Floor removal & demo in Wills Point, 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 Wills Point.
Floor removal & demo done right, the first time, in Wills Point.
Homeowners across Wills Point, 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 Wills Point and the surrounding area, including Terrell, Kaufman, Talty, Kemp.
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
Built for Wills Point homes.
Wills Point is a Texas and Pacific railroad town from 1873, sitting on U.S. 80 in Van Zandt County, the same highway that runs past our Forney showroom. It was the first community in the county to incorporate, in 1884, and it was named the Bluebird Capital of Texas in 1995. The brick streets downtown went down in the 1920s and are still in service. About 3,700 people live here, most of them in older frame houses on pier and beam or out on acreage past the city limits.
William Wills came through around 1848. The town itself took shape in 1873 when the Texas and Pacific built its line, and on July 21, 1884 Wills Point became the first community in Van Zandt County to incorporate. By 1896 it had an opera house, three public schools, cotton gins and a newspaper. The brick streets downtown were laid in the 1920s and are still there, the Bluebird Festival has been held on them every spring since 1994, and the Rose Monument marks the entrance to the historic district. Twenty historical markers, the White Rose and Jones cemeteries and Bruce Park fill out the rest of it. The 2020 census counted 3,747 people. U.S. 80 and State Highway 64 carry the traffic, with I-20 a short drive south and Van Zandt County Regional Airport at the edge of town.
The housing follows that timeline. The original grid along the railroad corridor holds the oldest stock, frame houses and bungalows, most on pier and beam over a crawlspace. A ring of mid-century ranch houses came later, and beyond the city limits it turns to acreage: ranchettes and country homesteads on gravel drives. Only a handful of registered HOAs exist here, with Willow Lake Estates, Town North Estates and High Point Lake Estates among the newer named additions.
Pier and beam is the flooring story in Wills Point. A crawlspace in a humid subtropical climate, this town has recorded 115 degrees and three below zero, keeps moisture under the deck year round, and a century of that leaves joists that deflect, decking that squeaks and rooms that slope an inch corner to corner. We get under the house and look before we quote. Old one-by plank subfloor almost always needs an underlayment before vinyl plank goes over it, or every seam between boards eventually reads through the finished surface.
The other thing we find here that we almost never find in a new suburb is original hardwood hiding under wall-to-wall carpet. On a 1910s or 1920s Wills Point house it is worth pulling a corner back in a closet before you decide anything. Estimates are free and we bring samples to the house.
Floor removal & demo jobs near Wills Point
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!"
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Floor removal & demo in Wills Point, questions
Our floors bounce and squeak. Is that the flooring or the house?
In Wills Point it is almost always the house. Most of the older stock in the original grid sits on pier and beam over a crawlspace, and after decades in this humidity the joists deflect and the decking works loose. New flooring laid over that will bounce and squeak exactly the same. We look underneath before quoting and price the subfloor repair as its own line so you can see what you are paying for.
There might be hardwood under our carpet. What should we do first?
Pull a corner back in a closet before you commit to anything. Houses in the original Wills Point grid from the 1910s and 1920s often have plank hardwood under wall-to-wall carpet, and what is under there changes the whole conversation. Send us a photo or let us look during the free estimate. We would rather price the right job than sell you the bigger one.
Do you actually come this far east?
Yes. U.S. 80 runs straight from Wills Point back to our showroom at 10 Mustang Court in Forney, so this is a regular route for us. We bring samples to the home, the estimate costs nothing, and we can usually start within about two days once you approve it. The crew is ours and never subcontracted, and 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.
Flexible financing available
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Every floor type we install in Wills Point, TX
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