Wood Flooring in Nutley, NJ

The median home here dates to 1952 and about 79.8% of the housing predates 1978 — the two facts that shape most flooring work in this town.

What Nutley floors are usually made of

With a median build year of 1952 and 33.7% of homes predating 1940, Nutley has a genuinely mixed housing stock — which means the floor has to be identified before the work is scoped.

A mixed-era town is the hardest one to generalise about. Two houses on the same street in Nutley can have completely different floors under the finish: original narrow board in one, postwar red oak strip in the other.

We do not assume. Wear layer, board width and species get checked on site, because the answer changes the method and the price.

Services we provide in Nutley

Every service below is the same crew and the same method used across Essex County — the page for each one says what it involves in Nutley specifically.

How Nutley compares

Housing here runs about 4 years older than the Essex County median of 1956.

At 79.8% pre-1978, Nutley sits in the oldest quarter of the 185 towns we serve. Neighbouring Montclair is a different picture — median 1938 against 1952 here — which is why we quote by address rather than by area. Nutley is about 37 miles from our base in Eatontown.

Housing data for Nutley

These are the Census figures behind everything above — published so you can check them rather than take our word for it.

Source: US Census Bureau, ACS 2023 5-Year Estimates. See the full dataset.

Lead-safe requirements in Nutley

About 79.8% of Nutley homes were built before 1978, so work that disturbs painted baseboards, shoe molding or stair components will usually fall under the EPA's lead-safe rule.

This is the normal condition of a Nutley job, not an exception to plan around. The exposure is at the edges of the floor — sanding equipment runs directly against painted trim.

Dust containment and lead-safe practice are different things. A containment system manages nuisance dust; the RRP rule addresses a regulated hazard and carries its own containment, cleaning and verification requirements. Ask about both, separately.

The pre-1978 figure is approximate — see the method note on our housing data page for how it is derived.

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