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Hardwood flooring prices in Toronto

Ecowoods Hardwood Flooring Inc. publishes three price bands for hardwood work in Toronto & the GTA, each per square foot in Canadian dollars: a screen and recoat at $2.50–$4.00, a full sand and finish at $4.75–$7.50, and new hardwood supplied and installed at $11.00–$18.00. The same three bands are published for New York State in US dollars — $2.00–$3.25 USD, $4.00–$6.25 USD and $9.25–$15.00 USD — with the border crossing already inside them. A band is an informational range, not a quote. The fixed price is written after a free in-home measure, and it does not move afterwards.

Published bands

The three bands

Three published price bands drawn to scale as horizontal bars: a screen and recoat, a full sand and finish, and a new hardwood install, each longer than the last.
The three bands, drawn to scale against each other. A band is an informational range, not a quote — the figures themselves are on the table below, and the fixed price is written after the free in-home measure.View full size — Three published price bands drawn to scale as horizontal bars: a screen and recoat, a full sand and finish, and a new hardwood install, each longer than the last.
Published price bands, per square foot, in CAD, before tax
Service bandPrice per sq ft (CAD)What it covers
Screen & Recoat$2.50–$4.00Abrade the existing finish and apply fresh coats without taking the floor to bare wood.
Full Sand & Finish$4.75–$7.50Sand to bare wood, stain where specified, and apply the finish system. Priced in this band: Hardwood Floor Refinishing, Hardwood Floor Restoration, Stair Refinishing.
New Hardwood Install$11.00–$18.00Solid or engineered hardwood supplied and installed over a prepared, moisture-tested substrate. Priced in this band: Hardwood Flooring Installation.

Stairs, transitions, furniture moving, removal of existing flooring and moisture mitigation are itemised separately in the written estimate. Nothing above is a starting-from number: the band is the whole published range.

Five scopes of hardwood work drawn as bands on a single cost axis so their ranges can be compared directly.
Five scopes on one axis. A screen and recoat and a full sand and finish are different jobs at different prices, and a quote that does not say which one it is for cannot be compared to anything.View full size — Five scopes of hardwood work drawn as bands on a single cost axis so their ranges can be compared directly.
Three different jobs side by side: screen and recoat where the finish film is intact, a full sand where the wood must be taken back to bare, and a new install where the floor cannot be saved or the room is new.
These are three different jobs, not three price points for one job. Which one a floor needs is decided by the wear layer and the finish, and it is decided at the measure.View full size — Three different jobs side by side: screen and recoat where the finish film is intact, a full sand where the wood must be taken back to bare, and a new install where the floor cannot be saved or the room is new.
A conceptual triptych: an intact finish, a floor sanded back to bare wood, and new boards over a subfloor.
Conceptual illustration of the three scopes, not three photographs of one Ecowoods project. The published jobs with their measurements are in the case studies.View full size — A conceptual triptych: an intact finish, a floor sanded back to bare wood, and new boards over a subfloor.

New York State

The same three bands, in US dollars

Ecowoods works across western New York — the Buffalo–Niagara, Buffalo metro and Rochester east routes. The work is the same work and the crews are the same salaried employees; the price is published in the currency of the country the floor is in.

Published price bands, per square foot, in USD, before tax
Service bandPrice per sq ftWhat it covers
Screen & Recoat$2.00–$3.25 USDAbrade the existing finish and apply fresh coats without taking the floor to bare wood.
Full Sand & Finish$4.00–$6.25 USDSand to bare wood, stain where specified, and apply the finish system. Priced in this band: Hardwood Floor Refinishing, Hardwood Floor Restoration, Stair Refinishing.
New Hardwood Install$9.25–$15.00 USDSolid or engineered hardwood supplied and installed over a prepared, moisture-tested substrate. Priced in this band: Hardwood Flooring Installation.

The border crossing and the travel from the Toronto shop are already inside these bands. There is no mobilisation line, no distance surcharge and nothing added after the measure — and there is no second address, telephone number or crew in New York State: the shop and the showroom are at 32 Norfield Crescent in Toronto. What travels is the work.

