Flooring in Crandall, TX
All About Floors installs and services floors throughout Crandall, an 1880s railroad town that went from 3,860 people to an estimated 7,730 in five years.
Floors built for Crandall homes.
Crandall counted 3,860 residents at the 2020 census and an estimated 7,730 by 2025. Nearly all of that arrived as new slab. Wildcat Ranch off US 175 is planned for around 3,100 homes with Beazer, D.R. Horton and Lennar building, and Heartland sits alongside it in Crandall ISD. The old railroad town around Webb Park and South College Street is still there, but the majority of the flooring we do in Crandall is in houses under ten years old.
Crandall grew up alongside the Texas Trunk Railroad in the early 1880s and is named for Cornelius F. Crandall. For most of the twentieth century it stayed small, 774 people in 1970, 2,858 as recently as 2010. Then the metro reached it. US 175 runs along the north side of town, 24 miles from Dallas and nine from Kaufman, and that highway is the reason Crandall is now growing near 8% a year, with developers reported to be planning tens of thousands of homes in and around it by the end of the decade.
Wildcat Ranch is the clearest example: a master-planned community platted for roughly 3,100 single-family homes, served by Noble-Reed Elementary, with the North Amenity Center as the first of three planned recreation centers. Heartland next door runs plans from about 1,576 to 3,025 square feet. Between them they define what a Crandall flooring job usually looks like, a three- or four-bedroom slab house, five years old or less, open plan downstairs, builder carpet on the stairs and in every bedroom, and a thin vinyl in the kitchen that has already scuffed through in front of the sink.
What we run into in Crandall
The technical reality of very new tract housing is that the slab is still young. Concrete keeps releasing moisture long after the house is occupied, so we test rather than assume, and in the first couple of years we often recommend a floating click-lock plank over a glue-down for exactly that reason. Two-story plans bring the other common Crandall detail: stair treads and nosings, which are fiddly to get right and are the first thing anyone notices if they're not.
Underneath is Blackland Prairie clay, the same Houston Black Vertisol that lifts and drops with the wet and dry season. In a subdivision built fast on that ground, we keep tile installations on a crack-isolation membrane and leave proper perimeter expansion, so seasonal slab movement doesn't telegraph straight into the finished floor.
Where we work in Crandall
- Wildcat Ranch
- Heartland
- Trinity Meadows
- Buffalo Creek Estates
- Willow Lakes Estates
- Countryview Estates
- Wynchase Crossing
- Briar Creek Estates
Know the area
- Webb Park on South College Street
- Crandall-Combine Community Library on West Lewis Street
- Crandall High School
- Noble-Reed Elementary School
- the Wildcat Ranch North Amenity Center
- 30+ years
- 1-year labor warranty on all work
What we install in Crandall, TX
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CrandallHardwood installation in Crandall
Solid and engineered hardwood installed over slab and pier-and-beam homes in Forney, Kaufman and Rockwall counties and the wider Dallas metro.
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CrandallHardwood refinishing & sanding in Crandall
Sanding and refinishing existing hardwood floors across Forney, Kaufman and Rockwall counties, starting with an honest read on whether yours can be saved.
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CrandallLuxury vinyl plank (LVP) in Crandall
Luxury vinyl plank installed over slab in Forney, Rockwall and the Dallas metro, with the slab prep that keeps a floating floor tight and quiet.
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CrandallLaminate in Crandall
Laminate flooring installed across Forney, Kaufman and Rockwall counties, with straight answers on AC ratings and the rooms it does not belong in.
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CrandallTile in Crandall
Porcelain, ceramic and natural stone tile set over properly prepped slabs in Forney and across the Dallas metro. Free in-home samples.
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CrandallCarpet in Crandall
Carpet and pad for bedrooms, stairs and upstairs living areas, measured, seamed and power stretched throughout Forney and Kaufman County.
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CrandallFloor removal & demo in Crandall
Tile, thinset, carpet and old vinyl removed and hauled off, and the slab ground flat, for homes across Forney, Kaufman and Rockwall counties.
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CrandallStairs & trim in Crandall
Stair treads, risers, nosings, baseboard and floor transitions installed to match your flooring, for homes in Forney and across the Dallas metro.
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CrandallCommercial flooring in Crandall
Commercial flooring for offices, clinics, retail suites and rental turns across Forney, Kaufman County and the Dallas metro, installed around your hours.
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CrandallBathrooms in Crandall
Bathroom remodeling in Forney and across Kaufman and Rockwall counties, from shower waterproofing and pans through tile, floors and fixtures.
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CrandallKitchens in Crandall
Kitchen remodeling for Forney and the wider Dallas metro, covering floors, countertops, backsplash and the sequencing around your cabinets.
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CrandallShutters and Blinds in Crandall
Plantation shutters, faux wood and real wood blinds measured and installed for homes in Forney, Kaufman County and across the Dallas metro.
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CrandallCountertops in Crandall
Quartz, granite and solid surface countertops templated and installed in Forney, Kaufman and Rockwall county homes by our own crew.
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Crandall homeowners
"All About Floors is amazing to work with! We recently had our entire flooring replaced and they not only did a wonderful job, the support and aftercare has been top notch! Highly recommend"
J Shoe2 · via Google "The team at All About Floors did an absolutely phenomenal job repairing a portion of a floor in my clients' home that nobody else would touch. We are so grateful for Patty and her amazing team!"
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Flooring in Crandall, questions
Can we replace the builder carpet in Wildcat Ranch before we move in?
That's the easiest version of this job and we'd encourage it. An empty house means no furniture to shift, no living around the work, and a faster schedule. Bring us the closing date, we'll measure and price it, and we can usually be on site within about two days of you giving the go-ahead, often finishing the whole downstairs before the moving truck arrives.
LVP or tile in a brand-new Crandall slab house?
Both work, but they fail differently. Crandall sits on Blackland Prairie clay that moves seasonally, and rigid tile is the less forgiving of the two, it needs a crack-isolation membrane underneath if you want it to stay sound. A quality floating LVP tolerates minor slab movement because it isn't bonded down. For most new Wildcat Ranch and Heartland homes we'd lean LVP through the living areas and tile in the wet rooms.
Who actually shows up to do the work?
Our own crews. All About Floors has been in business 30 years and the core crew has been together for 20 of them, we have never subcontracted an installation. The same people who measure your house are the people who install it, and the labor carries a one-year warranty. In fast-growing Crandall that matters, because a lot of what we're called out to fix is somebody else's subcontracted work.
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