For Developers
A Flooring Partner Built for Ground-Up Multifamily in the Treasure Valley
One flooring trade to carry an entire community — units, corridors, and amenity space — priced from your drawings and installed on the turnover schedule your GC is holding you to.
Developing an apartment community or a mixed-use block is a different problem than any single install. You are buying hundreds of near-identical unit finishes, a handful of high-traffic common areas, and a lender who wants everything documented — all landing over new concrete on a schedule that moves building by building. The flooring package has to be repeatable, it has to survive the wear that comes after lease-up, and the paperwork has to be clean enough to satisfy an owner's rep and a construction lender at the same time.
Alderwood works the Treasure Valley's multifamily and mixed-use pipeline from the drawing set, not the model home. We take off unit types by plan, spec assemblies that hold up in a rental setting, and sequence crews to match how your GC is turning buildings — while keeping submittals, moisture documentation, and progress billing organized the way a draw process needs them.
This hub frames how that relationship works and points you to the detail. From here you can dig into unit-level and amenity packages, spec and submittal coordination, draw-based progress billing, and the durability specifications behind the LVT that goes down in most units. Alderwood Flooring operates as an Idaho Registered Contractor (Idaho RCE-6681702) through the Idaho Division of Building Safety, insured, with a workmanship warranty on the floors we install.
Why Partner With Us
What Working With Us Looks Like
Priced From the Drawings, Not Guessed by the Unit
We take off each unit type and common area from your construction set, so a 200-unit community prices from a dozen plans instead of two hundred guesses. Change a plan or the finish schedule and the number moves once, cleanly, everywhere it applies.
One Trade Across the Whole Community
Units, corridors, stair landings, the leasing office, the clubhouse and fitness room — different products, different wear demands, one accountable flooring trade. That keeps transitions, thresholds, and the install standard consistent from a studio to the amenity deck.
Built for New Slabs and High-Desert Air
Most of this product goes down over concrete that is weeks old, in a climate where winter forced-air heat drives indoor humidity low. Moisture testing, correct prep under glue-down and floating assemblies, and honest acclimation are part of our standard sequence — because a floor that fails after lease-up costs an owner far more than it saved.
Documentation a Lender and Owner's Rep Can Use
Submittals, product data, and warranty language get organized to move through review, and progress billing is structured to fit a draw schedule rather than fight it. The goal is a flooring trade whose paperwork never holds up your funding.
Explore the Program
How We Serve Developers
Multifamily Flooring Packages
We build flooring packages by unit type for new Treasure Valley multifamily — studio through 2BR, base and upgrade tiers priced per plan so your whole community specs from one clean sheet.
Read moreSpec & Submittal Coordination
We work straight from the architect's flooring spec — turning product data sheets, submittals, and samples into clean approvals your design team and GC can sign off on without a scramble.
Read moreDraw Schedule & Progress Billing
We bill flooring the way your lender funds the project: a clean schedule of values, pay applications tied to your construction draws, and release billing that reconciles line by line.
Read moreAmenity & Common-Area Flooring
We specify and install the hard-working, design-forward floors that carry your clubhouse, leasing office, corridors, and lobbies through lease-up and the decade after it.
Read moreLVT Durability Specifications
We help Treasure Valley developers read luxury vinyl the way a building does — by wear layer, core type, and how the warranty language actually holds up under rental turnover.
Read moreGuides & Resources
Reference Reading for Developers
Developer Guides
Multifamily Flooring Spec Guide (Treasure Valley)
A complete, engineering-grounded flooring specification for new multifamily construction in the Boise metro: unit-type packages, acoustic baselines, slab moisture by level, submittals, mockups, and value engineering that protects the resident experience.
Read the guideMultifamily Technical
Acoustic Flooring for Apartments: IIC & STC
Footfall and airborne noise between stacked apartments come down to two ratings — IIC and STC — and the layers beneath the finish floor. Here is the real engineering behind acoustic assemblies, from ASTM test methods to perimeter isolation to the gap between lab and field.
