooring callbacks in new production homes trace back to a handful of preventable installation and jobsite decisions. Here is what actually causes them in the Treasure Valley climate, and the field practices that keep warranty season quiet.
Developer Guides · 11 min read
Build-to-Rent (BTR) Community Flooring
How to specify flooring for build-to-rent and single-family-rental communities in the Treasure Valley: a for-sale look with rental durability, standardized so future turns and repairs stay consistent across every home.
Property Management · 11 min read
Flooring Maintenance Programs for Communities
A practical framework for keeping community flooring in service longer: cleaning cadences, hard-surface and carpet maintenance, refinish-versus-replace decisions, and how a proactive program lowers turn costs across a portfolio.
Multifamily Technical · 11 min read
ADA & Accessibility Flooring Requirements
How accessibility rules shape multifamily and commercial flooring — threshold heights, firm and slip-resistant surfaces, carpet pile limits, and DCOF. What the ADA Standards, ANSI A117.1, and ANSI A326.3 actually require.
Multifamily Technical · 9 min read
Fitness & Amenity Flooring for Communities
Community gyms, clubhouses, and pet spas each demand a different floor. Here's how to specify rubber, resilient, and wet-room systems for impact, acoustics, and Idaho moisture — so the amenity survives a decade and helps lease the building.
Property Management · 11 min read
Short-Term Rental & Hospitality Flooring
How to spec flooring for short-term rentals, hospitality units, and McCall mountain properties — waterproof, scratch-resistant, quiet, and fast to clean between guests, engineered for Idaho's dry winters and freeze-thaw cycles.
Multifamily Technical · 11 min read
Crawlspace Moisture & Older Multifamily Floors
How vapor from unconditioned crawlspaces cups and delaminates floors in older Treasure Valley garden apartments — and how to specify assemblies that tolerate a damp crawl instead of trapping moisture.
Multifamily Technical · 10 min read
Building Code & Flooring: IBC for Multifamily
A plain-spoken walk through the building-code side of multifamily flooring in Idaho: IBC Section 1206 sound ratings (IIC/STC 50), ASTM E648 flammability classes for corridors and exits, and how code shapes assemblies in units, stairs, and shared spaces.
Developer Guides · 11 min read
Flooring Procurement & Lead Times at Scale
How to procure flooring for a large Treasure Valley project without supply surprises: realistic lead times, allocation and buffer stock, guarding against discontinuations and dye-lot drift, and sequencing orders to your build or turn schedule.
Multifamily Technical · 11 min read
Sustainable Flooring & LEED for Multifamily
How low-emission flooring, recycled content, and Environmental Product Declarations earn LEED and green-building credits on multifamily projects — and exactly which documents your reporting team needs to pull.
Property Management · 11 min read
Tenant Damage & Flooring Chargebacks
A fair, defensible framework for handling tenant-caused flooring damage: move-in and move-out documentation, useful-life depreciation for deposit deductions, repair-versus-replace scoping, and the records that hold up with owners and in a dispute.
Developer Guides · 9 min read
Affordable & LIHTC Housing Flooring
How to specify flooring for affordable and LIHTC developments in the Treasure Valley: budget-conscious product that survives a 15-plus-year compliance hold, standardized across large unit counts, and balanced for the lowest lifetime cost.
Developer Guides · 10 min read
Medical Office & Clinic Flooring
A practical guide to flooring for medical office buildings and outpatient clinics: heat-welded sheet vinyl and seamless assemblies for infection control, slip resistance, rolling-load durability, integral coving, and the substrate testing a healthcare tenant improvement demands.
Multifamily Technical · 11 min read
Hotel & Hospitality Flooring
A zone-by-zone engineering guide to hotel flooring — guest rooms, corridors, lobbies, and back-of-house — covering acoustic separation, brand-standard durability, moisture and slab testing, and how to phase a renovation of an occupied property without losing room revenue.
Developer Guides · 11 min read
Self-Storage & Light Industrial Flooring
How sealed and coated concrete, epoxy systems, and slab moisture control shape durable, cleanable floors for self-storage, flex, and light-industrial buildings in the Treasure Valley — plus the office and amenity areas inside the same shell.
Builder Guides · 11 min read
How GCs Should Bid the Flooring Scope
A general contractor's field guide to scoping and comparing flooring bids in the Treasure Valley — what a complete bid contains, how allowances hide risk, and how to force apples-to-apples numbers before the low bid grows into change orders.
Multifamily Technical · 11 min read
Flooring Workmanship Standards
A measured look at real flooring workmanship tolerances — gaps, overwood and lippage, hollow spots, and pattern alignment — and how naming NWFA and ASTM standards in the spec separates a normal characteristic from a genuine defect at walkthrough.
Developer Guides · 11 min read
Flooring for Modular & Offsite Construction
How flooring gets split between the factory and the field in modular and prefab builds — what to install where, how to detail marriage-line seams, and how to protect factory floors through transport and set. Written for Treasure Valley developers and builders.
Multifamily Technical · 11 min read
Memory Care & Skilled Nursing Flooring
Flooring for memory care and skilled nursing is a clinical and cognitive problem, not a finish selection. This guide covers infection control, wet-slip resistance under ANSI A326.3, glare and contrast for impaired vision, wander-safe wayfinding, and rolling-load durability.
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