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Flooring Built for the People Who Build, Own & Manage
Alderwood Flooring runs dedicated programs for Treasure Valley builders, developers, apartment owners, and property managers — spec-ready packages, schedules we keep, and the consistency that portfolio and production work demand.
Flooring is one line on your project, but it is the line residents walk on every day and the one that generates callbacks when it is done wrong. We treat it as a solved problem: one accountable trade that takes off your plans, holds your schedule, installs to a documented standard, and stands behind the floor afterward — whether that is a 200-lot subdivision, a ground-up apartment community, or a portfolio of existing doors that turn on their own timeline.
Every program below is capability-driven and honest. We are an Idaho Registered Contractor (Idaho RCE-6681702) with 20+ years of combined experience across The Treasure Valley & Boise Metro, and we would rather tell you plainly what a floor will and will not do in Idaho's climate than sell you around it.
Programs
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Production Home Builders
Per-plan takeoffs, spec-tier packages, phase-window scheduling, and punch & warranty for single-family tract communities.
See the programMultifamily Developers
Ground-up spec coordination, unit-type packages, amenity and common-area flooring, and billing that tracks your draw schedule.
See the programApartment Owners & Operators
Fast unit turns, one durable community standard, portfolio pricing, and repair-and-blend that protects NOI.
See the programProperty Managers
Turn SLAs, a standardized SKU program, multi-property rollouts, and owner-ready documentation across every door.
See the programCommercial & Multifamily
Offices, retail, restaurants, and existing apartment communities — commercial-grade product installed around your operating hours.
See the programRemodelers, Designers & Agents
A flooring trade partner that keeps its windows, leaves sites ready, and flags substrate problems in the bid, not after demo.
See the programCapabilities
What a Spec-Ready Flooring Partner Looks Like
One accountable trade for the flooring scope — from takeoff to warranty — across every property type in the Treasure Valley.
Products
- Commercial & residential LVP / rigid-core (SPC/WPC)
- Engineered & solid hardwood
- Carpet, carpet tile & resilient sheet
- Porcelain & natural stone tile
- Acoustic underlayment systems (IIC/STC)
Process
- Per-plan and per-unit-type takeoffs
- Slab moisture testing & substrate prep
- Phase, turn, and draw-aligned scheduling
- Submittals, samples & mockup coordination
- Punch, warranty & attic-stock management
Documentation
- Idaho registration (RCE-6681702) & insurance on file
- Itemized scopes and schedules of value
- Product cut sheets & FloorScore/CARB compliance
- Before/after and condition documentation
- Honest condition notes suitable for owner files
Guides & Resources
The Business Flooring Reference Library
Deep, cited guides on the decisions that drive multifamily, production, and portfolio flooring.
For Developers
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.
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.
Multifamily Flooring Budgets & Per-Door Costs
How to build a realistic per-door flooring budget for a Treasure Valley multifamily project, from product tier and prep to allowances, stairs, and honest value engineering that protects durability.
Mixed-Use & Ground-Floor Retail Flooring
How to spec flooring for a mixed-use building in the Treasure Valley, where ground-floor retail and residential units stack in one structure but demand entirely different products, acoustics, and moisture strategies.
Build-to-Rent (BTR) Community Flooring
How to specify flooring for build-to-rent and single-family-rental communities in the Treasure Valley: a for-sale look with rental durability, standardized so future turns and repairs stay consistent across every home.
Flooring Procurement & Lead Times at Scale
How to procure flooring for a large Treasure Valley project without supply surprises: realistic lead times, allocation and buffer stock, guarding against discontinuations and dye-lot drift, and sequencing orders to your build or turn schedule.
Affordable & LIHTC Housing Flooring
How to specify flooring for affordable and LIHTC developments in the Treasure Valley: budget-conscious product that survives a 15-plus-year compliance hold, standardized across large unit counts, and balanced for the lowest lifetime cost.
Medical Office & Clinic Flooring
A practical guide to flooring for medical office buildings and outpatient clinics: heat-welded sheet vinyl and seamless assemblies for infection control, slip resistance, rolling-load durability, integral coving, and the substrate testing a healthcare tenant improvement demands.
Self-Storage & Light Industrial Flooring
How sealed and coated concrete, epoxy systems, and slab moisture control shape durable, cleanable floors for self-storage, flex, and light-industrial buildings in the Treasure Valley — plus the office and amenity areas inside the same shell.
Flooring for Modular & Offsite Construction
How flooring gets split between the factory and the field in modular and prefab builds — what to install where, how to detail marriage-line seams, and how to protect factory floors through transport and set. Written for Treasure Valley developers and builders.
Multifamily 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.
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.
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.
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.
Senior & Assisted-Living Flooring
How to specify flooring for senior and assisted-living communities in the Treasure Valley — balancing wet slip resistance, rolling loads, cleanability, acoustics, aging vision, and flush, trip-free transitions.
Subfloor Prep & Flatness Standards
Flatness tolerances, moisture testing, and fastening are what separate a floor that lasts from the callback nobody wants. Here is how subfloor prep actually works on a multifamily job in the Treasure Valley.
Concrete Moisture Mitigation Systems
How topical epoxy moisture-mitigation systems work, the RH readings that justify one under ASTM F2170 and F3010, and the cost-vs-risk math that makes mitigating a wet multifamily slab smarter than hoping it dries.
Carpet Tile for Multifamily & Common Areas
Where modular carpet tile earns its place in multifamily buildings — corridors, clubhouses, and offices — and how panel-by-panel replaceability, acoustic performance, and wear ratings stack up against broadloom and hard surface.
ADA & Accessibility Flooring Requirements
How accessibility rules shape multifamily and commercial flooring — threshold heights, firm and slip-resistant surfaces, carpet pile limits, and DCOF. What the ADA Standards, ANSI A117.1, and ANSI A326.3 actually require.
