Hardwood installation in Crandall, TX

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.

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.

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.

It rules out anything that needs a fastener driven into the concrete, because the steel cables inside are under load and cutting one is a serious repair. On a wood floor that costs you nothing. Engineered plank is either bonded to the surface with a urethane adhesive or floated over a pad, and neither method touches the inside of the slab.

Yes, and it is common here. Wood handles a dropped glass and a wiped-up spill without complaint. What it does not handle is standing water under a dishwasher, or an ice maker line that weeps for a month before anyone notices. Use engineered rather than solid, seal the run where the floor meets the cabinets, and keep full bathrooms on another material.

Baseboards usually stay put. We install to the wall and finish with shoe molding, which is cleaner than pulling trim that was caulked and painted in place. Door casings get undercut so the plank slides beneath them rather than being scribed around them, and if the new floor sits higher, interior doors get trimmed at the bottom.