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Herringbone flooring
How much does a herringbone hardwood floor cost, and how long does it take to install?
Herringbone installation takes roughly two to three times longer than a straight-lay floor of the same square footage because every board is cut, and layout error compounds across the room. Arpa Flooring Design installs herringbone in white oak, walnut and rift-and-quartered stock throughout New York City and northern New Jersey.
- Common species
- White oak, European oak, walnut
- Typical block
- 4"–5" x 18"–24"
- Substrate
- Concrete with full-spread adhesive, or plywood
- Install rate
- Roughly 1/3 the pace of straight-lay
Herringbone lives or dies on the starting line. We snap the working line off the room's dominant sightline — usually the entry axis or the window wall — not off the longest wall, because that is the line the eye reads first.
Blocks are dry-racked before adhesive. On a pattern this unforgiving, a half-millimetre of accumulated drift becomes a visible wedge by the far wall.
Border and perimeter treatment is decided before the field goes in. A herringbone field that runs into a wall without a border reads as unfinished, and it cannot be corrected afterward.
We use full-spread adhesive over concrete and adhesive-assisted nail over plywood. Floating a herringbone floor is possible and we do not recommend it.
Where we do this work
Herringbone flooring is available throughout New York County (Manhattan), Kings County (Brooklyn), Queens County, Bronx County, Richmond County (Staten Island), Westchester County, Hudson County, Essex County, Union County, Bergen County, Passaic County, Monmouth County, Middlesex County, from the showroom at 1809 NJ-35, Oakhurst, NJ.