Inside the band

What moves the number

Each band is a range because the work inside it varies. These are the conditions that decide where a job lands, band by band. The estimator confirms them on site, not from a phone description.

  • $2.50–$4.00 per sq ft

    Screen & Recoat

    • Applies when the existing finish is intact and the wood does not need to be exposed.
    • Not possible once the finish has worn through to bare wood or the floor has deep scratches, stains or grey boards.
    • Furniture moving, stairs and transitions are priced separately in the written estimate.
  • $4.75–$7.50 per sq ft

    Full Sand & Finish

    • Sand to bare wood, optional stain, and finish coats.
    • Requires enough remaining wear layer to sand; the estimator measures it during the in-home visit.
    • Species, stain colour, board repairs, stairs and the finish system move the number within the band.
  • $11.00–$18.00 per sq ft

    New Hardwood Install

    • Supply and installation of solid or engineered hardwood.
    • Species, plank width, pattern (straight-lay, herringbone, chevron), substrate preparation and moisture mitigation move the number within the band.
    • Removal of existing flooring, levelling and stairs are itemised separately in the written estimate.

The commodity inputs behind the bands — lumber, finish and labour — are tracked on what moves a hardwood quote, and the decision guide How much does hardwood flooring cost in Toronto and the GTA? sets out what a quote inside these bands should itemise.

From band to number

The fixed written price

Fixed price in writing. It never moves after the free in-home estimate.

The path from a band to a number is a visit. A senior estimator comes to the house, moisture-tests the floor and the subfloor, measures the rooms and the stairs, and writes one price with a committed schedule. That written price is the contract price; there is no unforeseen-conditions clause to reopen it later. Request the free in-home estimate to start.

Already holding two or three quotes? Before comparing the totals, check whether they are pricing the same work — most of the time they are not. Put them side by side, line by line. It runs in your browser; nothing is uploaded and no quote is ranked.

Where each service sits: Hardwood Flooring Installation — New Hardwood Install · Hardwood Floor Refinishing — Full Sand & Finish · Dust-Free Floor Sanding — quoted per project · Hardwood Floor Restoration — Full Sand & Finish · Stair Refinishing — Full Sand & Finish · Custom Inlays & Borders — quoted per project.

When this is quoted per project

Two services carry no published band, because the work does not reduce to an area: Dust-Free Floor Sanding and Custom Inlays & Borders. Custom inlays are priced on the pattern, the species and the cutting; dust-free sanding is a containment method inside a refinishing scope rather than a separate line. Both are quoted per project after the in-home measure, on the same fixed-in-writing terms as everything else.

What the price buys is documented job by job in the case studies, with the readings taken before the work started; what customers said afterwards is cited to source on reviews.

The menu, published.

Why pricing feels mysterious — and the menu that isn’t.

Two short explainers: what makes renovation pricing opaque elsewhere, and the six-line menu this shop publishes instead.

Why pricing feels mysterious — and the menu that isn’t. — poster
Renovation pricing looks arbitrary from the outside. The six published bands are how this shop makes it not.

Long-form.

Fixed-price flooring through software logic

38:28

A 38-minute audio piece on the reasoning behind the published price bands.

The question behind this page

Asked most often

How much does hardwood flooring cost in Toronto?
Installed ranges typically run about $11.00–$18.00 per sq ft for new hardwood, $4.75–$7.50 for full sand and finish, and $2.50–$4.00 for a screen and recoat — before stairs, transitions, or moisture remediation. Species, pattern, and substrate move the number. The fixed price is written after a free in-home measure, not from a phone quote.

Turn a band into a number

Get the fixed written price

The bands above are real ranges, not a starting-from number. Book the free in-home measure below, or call (647) 244-5156 and speak to the office.

Book the free in-home measure

A senior estimator measures and moisture-tests, then writes one price. It does not move afterwards.

or call (647) 244-5156

No obligation, no pressure, and we do not sell your details. The in-home measurement is free and the written price does not move afterwards.

Next step

What does this cost?

That is what this page is for. When you are ready to move, this is the next thing worth doing — not a quote, unless a quote is what you came for.

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