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Floor removal & demo, Mabank, TX

Floor removal & demo in Mabank, TX

Nobody sets out to buy floor removal. It shows up on the estimate, it is not the part of the project anyone was picturing, and it is the line that decides whether the new floor sits flat and stays flat. What you are paying for is a substrate that is clean, sound, dry and level enough for whatever goes on top of it. Installed by our own crew across Mabank.

Floor removal & demo installed in Mabank, TX by All About Floors
Why All About Floors in Mabank

Floor removal & demo done right, the first time, in Mabank.

Homeowners across Mabank, TX call All About Floors for floor removal & demo because every job runs with our own crew, no subcontractors, no surprise charges, and one number to call from first sample to finished floor.

We install floor removal & demo across Mabank and the surrounding area, including Kemp, Kaufman, Wills Point, Talty.

What's included

  • Carpet, pad, tackless strip and staple removal
  • Tile and thinset chipped and ground off the slab
  • Glue-down vinyl and adhesive residue removal
  • Suspect pre-1980 resilient flooring tested before disturbance
  • HEPA-shrouded grinders and plastic containment
  • Slab grinding, patching and self-leveling underlayment
  • Moisture testing before glue-down installation
  • Debris loaded and hauled off site
Floor removal & demo in Mabank

Built for Mabank homes.

Mabank sits in three counties at once, Kaufman, Van Zandt and Henderson, on U.S. 175 above the east side of Cedar Creek Lake. Two ranchers, Mason and Eubank, platted it in 1900 after the railroad bypassed old Lawndale, and it stayed a cotton and oil town until the reservoir was finished in 1965. Retirees and Dallas commuters followed. The housing now runs from pre-war frame houses by the old rail corridor to 1970s cabins gone full-time to the Pinnacle Club and new slab subdivisions. Each one needs a different floor.

Lorenzo D. Stover settled this ground in 1846. A merchant named John R. Jones platted the site in 1887 and called it Lawn City, after a dress fabric he sold, then Lawndale when the post office arrived. In 1900 the Southern Pacific ran its line less than a mile away and missed the town entirely, so G. W. Mason and Thomas Eubank, who owned the ranch the tracks crossed, laid out a square mile of their own and combined their surnames into Mabank. It was platted that February, incorporated in 1911, grew on cotton before World War I and on oil exploration between 1917 and 1925. Today it straddles Kaufman, Van Zandt and Henderson counties, and Mabank ISD reaches across all three, taking in Gun Barrel City as well.

Cedar Creek Reservoir changed the arithmetic after 1965. Weekend places went up along the shoreline, retirees moved down full-time and commuters started running U.S. 175 to Dallas. Market Street downtown still holds the storefronts, the Mabank Jubilee still takes it over once a year, and the gated Pinnacle Club with its eighteen holes and lake views sits a few minutes out toward Gun Barrel City. Cherokee Shores, Victory Estates and Paschall Heights carry the newer end.

For flooring, Mabank is the difficult kind of town: three building eras inside the same city limits. A frame house near the old rail corridor is on pier and beam with plank subfloor. A 1970s lake cabin has usually been added onto twice, which means the subfloor height changes at every doorway and there is old vinyl over particleboard somewhere in the middle of it. A house in one of the new subdivisions is a slab like anywhere else. When somebody wants one plank running through the entire house, which is what nearly everyone wants now, the real job is bringing those levels into one plane and handling the transitions honestly. The install is the easy part.

The lake adds humidity, and a house that sits shut between visits swings further than one lived in daily. We acclimate wood on site, set expansion gaps for a room that will be closed up in August and thrown open in February, and say so plainly when a waterproof product is the smarter call. Samples come to your house, and the crew that shows up has been the same crew for twenty years.

Recent work

Floor removal & demo jobs near Mabank

  • Carpet flooring in a closet
Reviews

What homeowners say

  • "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
Mabank FAQs

Floor removal & demo in Mabank, questions

Can you run the same plank through a lake house that has been added onto twice?

Usually, yes, but the levels have to come into one plane first. Plenty of Mabank cabins from the 1970s picked up a room or two over the years, and each addition sat at a slightly different subfloor height with its own patch of vinyl over particleboard. We measure every doorway, level what needs leveling, and only then talk about a continuous run. Anything else looks wrong at the thresholds.

Our place near Cedar Creek Lake sits empty most of the week. Does that matter?

It does. A house closed up between visits swings further in humidity than one lived in every day, and that swing is what gaps and cups a wood floor. We acclimate material on site instead of installing it off the truck, set expansion gaps for the extremes rather than the average, and will tell you straight when waterproof rigid core is the better product for a part-time lake house.

Mabank is in three counties. Do you cover all of it?

Yes, the Kaufman, Van Zandt and Henderson County sides, plus the Gun Barrel City direction that Mabank ISD also serves. U.S. 175 runs straight back to our showroom at 10 Mustang Court in Forney. We bring samples to the home, estimates are free, and once you approve one we can usually start within about two days. Labor carries a one-year warranty.

Can you install the new floor over the old one instead of removing it?

Occasionally. A floating floor can go over sound, fully bonded tile in some situations. What stops it more often is height. Every inch you add changes door swings, thresholds, the transition into adjoining rooms, the clearance under a dishwasher and the fit of a refrigerator into its opening. You also inherit whatever is wrong with the old floor, flatness and cracks included.

How much dust will there be, and can we stay in the house?

With containment set up properly, most families stay. We build plastic barriers at the openings, seal the registers and returns in the work zone so nothing travels through the ductwork, and grind with vacuum attached at the tool. Expect noise, and expect the work zone off limits during the day. Demolition done without any of that is what people mean when the dust never seems to end.

Our house is from the 1970s and has nine-inch tiles. Is that asbestos?

It might be, and it should be tested rather than guessed at. Nine-inch tile and black cutback adhesive were both common then, and either can contain asbestos. Intact and covered, they are not a hazard. The risk comes from grinding or sanding them dry. We sample and test before anything is disturbed, and a positive result goes to a licensed abatement firm before we return to prep and install.

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