Solid Hardwood In
Marthasville, Where The
Ground Decides First

82.8 percent of Marthasville's occupied housing units are owner occupied, spread across 721 units in a town of 0.854 square miles. Solid wood is fastened to the building rather than laid over it, so what decides the job here is this town's ground and the fact that most of these houses are lived in by the people who own them. How the wood itself behaves is on the hardwood pillar, and the town is on the Marthasville page. Call 636-332-0654.

Which side of the bluff line the house sits on

Marthasville sits back from the Missouri River on a bluff, and Warren County's Master Plan treats the floodplain as a constraint on the city, noting it would most likely only annex along the bluffs or to the north toward Warrenton. That is not scenery once you are fastening a floor down. A house up on the bluff side and a house on lower ground toward the bottoms are not offering the same conditions underneath. The record on low ground here is specific: the Flanders Callaway House, a two story walnut hewn-log frontier house south of town off Route 94, was recorded in its National Register nomination as sitting on the Missouri River flood plain and as having suffered flood damage throughout its history. So the first thing we want established at a Marthasville address is which side of that line the house is on.

A floor going into a house somebody is living in

82.8 percent owner occupied, across 721 units, means the usual hardwood job in this town happens around a household that is not going anywhere while it happens. That changes the sequence more than it changes the specification. Rooms come out in an order rather than all at once, so there is somewhere to put the furniture and somewhere to sleep while a room is open. The old covering leaves the property the day it comes up instead of sitting in a garage until the end of the job. And a nailed floor is not a surface you step around while it is half laid, so a room that is closed for the day is closed for the day. We agree that order at the measure rather than on the first morning, and it is the part of the plan people are most grateful for afterwards.

The boards travel 24.7 miles and then have to sit still

Marthasville is 24.7 road miles and about 37 minutes southwest of the showroom, and solid wood is the material where that distance enters the schedule rather than just the appointment. Boards are delivered to the house before they are fastened, and they need time in the house, in the conditions the house actually runs at, before a fastener goes through them. That is a delivery trip and an install trip, sequenced, rather than one crew arriving with the truck still warm. We set that sequence at the measure and give you the dates then.

721 units on 0.854 square miles, and what that does to access

721 housing units inside 0.854 square miles is a town of ordinary lots and short blocks rather than acreage and long private drives. For a hardwood job that is mostly good news: material comes off a truck at the curb and goes in through a front door on a street, without a half mile of gravel between the delivery and the room. It also means the rooms tend to be defined rather than continuous, so board direction and thresholds are decided doorway by doorway. We note the run direction of every room at the measure, because a solid floor that changes direction at the wrong opening is something you notice every day afterward.

The older half of the stock, and the room it gained later

10.0 percent of Marthasville's housing went up in the 1990s, a decade sitting right on top of the town's 1988 median. Houses from either side of that line are the common case here, and they generally give a fastened floor something workable to sit on. What they are not is identical to each other. A house from the older half of the stock has often gained a room along the way, and an addition does not always sit at exactly the same height as the room it opens off. Where that is true we would rather find it at the measure and design the transition than have it improvised on the day.

Wood you can read the grain on before you commit to it

We carry Portercraft, Paramount, Hartco, Jackson Hardwood, Casabella, Hudson Collection, Durango and National Flooring Products. Solid wood is the material where seeing a full board matters most, because grain, character and the way a finish sits down into it do not survive a photograph. Bring a photo of the room and, if you can, a piece of your existing trim: in a stock that spans two build eras the woodwork already in the room is usually what the new floor has to live beside. What actually moves the number is set out on hardwood cost factors.

Where solid wood should give way to something else in this stock

Solid wood is not the right answer to every room in a Marthasville house, and where it is not, the reason here is usually the one this page opened with. The rule about where a nailed floor belongs is the hardwood pillar's to state, and it states it plainly. What this page can add is which houses raise the question at all, and out here that is the ones sitting on the lower ground rather than up on the bluff side, which is why luxury vinyl plank in Marthasville comes into the conversation as often as it does. Bedrooms are a separate question with a separate answer, and carpet in Marthasville covers those. A plan that runs wood through the living room and the main path of the house and puts something else at either end of it is common in this stock, and there is nothing second best about it.

What gets checked before a single board is ordered

Before anything is ordered we want to know what the floor is going onto and what it is going next to. We look at the deck wherever it can be reached, at what sits under the joists, at the height of every doorway and every place the new floor will meet an existing one, take the room dimensions properly, and write down anything that has to be corrected first. The in-home measure is free and it happens at your address. For a fastened floor it is the difference between a schedule that holds and one that quietly slips. Call 636-332-0654.