Celtic Flooring & Restoration

Celtic Flooring & Restoration is an owner-operated hardwood flooring business based in the Haverhill area, run by Paul Kelly, who the company says has 20+ years of experience installing and refinishing hardwood, bamboo and engineered floors with a dust-less sanding system across the Merrimack Valley, North Shore and southern New Hampshire. Every review on record is five stars, and the specifics keep pointing to the same thing: floors that other contractors might pass on. In a 2021 review, a homeowner described 105-year-old attic bedroom floors in bad shape — Paul was upfront about how much work they'd need before turning them around, and another 2021 review described 70-year-old original oak floors, scuffed, water-stained and UV-faded, coming back "better than new". In a 2025 review, a couple who'd bought an antique Salisbury home with 300-to-400-year-old wide pine floors said the prep took more than expected, but Paul still finished as quoted and on schedule. Recent reviews from this spring and summer describe the same pattern on newer work — apartment buildings and a historic home where he's returned for multiple projects, keeping to deadlines and leaving the space clean, and a straightforward floor install finished quickly and cleanly. Pricing comes up repeatedly across reviews as reasonable or fair for the specialty work involved. For an older or unusual hardwood floor — historic house, antique wide pine, decades of wear — this is a specialist worth calling, particularly in the Haverhill/Merrimack Valley area his site lists as his territory.