Engineered hardwood flooring in a sunlit room

Hardwood Flooring in Montreal.

Engineered hardwood flooring for Montreal homes, genuine wood over a core built to hold its shape through the year's humidity swing and go down cleanly over a century-old subfloor.

In short

Solid plank fights Montreal's humid-summer-to-dry-winter swing, and in a plex or triplex renovation it usually has to go down over an old, uneven subfloor without a full tear-out; an engineered hardwood core stays dimensionally stable through both problems at once. Crateworks sources it direct with the acclimation guidance to lay it once.

Built for Montreal’s climate

Montreal's humidity swings hard across the year, a genuinely humid summer followed by indoor air that drops once the heat comes on for a long Quebec winter. Solid plank moves with that whole range, gapping as it dries and sometimes cupping when summer humidity returns. Engineered hardwood answers it with a stable plywood or HDF core under a real sawn-wood wear layer, which holds its width through both seasons far better than solid plank does. The other local factor is what is underneath it. A lot of Montreal renovation work happens inside a plex or triplex with an original subfloor that has settled or shifted over a century, and an engineered board's thinner, more forgiving profile is the easier fit over that without a full structural tear-out.

Climate zone
NBC Zone 6 (cold-humid)
Best time to spec
May to July
What we plan for
deep cold, heavy snow, freeze-thaw, and humid summers

Why it suits Montreal

A gut renovation in a Mile End triplex and a full refinish in a Westmount house land on the same construction for different reasons, one needs it to sit flat over an imperfect original subfloor, the other just wants a floor that survives the humidity swing without a gap showing up every February. A thicker wear layer, a wider plank, and a better species grade are part of the standard order, not upcharges over a thinner off-the-shelf option, so the upgrade shows up in the floor, not the invoice.

Container-direct delivery into Greater Montreal.

How it ships to Montreal: Freight lands right at the Port of Montreal on the St. Lawrence Seaway, in the metro itself.
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Hardwood Flooring types

Engineered hardwood flooring in a sunlit room

Hardwood

Hardwood, sourced to your spec.

How it works

  1. 01

    Send your scope

    Drawings, a materials list, or a rough idea. No account, no obligation. Just tell us what the project needs.

  2. 02

    We source & spec

    We match products to your climate and local code, then price them factory-direct from vetted suppliers, not off a distributor's shelf.

  3. 03

    One delivered quote

    The whole schedule comes back as a single coordinated quote, delivered to Montreal. One order, one point of contact.

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Common questions

Engineered, almost always. The swing between a humid summer and a dry heated winter moves solid plank more than most owners expect, and an engineered board stays stable while still being real wood on the surface.
Generally, yes. An engineered board's profile is a more forgiving fit over a subfloor that has settled or shifted over a century than a thicker solid plank would be.
It does. Freight lands right at the Port of Montreal on the St. Lawrence Seaway, inside the metro, so there is no long inland rail leg the way an Ottawa or Winnipeg order has to cover. Send your plex or triplex subfloor details and species preference through /brief and we will confirm the date once the spec is set.

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Spec hardwood flooring for Montreal.

Send drawings or a rough scope. We quote the Montreal delivered price, all-in.

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