Hardwood installation in Sunnyvale, TX
Wood is the one floor people still describe as an investment, and in North Texas the decision that matters most gets made before anyone opens a box. Nearly every house here sits on a concrete slab, which rules out some products, favors others, and changes how the floor is fastened down. We walk the rooms, test the slab, and tell you which of the three installation methods your house will actually accept. Installed by our own crew across Sunnyvale.
Hardwood installation done right, the first time, in Sunnyvale.
Homeowners across Sunnyvale, TX call All About Floors for hardwood installation 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 hardwood installation across Sunnyvale and the surrounding area, including Mesquite, Heath, Forney, Rowlett.
What's included
- Solid and engineered wood matched to the subfloor
- Slab moisture testing before any glue-down
- Glue-down, floating and nail-down installation
- Grinding and patching to the manufacturer's flatness spec
- Door casings undercut and thresholds fitted
- Wide plank layouts set to the room's longest sight line
- Material acclimated inside the conditioned house
- One-year labor warranty on every installation
Built for Sunnyvale homes.
Sunnyvale is the easternmost town entirely inside Dallas County, formed in 1953 when Long Creek and three neighboring communities merged. In 1973, responding to septic tank failures, the town adopted a one-acre minimum lot size, and it never repealed the rule after sewer service arrived. The result is 16.79 square miles of houses spread across large parcels, with an average home age somewhere between ten and forty-five years. That is a different flooring problem from a new subdivision. These floors have been lived on, added onto and patched.
The one-acre rule is the single most useful thing to know about flooring in Sunnyvale. Because the town has held that minimum since 1973, you get older, larger single-family homes on generous parcels rather than a grid of matched subdivisions. Homes here average somewhere in the ten-to-forty-five-year range, and a lot of them have grown over time.
Those additions are the recurring issue. A sunroom, a bonus room or a converted garage gets built years after the original house, sits a fraction of an inch off it, and often has a different subfloor underneath. We measure elevations at every doorway before quoting, because a half-inch step nobody planned for becomes an awkward ramp or a chunky reducer at the end of the job. Designed in from the start, the same transition is invisible.
Demo is the other cost driver in an older Sunnyvale house. It is common to find carpet and pad over sheet vinyl, and sheet vinyl over an earlier layer of sheet vinyl, all of it bonded to a slab nobody has seen since the eighties. We would rather pull back a closet corner during the free estimate and look than guess. Knowing the layers up front is what makes the demo number honest instead of a change order once your furniture is already in the garage.
The newer side of town behaves differently. Stoney Creek sits on lots that generally start around two-thirds of an acre, with gated sections and greenbelt homesites, and Homestead Estates is newer construction as well. Those slabs are flat, the layouts are open, and the work moves quickly. Dallas County is still Blackland Prairie clay underneath either one, so expansion gaps and flatness checks apply regardless of the build year.
One genuine advantage of an acre: we can park the truck, run the saw outside, and stage material without living in your kitchen for three days. Free estimates with samples brought to the house, and we can usually start within about two days.
Hardwood installation jobs near Sunnyvale
What homeowners say
"We had All About Floors install our wood floors in our home a couple years ago. They did a fantastic job and the price was very affordable. The crew they sent out moved our furniture and worked around our busy schedule with ease. All About Floors is the only floor company I would use and I am so thankful they are a part of the Crandall community!"
Dylan Roberts · Crandall · via Google "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"
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Hardwood installation in Sunnyvale, questions
Our sunroom was added later and it sits lower than the rest of the house. Can that be fixed?
Usually, yes. Additions are common in Sunnyvale because the acre lots leave room to build, and they rarely land dead level with the original slab. Depending on the size of the gap we either build the subfloor up, feather the slab, or design a clean transition at the doorway. We measure the difference at the estimate so you know which one you are getting before we start.
What is likely under our carpet if the house dates from the eighties?
Frequently more than one layer. Carpet and pad over sheet vinyl, sometimes vinyl over an older vinyl, all of it bonded to the original slab. We would rather pull back a closet corner during the free estimate and see it for ourselves. Knowing the layers tells us the real demo cost, and demo is usually the biggest single variable in an older Sunnyvale house.
Do you work in Stoney Creek and the newer parts of town?
Yes. Stoney Creek lots generally start around two-thirds of an acre and the slabs are modern and flat, so those jobs move fast. Homestead Estates is the same story. We work out of the showroom at 10 Mustang Court in Forney, bring full sample boxes to the house rather than chips, and can usually get a job started within about two days.
Our house is on a post-tension slab. Does that limit our options?
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.
Can hardwood go in our kitchen?
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.
What happens to our baseboards and doors?
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.
Flexible financing available
Wisetack and Synchrony
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