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Flooring in Garland, TX

All About Floors installs and services floors throughout Garland, Dallas County's post-war suburb, median construction year 1978, with pre-1950 pier-and-beam in the core and post-2005 stock out by Firewheel..

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About Garland

Floors built for Garland homes.

Garland has the widest spread of housing eras of anywhere we work. It held 10,571 people in 1950, nearly quadrupled by 1960, and reached 138,857 by 1980, so the bulk of the city is 1960s and 1970s, with a 1950s core and pre-war houses around the old square. The median construction year is 1978. That spread means a flooring question in Garland has four different answers depending on which side of Duck Creek you are on. We bring samples out from Forney and install with our own crews.

Garland was incorporated in 1891 when the rival settlements of Embree and Duck Creek merged, and the housing still reads in four distinct layers. There is pre-war and pre-1950 stock around the downtown square and the Travis College Hill Historic District. There is a solid 1950s band in Hiland and the older Duck Creek and Embree streets, brick bungalows and early ranch. There is the great mass of the city, 1960s through the 1980s, in places like Camelot, Eastern Hills, and Rose Hill. Then there is the post-2005 growth that came in with Firewheel Town Center. The citywide median lands at 1978.

That first layer is the one that changes the trade. The pre-1950 core is genuinely pier-and-beam over a crawlspace with plank subfloor, and that is better news than most owners expect. Squeaks, soft spots, and sag can be corrected from underneath rather than by tearing up the room. Original oak strip is often thick enough to sand and refinish instead of replace. Where the planks are cupped or gapped we can overlay plywood and start clean. From the mid-1950s on it is slab, and every one of those same complaints turns into grinding and self-leveler instead.

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What we run into in Garland

Garland's 1950s-to-1970s bulk sits square inside the vinyl-asbestos tile window. Nine-inch tile and black cutback mastic show up regularly under later carpet, sheet vinyl, and laminate. Pre-1980 resilient flooring gets tested, never assumed, and it never gets sanded or dry-scraped. The 1970s kitchens are frequently layered as well: sheet vinyl over vinyl tile over slab, three eras of flooring in one room.

The 1960s bathrooms and entries here are usually mud-set ceramic on a mortar bed, which is a full day of demolition per room and worth knowing before you commit. Older Garland also has more rooms and smaller ones, so thresholds and seam placement carry more weight than they would in an open 2000s plan out near Firewheel, and doorway heights are tight enough that jambs get undercut when a floor gains thickness.

Where we work in Garland

  • Duck Creek
  • Embree
  • Travis College Hill
  • Firewheel
  • Camelot
  • Eastern Hills
  • Rose Hill
  • Hiland

Know the area

  • Firewheel Town Center
  • Granville Arts Center
  • the Plaza Theatre
  • the downtown Garland square
  • Curtis Culwell Center
  • Rowlett Creek Preserve
  • 30+ years
  • 1-year labor warranty on all work
Services in Garland

What we install in Garland, TX

Reviews

Garland 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!"
    Carley Newlin · via Google
Garland FAQs

Flooring in Garland, questions

My older Garland house is pier-and-beam. Is that a problem for new floors?

Usually it is an advantage. The pre-1950 stock around the downtown square and Travis College Hill sits over a crawlspace with plank subfloor, so squeaks, soft spots, and sag can be fixed from below instead of by tearing out the room. Original oak strip is often thick enough to sand and refinish, and where the planks are rough we overlay plywood and lay new goods on a flat, sound deck.

Should I be worried about asbestos under my 1960s Garland floor?

Worth checking, not worth panicking over. Most of Garland was built between the 1950s and the 1980s, and nine-inch resilient tile with black cutback mastic from before the late 1970s often contains asbestos. We test rather than assume, and we never sand, grind, or dry-scrape suspect material. Intact tile can frequently stay put and be covered with a floating floor, which is cheaper and safer than removal.

Why is my Firewheel-area house quoted so differently from my mother's near Duck Creek?

Because they are effectively two different jobs. The post-2005 homes near Firewheel Town Center are open-plan on a young post-tension slab with builder porcelain and carpet. The Duck Creek and Embree streets are 1950s and 1960s, smaller rooms, early slab or pier-and-beam, and often layered old flooring underneath. Same city, thirty to fifty years apart, and the prep is where the difference lands.

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