Tesoro Floor Covering

Tesoro Floor Covering has been outfitting Braintree-area homes with new floors since 1982 — 44 years under the same ownership, according to its Better Business Bureau file. It's a small operation: owner Jerry (Gerard) Tesoro and three employees handling carpet, ceramic tile, hardwood, and granite or marble tile, with shop-at-home service bringing samples to the customer rather than the other way around. The BBB lists the company at an A+ rating with no complaints on file, though Tesoro hasn't sought BBB accreditation. Independent reviews are scarce online — the closest thing to a documented account describes the owner personally coming out to a customer's home to take measurements for a carpet-removal and wood-floor job after a referral from another flooring shop, the kind of hands-on attention a small, decades-old operation can still offer. There isn't much of a public review trail to size up consistency across jobs, so this is one where a homeowner should ask for a couple of recent references directly rather than lean on star ratings that don't really exist online yet. For a straightforward carpet, tile, or hardwood job in the Braintree area, a business this long-lived with a clean BBB file and an owner who still shows up in person is worth a call — just do your own reference check first, since the online paper trail alone is thin.