Richard Doyle Flooring

Richard Doyle Flooring is a Weymouth wood-floor specialist that installs new wood and laminate floors and, above all, brings old ones back — dustless sanding, refinishing, and repair of existing hardwood. By its own account the company has worked South Shore homes and businesses for more than 26 years, and a family member describes it as a business his father started decades ago. The picture from customers is genuinely mixed, and with only a few reviews to go on it's worth reading closely rather than trusting a single number. Some clients praise Richard and his crew as fast, responsive, and skilled at both installing new floors and matching refinished ones. But the record also holds a detailed, hard complaint: one homeowner said a hardwood repair and refinish came out chipped and sinking with big gaps and a rough, sandpaper-like finish, and that they were charged an extra $1,000 to re-sand it smooth. A specific dispute about the actual work like that carries real weight against a thin set of reviews. That split is the whole story here — real craftsmanship for some, a serious workmanship dispute for another, over a small body of feedback. If you're considering them, lean hard on references for jobs like yours, especially weave-in repairs and refinishing; ask to see recent finished floors in person; and get the scope, finish expectations, and full price in writing before any work starts.