Ali and his team did an outstanding job and we couldn't be happier. We put hardwood in our bedroom, matched to the existing hardwood on the main floor, replaced the main floor baseboards and fixed the stair nosings that previous hardwood installers had 'messed up'. From the start Ali was responsive and accommodating, coming to the house to view the job, and brought samples to compare against the existing floor. His estimate was competitive - not the cheapest not the highest. We were not deal shopping, but wanted a quality job at a reasonable price. Once we agreed on the estimate he came out again to do final measurements, and his brother made a further visit to show us the stain they would put on the baseboards, against the original floor. Ali was able to accommodate us between big jobs so he could start within 2 weeks. The team arrived as scheduled, and spent the first half day prepping. This was maybe longer than expected for one room but they took extra care to prepare properly and screwed down all sections of the subfloor to eliminate any squeaks. They also carefully removed the existing baseboards so they could be reused in another room downstairs that had none (oh and they did that for us too, no extra cost). We had removed the small items from the room but left the bed and dressers - the team looked after moving those for us. They were able to do the cutting outside which eliminated a lot of dust/mess inside. We were impressed with the quality of the job, noteably the fitting around our built-in shelves and baseboard heaters, even inside the closets. The job on the main floor baseboards and stair nosings was excellent, and now match the floors beautifully. They even noticed and repaired a warped board on one of my doorways, totally unrelated to the floor work. They left the house clean and beautiful, took out all the old carpet and baseboards and cleaned all evidence of the sawing/flooring work. All of them were courteous, friendly and skilled. I will definitely go directly to Canwood for future flooring work, without any shopping around.
In summary the things that were important to us were responsiveness, home visit/estimate, quality work, willingness to move furniture so we didn't have to, clean up, quality product, handling extra requests that came up. Canwood excelled in all of these.