Grandeur Flooring in Mississauga and Barrie

Engineered hardwood is the heart of the Grandeur range, and it is real wood: a genuine hardwood wear layer over a stable, multilayer core. That construction is what lets it hold its shape across the seasons and go where solid wood cannot, over concrete and in basements a solid floor would cup in. Grandeur builds it in the three species people actually decorate around.

• Grandeur Oak. The largest engineered range by far, and for good reason. Oak takes stain predictably from pale to deep, its open grain hides the small dents of daily life, and it suits nearly any room. This is the default for most main floors.
• Grandeur Maple. A tighter, smoother grain than oak, with a calm, even look. Maple is harder and reads more contemporary, which suits a clean modern space.
• Grandeur Hickory. The hardest and most dramatic of the three, with strong colour variation board to board. Hickory stands up to dogs, kids and traffic, and makes a floor that is a feature in its own right.

What separates a Grandeur wood floor visually is the finish. Wire brushed pulls out the soft grain for a textured surface that hides wear and adds grip. Hand scraped gives each board a crafted, undulating face. Saw marked keeps the marks of the mill for a rustic, authentic look. These are not printed effects, they are worked into real wood, and they are worth seeing in person because a photo flattens them.

We confirm the wear layer and board width of each collection off the current product, because the wear layer decides how many times an engineered floor can be refinished, and it is the number worth getting exactly right before you plan a floor to last.

Decision: a dry, above grade or over concrete floor where you want real wood, the Grandeur engineered collections are the line, oak for versatility, maple for a modern calm, hickory for hardness and drama. Compare them in engineered hardwood.

Grandeur also makes solid oak, which is one piece of wood top to bottom, the floor you can sand and refinish repeatedly across decades. Solid hardwood belongs on a dry, above grade floor over a wood subfloor, a living room, a dining room, a bedroom, an upper level. It is the longest lived floor here, the one a house passes down.

The honest limit that comes with it: solid wood moves with the seasons and absorbs moisture from concrete, so it does not belong over a slab or below grade. That is not a flaw, it is physics, and it is why engineered exists alongside it. For a basement or a concrete floor, use the Grandeur engineered instead.

Decision: a dry, above grade main floor with a wood subfloor, and you want a floor you can refinish for decades, solid oak is the choice. Over concrete or below grade, engineered. See the wider solid hardwood category.

Vinyl is where the Grandeur range is deepest, with a large set of collections, and it is the answer wherever a floor has to take water: a basement, a kitchen, a laundry, a full bathroom. Rigid core vinyl does not absorb water, stays stable over concrete, and installs as a floating floor below grade where wood cannot go.

Grandeur's vinyl spans many collections, among them Anchor 7, Atlantic, Bliss, Continental, Designer, Entrepreneur, Essential, Inov 8, Pacific, Supreme X, Timeless, Ultimate and Wonder 7, with Essential and Ultimate also offered in a tile format alongside the planks. Across that many collections the meaningful differences are in the construction, the plank thickness, the wear layer, and the click system, which is exactly what decides how a floor feels and how it lasts. Rather than print those figures here where they could go stale across so many ranges, we confirm the exact build of the collection you are drawn to off the current product, and steer you to the right one for your room and traffic. The wear layer in particular is the number that decides how a vinyl floor ages, and it is worth pinning to the box you actually buy.

Decision: a basement, kitchen, laundry or bathroom where water is a real risk, Grandeur vinyl is the material, and a thicker plank with a heavier wear layer is the one to choose for a busy floor or an uneven subfloor. See the wider vinyl plank and vinyl tile ranges.

Grandeur's laminate is water resistant, and it comes in the Aquamate, Finsa and Finsa XXL collections, the XXL being a longer, wider board for a more expansive look with fewer seams. Water resistant laminate gives a hard wearing wood look at a laminate cost, and it holds up to spills, kitchen traffic and wet entries far better than a standard fibreboard laminate.

Water resistant is not the same as fully waterproof, so this is the floor for a busy but not submerged room, a living space, a kitchen, a hallway, rather than a below grade basement or a full wet room, where a rigid vinyl is the right call. We will draw that line for you honestly rather than sell a floor into the wrong room.

