Hardwood refinishing & sanding in Kaufman, TX
A tired hardwood floor is often a millimeter away from looking new. Sanding lifts off the old coating and a very thin layer of wood with it, and what comes back is the floor as it was laid, minus twenty years of scratches and gray traffic lanes. The part that takes judgment is knowing when there is not enough wood left above the tongue to do that, and saying so. Installed by our own crew across Kaufman.
Hardwood refinishing & sanding in Kaufman, done right.
Homeowners across Kaufman, TX call All About Floors for hardwood refinishing & sanding 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 refinishing & sanding across Kaufman and the surrounding area, including Talty, Crandall, Terrell, Heartland.
What's included
- Wear layer measured before a machine touches the floor
- Screen-and-recoat where a full sand is not warranted
- Vacuum-containment sanding with sealed doorways and returns
- Stain samples applied to your own boards
- Board replacement woven into the field for water and pet damage
- Waterborne and oil-modified finishes, matte through semi-gloss
- Stay-off and rug timelines given in writing before we leave
Built for Kaufman homes.
The square has been the center of Kaufman since 1851, and the houses around it still show it: modest frame and brick homes on deep lots, churches from 1877 and 1909, a 1908 bank building on the square itself. Kaufman issued 32 single-family permits in 2025, so this is not a boom-build town the way Forney is. Most of what we do here is replacing floors in houses that have already been lived in hard, plus new work out at Kings Fort.
Kaufman is the county seat and it behaves like one. The town was founded as Kings Fort in 1840, named for Dr. William P. King, and the square has been the focal point since 1851. Population is around 9,785 and up roughly 50% since 2000, real growth, but a fraction of what Forney and Crandall have absorbed, and the permit numbers reflect that: 75 single-family permits in 2022, 49 in 2023, 32 in each of 2024 and 2025.
So the flooring work here skews toward existing houses rather than new construction. In-town Kaufman gives you a wide age range in a few blocks, pre-war frame houses on pier-and-beam near the square, 1960s and 70s brick ranches on slab, and 1990s infill. The older slabs are the ones that hold surprises. Peel back sheet vinyl in a 1970s Kaufman kitchen and you often find cutback adhesive, or a bed of hardened thinset from a tile job two owners ago. Both have to come off or be encapsulated properly before a new floor goes down, and that is prep time people don't budget for.
The other thing we see constantly here is the accumulated addition. A house that started small and grew twice will have three floor heights, and the transitions between them are usually where the old flooring failed. Getting the levels to meet cleanly is often more work than the install itself, but it's what makes the finished job read as one house instead of three.
New work is concentrated in Kings Fort, south of Highway 175, where Bloomfield is building Enclave and Georgetown sections. Outside the city limits, Kaufman-area listings run from about 1.29 acres up to nearly 28, and those acreage builds get treated as custom jobs. Median home value in Kaufman sits near $236,000, which is why we offer financing through Synchrony and Wisetack rather than assuming everyone pays up front.
Hardwood refinishing & sanding jobs near Kaufman
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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Hardwood refinishing & sanding in Kaufman, questions
Our house near the square has been added onto twice and every room sits at a different height. Can that be fixed?
Usually, yes. We measure the height difference at each doorway first, then decide between building up the low side with self-leveling compound, using a purpose-made reducer, or feathering the transition across a wider run. On additions with more than about an inch of difference we'll say so up front, because that changes the price and the schedule more than the flooring choice does.
We found black glue under the old kitchen vinyl. Is that a problem?
It's common in Kaufman houses from the 1960s and 70s and it needs handling properly, not scraping in a hurry. Depending on what's underneath, the right answer is mechanical removal or a proper encapsulation layer before the new floor. We'll look at it during the free estimate so it's priced in from the start rather than turning up as a surprise mid-job.
Can we spread the cost over time?
Yes. We offer financing through Synchrony and Wisetack, so a whole-house floor doesn't have to be paid in one lump. We'll bring samples to the house, measure, and give you a written estimate for free, no charge whether or not you go ahead. Once you decide, we can usually be starting within about two days.
Can you refinish one room and leave the rest?
You can, but the seam will show. The same species from the same era darkens at a different rate depending on light, and a fresh finish beside a fifteen-year-old one reads as new against old no matter how the stain is matched. Where a room closes off with a door, we stop cleanly at a threshold. Across an open plan, do the whole field.
Do we have to move out?
Most families stay. With a waterborne finish the odor is mild and clears quickly, and we sequence the work so there is a path to a bedroom and a bathroom. Oil-modified finish is a different story: the smell is strong for several days, and households with infants or birds usually leave. Pets have to be out of the work area entirely, since paw prints in a curing finish are permanent.
Can we change the color of the floor?
Yes, within what the species allows. Red oak carries a pink undertone that fights gray stains, maple and birch blotch unless they are conditioned or water-popped first, and no stain makes a floor lighter than its own bare wood. We sand a section of your floor and lay candidate stains on it, because a sample board of someone else's oak tells you very little.
Flexible financing available
Wisetack and Synchrony
Every floor type we install in Kaufman, TX
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