Flooring in Heath, TX

Heath zones for room. The city's single-family districts run at 15,000, 22,000 and 43,560 square feet, and the comprehensive plan works toward a general target of about one dwelling unit per acre of developable land. In flooring terms that means large houses on large lots: long sightlines, wide hallways, and first floors you can see almost end to end from the entry. A single order here is often two or three times the size of a typical suburban job, so we buy the whole thing as one lot up front and stage it inside the house to acclimate before anything is cut.

The lake is the other half of it. Heath is bordered to the west by Lake Ray Hubbard, 22,745 acres impounded in 1968, and the neighborhoods that touch water sit lower and hold moisture longer. Buffalo Creek's lots back to creeks and ponds, and Mariah Bay and the Heath Golf & Yacht Club shoreline are right on it. Before any glue-down or engineered wood goes onto a slab down there, we test the slab for moisture. It costs an hour, and it is the difference between a floor that stays flat and one that cups its first humid spring.