Chaves Flooring Inc.

Chaves Flooring is a Lynn outfit that works the commercial side of the trade first — the sheet vinyl in a clinic corridor, VCT in a factory, carpet tile through an office floor — and takes residential work alongside it. The company says it has been family-owned and operated since 2002, with roots in Somerville and Chelsea, and it both sells the material and puts it down, which is the distinction that matters here: this is an installer, not a showroom passing you to a subcontractor. The range it advertises is wide for a shop this size — hardwood, laminate, luxury vinyl and VCT, tile, carpet and carpet tile, polished concrete, epoxy — plus the unglamorous prep that decides whether a floor lasts: sub-floor preparation, moisture testing, repairs and replacement. The review history is thin. Six reviews spread from 2023 to 2026 across a handful of sites, with a 4.9 average on Google over 11 ratings. What people write is short and consistent rather than detailed: professional, clean work, fair price. The most recent one, from January, says the same — very professional, good quality of the job. That is a real pattern, but six comments in three years is not much of a track record to lean on, and none of them describe a job in enough detail to tell you how the company handles a floor that goes wrong. The company's own stated territory is broad — Lynn and the North Shore, but also Somerville, Chelsea, and out to Philadelphia — so worth confirming that a residential job in your town actually gets its own crew rather than a scheduling slot between commercial contracts. Good call for commercial and multi-unit flooring where durability and sub-floor prep matter more than a showroom experience. Before booking, ask for photos of recent residential work, get the moisture-testing and prep scope in writing, and confirm current license and insurance yourself.