Fitness & Amenity Flooring for Communities
Community gyms, clubhouses, and pet spas each demand a different floor. Here's how to specify rubber, resilient, and wet-room systems for impact, acoustics, and Idaho moisture — so the amenity survives a decade and helps lease the building.
Crawlspace Moisture & Older Multifamily Floors
How vapor from unconditioned crawlspaces cups and delaminates floors in older Treasure Valley garden apartments — and how to specify assemblies that tolerate a damp crawl instead of trapping moisture.
Building Code & Flooring: IBC for Multifamily
A plain-spoken walk through the building-code side of multifamily flooring in Idaho: IBC Section 1206 sound ratings (IIC/STC 50), ASTM E648 flammability classes for corridors and exits, and how code shapes assemblies in units, stairs, and shared spaces.
Sustainable Flooring & LEED for Multifamily
How low-emission flooring, recycled content, and Environmental Product Declarations earn LEED and green-building credits on multifamily projects — and exactly which documents your reporting team needs to pull.
Hotel & Hospitality Flooring
A zone-by-zone engineering guide to hotel flooring — guest rooms, corridors, lobbies, and back-of-house — covering acoustic separation, brand-standard durability, moisture and slab testing, and how to phase a renovation of an occupied property without losing room revenue.
Flooring Workmanship Standards
A measured look at real flooring workmanship tolerances — gaps, overwood and lippage, hollow spots, and pattern alignment — and how naming NWFA and ASTM standards in the spec separates a normal characteristic from a genuine defect at walkthrough.
Memory Care & Skilled Nursing Flooring
Flooring for memory care and skilled nursing is a clinical and cognitive problem, not a finish selection. This guide covers infection control, wet-slip resistance under ANSI A326.3, glare and contrast for impaired vision, wander-safe wayfinding, and rolling-load durability.
For Owners & Managers
Apartment Unit-Turn Flooring Playbook
A working playbook for flooring on apartment unit turns in the Treasure Valley: vacancy-day math, one community standard, repair-and-blend decisions, and scheduling so the floor never holds a unit off the market.
Corridor & Common-Area Flooring for Apartments
A specifier's guide to choosing hallway, stair, lobby, and amenity flooring for Treasure Valley apartment communities — traffic classes, DCOF slip resistance, corridor acoustics, snowy-entry transitions, and phasing work in an occupied, leasing building.
LVP vs. Carpet in Rentals: Total Cost of Ownership
A turn-by-turn cost model comparing luxury vinyl plank and carpet in Treasure Valley rentals — replacement frequency, per-turn labor, waterproofing, and the cases where carpet still pencils out.
Student Housing Flooring
How to specify flooring that survives student housing — brutal wear, compressed academic-calendar turns, acoustics between stacked units, and repair-friendly systems built for high tenant turnover.
Attic Stock & Warranty for Portfolios
The unglamorous discipline that keeps a multi-property flooring portfolio consistent: reserving attic stock, tracking dye lots and warranties by property, and documenting condition so a repair five years out still matches.
Flooring Maintenance Programs for Communities
A practical framework for keeping community flooring in service longer: cleaning cadences, hard-surface and carpet maintenance, refinish-versus-replace decisions, and how a proactive program lowers turn costs across a portfolio.
Short-Term Rental & Hospitality Flooring
How to spec flooring for short-term rentals, hospitality units, and McCall mountain properties — waterproof, scratch-resistant, quiet, and fast to clean between guests, engineered for Idaho's dry winters and freeze-thaw cycles.
Tenant Damage & Flooring Chargebacks
A fair, defensible framework for handling tenant-caused flooring damage: move-in and move-out documentation, useful-life depreciation for deposit deductions, repair-versus-replace scoping, and the records that hold up with owners and in a dispute.
For Builders
Home Builder's Guide to Flooring Allowances
How production and semi-custom builders structure flooring allowances and manage buyer upgrades: allowance math, design-center tiers, schedule and margin protection, change tracking, and a base package that orders cleanly across a whole community.
Flooring Sequencing in Production Homes
Where flooring belongs in the production-home build sequence, and why the order of trim, cabinets, paint, and HVAC decides whether the finished floor holds up or fails.
Reducing Builder Flooring Warranty Callbacks
Most first-year flooring callbacks in new production homes trace back to a handful of preventable installation and jobsite decisions. Here is what actually causes them in the Treasure Valley climate, and the field practices that keep warranty season quiet.
How GCs Should Bid the Flooring Scope
A general contractor's field guide to scoping and comparing flooring bids in the Treasure Valley — what a complete bid contains, how allowances hide risk, and how to force apples-to-apples numbers before the low bid grows into change orders.
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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.
Good to Know
Frequently Asked Questions
Do you work directly with builders, developers, and property managers — not just homeowners?
Yes. Our business programs are built for exactly those buyers, with dedicated pages for builders, developers, apartment owners, property managers. Each has different needs — production scheduling, draw billing, unit turns, portfolio standardization — and we scope the work accordingly.
Can you hold a schedule across a phase, a turn window, or a draw?
That's the core of business work. We plan against your release schedule, make-ready deadline, or draw calendar, confirm material lead times before committing, and tell you early if anything is at risk. An install date from us is a commitment, not an opening bid.
Are you registered and insured for commercial and multifamily work?
Yes — Idaho Registered Contractor (Idaho RCE-6681702) through the Idaho Division of Building Safety, insured, with documentation ready for your project file. Our workmanship warranty stands behind every installed floor.
How do we start a conversation about a project or a portfolio?
Send the basics — property or community, scope, unit or door count, timeline, and any plan sets — through the form below. We'll give you a straight read on package, schedule, and price fit, with no obligation.