Boston Floor Covering

Boston Floor Covering is a showroom first. You walk into the Main Street store in Watertown, someone on the floor — George, Peter or Lee, depending on which review you read — walks you through the options, and samples go home with you. A customer writing in June 2025 described taking four samples home, coming back a couple more times to look, and meeting two different people across those visits before deciding. The store has been family-owned since 2008, selling and installing carpet, vinyl, laminate, hardwood and rubber flooring for homes and commercial spaces around Boston and Watertown. Google carries 22 ratings at 4.8. When customers name the work, it is mostly stairs and basements. Two describe stair runners, one in March 2026 and one in July 2023. In November 2024 a customer had luxury vinyl tile laid in a basement by installers Franklin and Zach and wrote that it ended up looking like hardwood — and that while the same product can be bought elsewhere, the fitting was what made the difference. Another had come back for three separate flooring projects by May 2024; a third wrote in October 2025 that floors replaced a year earlier had stayed perfect. One thing to weigh: an undated post on an online listings page reports a scheduled in-home estimate the company did not turn up for, with no call to say so. Nothing else in the written history echoes it, so confirm your appointment the day before, and ask who will be doing the installation — the reviews that name the installers name Franklin and Zach. For a stair runner, a basement floor, or carpet you would rather choose in person than on a screen, this is a sensible Watertown stop. Bring your measurements, ask what the quoted price covers for installation and taking up the old floor, and get the install date in writing.