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Typical Greater Boston range for this kind of work, from regional averages — not a quote from W R Collins Hardwood Flooring. Use it to sanity-check bids, then get the real number in writing.
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$6,000 – $9,600
Typical flooring project around $7,800
W R Collins Hardwood Flooring is a family-owned hardwood flooring shop working the Winchester/Winchendon area of Massachusetts, and its written record is almost uniformly built around one thing: patch and refinish work that blends seamlessly with a house's existing floors. Houzz and HomeAdvisor both describe the company as family-owned, and the pattern in review after review is repair-minded craftsmanship — reweaving new boards into old hardwood, matching stain and gloss, and running a sanding process customers repeatedly call dustless. The company's Angi and HomeAdvisor pages both show a perfect 5.0 star average across 24 ratings apiece, and Google adds a separate 4.7 star average from 12 ratings — three platforms, no meaningfully mixed reviews among them. The written accounts, mostly dated 2011 to 2014, describe the same pattern again and again: crews who showed up on schedule, finished patch and refinish jobs on time or early, and left almost no dust behind. In a 2013 review, one homeowner described a multi-day project blending a herringbone-pattern bedroom floor with newer flooring elsewhere in the house without a visible seam; another, from 2012, described the company matching salvaged pine boards for a repair rather than pushing a full replacement. A more recent account, in a 2025 Google review, describes a full floor installation and refinish, crediting the crew for staying communicative and sending progress photos throughout. Before calling, it's worth knowing that most of the detailed praise on file dates from over a decade ago — 2011 through 2014 — with only that one fresh account from 2025 bridging the gap, so it's worth asking about the current crew and scheduling rather than assuming the older reviews describe today's team exactly. There's also a small wrinkle in the directory listings themselves: Houzz places the business in Winchester, MA, while Angi and HomeAdvisor place it in Winchendon, MA — the same phone number ties the listings together, but the address is worth confirming before booking. For a homeowner with older hardwood who wants it patched, matched, and refinished rather than torn out and replaced, this is the kind of shop the reviews point to — just worth checking that a decade-old reputation for careful patch work and dustless sanding still holds with whoever answers the phone today.
“W.R. Collins Hardwood Floor Co.; 65 NASHUA, NH – William R. Collins Jr., age 65, a well known area construction tradesman, died unexpectedly on Monday, February 10, at Southern N.H. Medical Center, from complications of the Flu and pneumonia.”
Jason and Phong did an incredible job with our floors! We ripped up carpeting and had some new floors installed as well as old ones refinished. Jason was incredibly communicative and answered all of my questions as they came throughout the process. He sent photos of the progress while we were out of the house. It has made of 1910 home feel more authentic!
The place looks great! It's absolutely beautiful. Bill & Jay do top quality work and a reasonable price. The patch job was phenomenal and there was zero dust in the house after all that sanding. Zero. Very impressive. And talk about punctual, they finished the job more than a week before they had originally said they would! We could not be more pleased with our new floor!
Bill and Jason are total experts at repair, installing and finishing (on time). Very friendly and a pleasure to work with. Showed up on schedule all 4 days and beautiful work!
WR Collins did an excellent job on our house. We found the company through Angies list and they did exactly what we were looking for. We have a two story house and they laid new floors upstairs and refinished floors downstairs while replacing the floors in the living room. I am extremely happy with their work and everyone had a great attitude on the job site. The work was done efficiently. I would recommend them to anybody and if I need work in the future I will be calling them again.
We used W R collins hardwood floor in a kitchen re-do that we did about 2 years ago. They were an outstanding contractor then, and I'm happy to say that they once again provided top quality work and service with our latest rehab project. A previous owner of our house had taken what was once two bedrooms and turned them into one long bedroom. In doing so, they laid some new hardwood flooring in the places where closets and original walls had divided the two rooms. Because of how this was done, there were obvious seams visible where the two different floors came together. We decided to bring the house back to more of its original footprint by separating the one long room back into two to create a bedroom and a dressing room / home office. When it came to the floors, we knew right away that we wanted to hire Bill Collins again based on our outstanding prior experience with him and his company. Bill Collins came out promptly to look the job over. It was a little complicated in that the original floors in what was to become the bedroom had a herringbone pattern that we really liked. Because of the age of the house, there were gaps between the boards here and there and even a few nicks. We really didn't mind the look of the old floors and weren't ready to do all the flooring over again so we decided just to refinish them. However, they were butted up against newer flooring (of a different width), and in on section, both the old and new floors needed some patching to eliminate an unsightly seam between the two floors. Bill and Jason were able to use new material and patch the floors so that the original floor pattern was unbroken and so that the new and old floors blended in perfectly. I know its hard to visualize without pictures, but take my word for it, they did a great job. They also made sure to install the new boards so that the ends would be covered by the wall baseboard, completely masking the patch. When it came time for them to refinish the floors, they worked with us closely to fit our schedule, working directly with our other subs to coordinate efforts, and even giving us a heads-up when a blizzard threatened the completion date - BIll called ahead of time to tell me that he was concerned that the weather might prevent them from coming, and then recommended schedule changes that would work for both him and our other subs. Sure enough, the blizzard came, but thanks to Bill's pro-active thinking, we still hit our schedule. And of course, the floors looked great when they were finished. They also do a good job putting up plastic to keep the dust to a minimum in the rest of the house, and are careful not to track dust through the house as they bring equipment in and out. I thought that Bill's price was very fair considering the quality of his work, his flexibility and the concern he has for his customers. We expected that he would do a great job based on our previous work with him, and he did not disappoint. From our experiences with him, I highly recommend that if you are considering any hardwood floor work (from installation to refinishing), you should definitely consider having Collins Hardwood Flooring come and give you a quote.
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