New Bedford Floor Covering Inc

Forty-two years on Union Street, and the word customers keep reaching for is "family." New Bedford Floor Covering sells and installs floors from 455 Union St, and its BBB page puts the start date at January 1984, with ten employees and Cecil Lopes listed as the owner. The written history is small but steady: 18 Google ratings averaging 4.5, with seven reviews people actually typed out. The most detailed came in 2022, from a restaurant owner whose dining room had broken tiles, frost-heaved concrete and uneven rooms — the crew was booked and finished inside a week, and he called the result a gorgeous improvement. Another 2022 customer named the installer, Chris, and said the prices beat the other shops they had walked into. A homeowner writing in April 2026 put it plainly: after dealing with Lowe's, buying flooring from a family-owned business was a relief. Two things sit on the other side. A site that republishes U.S. Department of Labor enforcement records lists an OSHA inspection of New Bedford Floor Covering Sales, Inc. that closed with two citations and $1,554 in proposed penalties. Its Birdeye page also carries a complaint about a long wait. The one low rating on Google has nothing to do with flooring — it concerns where someone spotted a company van, not any job the company did. This is the local storefront model: come in, pick material, have the shop's own installers lay it. The restaurant job shows they can handle a rough subfloor as well as a bedroom carpet, and the 2023 shopper who found a rug out of budget still came away saying the salesperson was helpful. Get the schedule in writing before you sign — the sharpest complaint anyone has left is about waiting, not workmanship.