Read the guideMultifamily Technical
Commercial-Grade LVT Specs for Rentals & Multifamily
A practical guide to reading LVT specs for rental duty: wear-layer mils, SPC vs WPC cores, ASTM F1700 and F3261 classifications, waterproof-core caveats, and how warranties quietly change for multifamily and commercial use.
Read the guideMultifamily Technical
Slab Moisture & Multifamily Flooring (ASTM F2170)
Slab moisture is the number-one cause of multifamily flooring failure. Here is how it is really tested under ASTM F2170 and F1869, why Treasure Valley ground-floor and podium slabs move vapor year-round, and how the right adhesive, membrane, or floating assembly changes by level.
Read the guideDeveloper Guides
Progress Billing & Draw Schedules (Multifamily)
How the flooring line item reconciles with construction finance in Treasure Valley multifamily: schedule of values, AIA G702/G703 pay applications, retainage, lien waivers, and phased billing that tracks the lender draw schedule cleanly.
Read the guideMultifamily Technical
Low-Emission Flooring: CARB Phase 2 & TSCA Title VI
What CARB Phase 2 and EPA TSCA Title VI actually require of composite-wood flooring, how FloorScore certification works, and why formaldehyde control matters most in tight, winter-sealed Idaho apartments. A practical guide to specifying and documenting low-emission floors.
Read the guideCapabilities
How We Plan a Multifamily Package
A short view of what Alderwood brings to a ground-up community. Each area below has its own page with the real detail.
Products & Assemblies
- Rental-grade LVT for unit interiors
- Wear-rated LVT and tile for corridors and lobbies
- Carpet and carpet tile where the spec calls for it
- Entry, mudroom, and transition durability
- Engineered wood over radiant or slab where specified
Coordination & Schedule
- Unit-type takeoffs from the drawing set
- Moisture testing and slab prep on new pours
- Crews sequenced to building turnover
- Common-area and amenity work planned separately
Documentation & Billing
- Submittals and product data packaged for review
- Idaho RCE-6681702 and insurance on file
- Progress billing mapped to your draw schedule
- Workmanship warranty on installed floors
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Talk to Us About Your Developers Project
Send the basics and any plan sets. We'll give you a straight read on package, schedule, and price fit — no obligation. Idaho Registered Contractor (Idaho RCE-6681702), serving The Treasure Valley & Boise Metro.
Also building or managing something else? See our apartment owners, property managers programs, plus our home-builder program.
Good to Know
Frequently Asked Questions
Can you handle a whole multifamily community, not just the units?
Yes — the point of working with us is a single flooring trade across the entire community. Rental-grade LVT and carpet in the units, wear-rated product in corridors and lobbies, and a separate spec for the leasing office, clubhouse, and fitness space. Our Amenity & Common-Area page covers how we handle the high-traffic side of the building.
How do you price a project this size?
From your drawings. We take off each unit type and common area from the construction set, so pricing tracks a handful of plans rather than every door. When a plan or finish schedule changes, we reprice that plan once and it flows to every unit it affects, which keeps purchasing and change management clean across a long build.
What flooring actually goes into the units?
Most Treasure Valley multifamily runs on luxury vinyl tile through the living areas and kitchens for its water resistance and repairability, with carpet in bedrooms where the spec calls for it. LVT wear layers and warranties vary widely, so the right product depends on your rental positioning — our LVT Durability Specifications page breaks down what to look for.
Will your billing work with our construction draws?
Yes. We structure progress billing to line up with a draw schedule — billing installed work by building or phase so it reconciles against your lender's funding requests. Our Draw Schedule & Progress Billing page walks through exactly how that is set up.
How do you deal with new slabs and Idaho's dry winters?
Every new pour gets moisture tested before product goes down, and prep is matched to the assembly — glue-down, floating, or over radiant. Because winter forced-air heat pulls indoor humidity very low here, we acclimate wood products honestly and flag where a humidification or product choice protects the floor long term, rather than promising a floor won't move at all.