Guido's Soft Step Floor Covering

The father shows you carpet samples in the shop and comes out to measure; the son lays it. That division of labour turns up in review after review of Guido's Soft Step Floor Covering, and it has been going on a while — the Better Business Bureau records the business as starting on 1 January 1987, thirty-nine years ago, and the company's own site calls it a family-owned and operated team. It is a shop as much as an installer. From 271 West Boylston Street it sells and fits carpet, hardwood, laminate, vinyl plank and tile, waterproof, bamboo and cork, alongside area rugs, floor cleaning products and carpet and rug binding. Moving your furniture is part of the install. The BBB page is an A+, accredited since May 2021, and the business is a member of the National Wood Flooring Association. The written record is small, but it is consistent and it has repeat business in it. One customer wrote in June 2024 about their second Guido's install in the same raised ranch — upstairs in 2017, twelve hundred square feet downstairs in 2024, plus an entry runner bound from the same carpet at their request. Another in July 2025 had basement carpet and engineered vinyl click flooring across the whole first floor, and reported a year on that it still looked new with zero issues. A March 2026 customer had kitchen, bathroom and family room done, with the original kitchen floor repaired rather than torn out, and noted the crew left the rooms spotless each day. What to weigh. This is a thin file: fifteen written reviews across five years and 23 Google ratings, all on one platform. That 4.8 average means a few of those ratings sit below five with nobody saying why. Note too that Massachusetts exempts floor-covering-only contractors from home improvement contractor registration, so there is no state licence to check here — normal for the trade, not a gap. For carpet or a vinyl-plank floor in central Massachusetts, this is the small local shop that has been doing it since 1987. Ask about the binding service if you want a runner to match the room.