Decision: a dry to damp prone living space where you want a laminate, Aquamate or Finsa, with Finsa XXL for the longest, widest board. A genuinely wet room, step to the Grandeur vinyl. Compare in water resistant laminate.

The detail most people forget until the last week of a job is the staircase, and it is the most visible surface in the house, seen head on, at eye level, every day. Grandeur makes stair tread and riser sets designed to match the floors, so the stairs are an exact continuation of the floor rather than a near miss that catches your eye every time you climb them.

Order the stair sets at the same time as the floor, from the same production run, because colour drifts between runs. This is exactly the kind of detail our crews plan up front rather than scramble to match at the end.

Decision: if the floor meets a staircase, spec the matching Grandeur treads and risers with the floor order, not after. Browse stair treads and risers and bring your stair count to the showroom.

• Dry main floor, real wood you refinish for decades. Grandeur solid oak.
• Dry floor or over concrete, real wood with more flexibility. Grandeur engineered oak, maple or hickory.
• Basement, kitchen, laundry, bathroom, anywhere wet. Grandeur vinyl plank or tile.
• Busy living space at a value price, laminate look. Aquamate, Finsa or Finsa XXL water resistant laminate.
• The staircase joining them. Matching Grandeur treads and risers.

Each material in the Grandeur range is a different install with its own way of failing, and getting each right is what our crews are for. Solid hardwood is nailed to a wood subfloor and must be acclimated first, or it gaps and cups. Engineered can be nailed, glued or floated, and over concrete the slab has to be moisture tested before a board goes down. Vinyl and laminate float, and they buckle without an expansion gap or flex over a subfloor that was never flattened. Stairs demand a clean, exact fit at eye level. One brand, four jobs, and none of them forgiving of a shortcut.

Squarefoot Flooring installs the whole Grandeur range with our own people, full time employees, residential and commercial. Before anything goes down, the crew prepares the subfloor to the method that floor needs, moisture tests concrete, acclimates solid wood, sets expansion gaps for the floating floors, and plans the stair work up front. We are not booking a subcontractor and hoping it comes together.

We install and service Grandeur from our Mississauga showroom across Toronto, Mississauga, Etobicoke, Brampton, Port Credit, Erin Mills, Streetsville, Meadowvale and Cooksville, and from our Barrie showroom across Barrie, Innisfil, Angus, Orillia, Collingwood, Midland and Simcoe County. Lead time in the Greater Toronto Area runs about two weeks. Barrie and cottage country jobs from May through September book eight to twelve weeks ahead.

See how a hardwood installation, vinyl installation and laminate installation run with us, and look at the flooring underlayments the floating floors need underneath. All handled in house.

Grandeur runs a large catalogue across four materials and many collections, and any collection can vary in colour, finish and construction. We work from current stock and the actual product in front of us, not an archived listing. If you are matching or extending an existing Grandeur floor, bring a spare board or a clear photo of the box label with the collection name on it. That pins the exact product down far more reliably than a name, since colours and batches update over time.

Take a sample home before you commit. Set it in the actual room, under the light that room gets, at the hour you are usually in it. A wood floor that reads warm under showroom lighting can turn grey against a north facing window, and on the hardwood especially, the wire brushed and hand scraped textures only show their depth in real, raking light.

The full Grandeur range, hardwood, vinyl, laminate and stair sets, is on display at both Squarefoot Flooring showrooms, which are where you see it, plan a whole-home job, and book the install. Bring your room measurements, your subfloor types, and whether each room is above or below grade.

Mississauga. 700 Dundas St E, Unit 3-4, L4Y 3Y5. Call 905-277-2227. Monday to Friday 9 to 6, Saturday 10 to 5, closed Sunday.

Barrie. 112 Saunders Rd, Units 1-4, L4N 9A8. Call 705-726-2272. Monday, Wednesday and Friday 9 to 6, Tuesday and Thursday 9 to 5, Saturday 10 to 5, closed Sunday.

Bring a floor plan and leave with a spec you can trust and a crew that answers to us. Book a showroom visit, or call and we will tell you which Grandeur floor suits each room, including when it is not a Grandeur floor at all.