Celtic Flooring & Restoration

Celtic Flooring & Restoration is one man, and every customer who writes about it writes about him by name. Paul Kelly turns up in all ten accounts on file - quoting the job, running the sander, and, in one 2026 review, being handed the keys to a house and leaving a floor the owner called remarkable. The company works out of Haverhill and says Kelly has over twenty years of experience installing and refinishing hardwood floors with a dust-less system, covering the Merrimack Valley, the North Shore and southern New Hampshire - from Amesbury, Andover and Boxford across to Atkinson, Fremont and Salem in New Hampshire. The work is hardwood, bamboo and engineered wood: installation, restoration, sanding and refinishing. What the record shows is a specialist in old New England floors. A June 2025 customer had an antique home in Salisbury with wide pine boards between 300 and almost 400 years old, and said that although the preparation clearly ran beyond what Kelly anticipated, he finished as quoted and on time. A 2021 reviewer handed him 105-year-old attic bedroom floors and praised him for saying honestly upfront how bad their condition was before turning them around. A January 2026 customer had an 1840s home refinished; a 2021 customer had 70-year-old original oak brought back past what they imagined it looked like new. Price and tidiness are the other constants. Reviewers writing across 2025 and 2026 call the pricing very reasonable and the price fair, and a recent customer this August praised how clean he kept the work area. One 2021 reviewer, who works from home, said they didn't even know he was there half the time - the dust-less system doing what the company claims for it. The main thing to weigh is how thin the written record is: ten reviews spread over five years, all on one platform and all five stars. That is a consistent record rather than a deep one, so there is little to calibrate against. He suits homeowners with antique or badly worn wood floors who want the owner himself doing the work and minimal disruption while it happens. Ask about lead time - one customer specifically praised his - and confirm scope and price in writing before the sanding starts.