Wide-plank hardwood · Harborview & the estuary
Boards wide enough to count.
Broadplank lays hardwood at 200 to 260 millimetres wide — river-recovered oak, estuary barn pine, quarter-sawn ash — acclimated in the rooms they will live in until the moisture meter says go. Wide floors are unforgiving of shortcuts, so we take none.
What we do
Three ways a Broadplank floor happens
The wide-plank lay
Boards this wide want to cup, so they go down over a metered subfloor, secret-nailed and glued, end-matched so the joints scatter instead of lining up. The room reads as one continuous surface — which is the entire point of paying for width.
River-recovered timber
Logs that sank on the way to the mill a century ago, pulled up dense and dark and cold. Slow-grown, tight-grained, and stable in a way modern kiln stock only promises. We keep a rack of it behind the shop and will show you the end grain before you commit.
Old floors, brought back
The estuary is full of houses wearing good floors under bad decisions — carpet, lino, a decade of dark varnish. We sand what is there, repair what is missing, and refinish in tones that respect the age of the house rather than this year's catalogue.
Services & rates
The whole card, per foot and per step
Same card for every address on the estuary. The measure is free, the quote is fixed, and stairs are counted on the day — not estimated from the photographs you send us.
Refinish what is there$4.35 / sq ft
Full dustless cut and three coats
Wide-plank installation$9.40 / sq ft
Solid 200–260 mm, secret-nailed and glued
Stairs, sanded$78 / step
Existing treads stripped and finished to match
Stairs, re-treaded$205 / step
Worn treads out, 42 mm oak in, nosings matched
Board repairsfrom $19 / board
Reclaimed stock, grain-matched, woven flat
Screen & recoat$1.85 / sq ft
One abrade, one topcoat, one day
How it goes
Fourteen days, calendar and meter
The same sequence on every job — the only variable is your project.
Day 0
The measure
We bring the meter, the plank samples and the finish fan-deck. Every choice gets made against real material in your own light, and the fixed quote goes home with you on paper.
Days 1–6
Acclimation
Your boards live in the rooms, stickered and stacked, while we read floor and subfloor twice a day. Beside an estuary the air moves; the boards are allowed to move with it before they are fixed to it.
Days 7–11
The lay
Secret-nailed, glued, end-matched, rows pulled tight with straps and wedges. The last day of the lay is the sand: three cuts, flat as the subfloor beneath it allowed us to make.
Day 12
First finish coat
Vacuumed, tacked and sealed. The floor goes a half-tone darker and suddenly looks like the photograph you were shown — this is the day most owners ring their neighbours.
Days 13–14
Topcoats & handover
Two topcoats a day apart, then the care talk: felt pads, entry mats, the humidity number to keep the house above in winter. The care kit goes home with you.
Every other outfit quoted us the same floor in 130-millimetre boards because "wide planks move". Broadplank pulled three-hundred-year-old oak out of the harbor, let it sit in our rooms for a week, and laid it at 240 wide. Three winters later it is still the flattest thing in the house.
Free measure anywhere on the estuary · (555) 019-7725 · quads@broadplank.example
The shop, counted
Start with the measure
Address, rooms, and whether there is a floor under the carpet — that is all we need to book the visit. Bring questions; the meter, the samples and the honesty are free. quads@broadplank.example