Kitchens in Forney, TX
A kitchen is three trades taking turns in one room, and the order they go in decides how the finished space behaves years later. We handle the flooring and the surfaces, and we plan the sequence around the cabinets and counters. Most of what homeowners actually ask us about is the floor, and specifically where it stops. Installed by our own crew across Forney.
Kitchens done right, the first time, in Forney.
Homeowners across Forney, TX call All About Floors for kitchens 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 kitchens across Forney and the surrounding area, including Heartland, Heath, Sunnyvale, Talty.
What's included
- Flooring run under cabinets or cut in around them, decided before install day
- Full-depth flooring in refrigerator and range bays so appliances sit level
- Dishwasher opening height checked against the finished floor build-up
- Floating rigid core floors kept clear of cabinet runs so they can move
- Continuous flooring through open-plan kitchen, breakfast and living areas
- Slab flatness measured across the full run before large format or click-lock
- Backsplash set after the countertops are templated and installed
- One-year labor warranty on the installation
Built for Forney homes.
Our showroom is at 10 Mustang Court, so Forney isn't a service area for us, it's the town we work in every day. Between April 2020 and July 2024 the Census Bureau had Forney as the fastest-growing city in the country, up 64.2% to 38,572 people, and most of that arrived as fresh slab in Devonshire, Gateway Parks and Travis Ranch. We also floor the older frame houses near the downtown antique shops. Call (972) 564-5533 and we'll bring samples to the house.
Forney is our home base, and the town splits cleanly into two different flooring problems. North and south of US 80 you have master-planned ground, Devonshire off FM 548, Gateway Parks between US 80 and I-20, Travis Ranch, Windmill Farms, Clements Ranch, nearly all of it slab-on-grade and nearly all of it built since 2000. The permit record shows the pace: 1,082 single-family permits in 2021, 663 in 2024, 273 in 2025. Those houses arrive with builder-grade carpet and thin sheet vinyl that most owners are finished with inside five or six years.
On a young slab, two things decide the job: moisture and flatness. A slab poured and framed over quickly can still be releasing moisture a couple of years later, so we test before any glue-down or engineered wood goes near it. Flatness matters more than people expect in the open-concept plans these builders favor, where one continuous run of plank crosses the entry, kitchen and living room with nothing to break it up. High spots get ground and low spots get filled before the first board is laid.
Older Forney is a different animal. Around the downtown antique shops, Bell Park at Trinity and Bois d'Arc, and the original Founders Addition, you find pre-war frame houses sitting on pier-and-beam with plank subfloors. Those need the subfloor stiffened and levelled first, and they almost always need casings undercut, because the finished floor height changes.
Underneath all of it is Blackland Prairie clay. Houston Black, the state soil, is a Vertisol: it swells when wet and shrinks when dry, and the series description records seasonal movement of several centimeters. That is the practical argument for floating a click-lock plank instead of gluing it down in a house that already shows movement, and for putting a crack-isolation membrane under any tile we set.
Kitchens jobs near Forney
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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Kitchens in Forney, questions
Our Devonshire house is only four years old. Why does the flooring already look worn?
Because builder allowances in the Forney master-planned communities usually cover entry-level carpet and a thin sheet vinyl in the wet areas. Neither is built for a decade of traffic. The slab underneath is usually fine, which is good news: once we grind the high spots and fill the low ones, a wear-layer LVP or engineered wood goes down over the same subfloor and lasts far longer.
We're in an older Forney house near the antique shops, on pier-and-beam. Can you do the same floors?
Yes, but the prep is different. Pier-and-beam houses off the downtown streets typically have plank subfloors that have moved over decades. We stiffen and level the deck first, add underlayment where it's needed, then install. Expect the finished floor to sit slightly higher than the old one, which means door casings get undercut and interior doors may need trimming.
Do we have to come to the Mustang Court showroom to pick materials?
You're welcome to, the showroom is at 10 Mustang Court and it's a short drive from anywhere in Forney. But most people would rather see samples in their own light, next to their own cabinets and walls. Estimates are free and we bring samples to the house. Once you've decided, we can usually start within about two days.
Should the new floor go under the kitchen cabinets or around them?
If the cabinets are staying, around them, with the toe kick covering the cut. If they are being replaced in the same project, the floor can go down first. What we will not do is run a floating rigid core floor under a cabinet run, because the weight pins the floor and stops it expanding, which shows up as peaking planks out in the open floor a season later.
Will a new floor stop my dishwasher from coming out?
It can, and it is worth checking beforehand. A dishwasher needs roughly thirty-four inches of clear height under the countertop, and running flooring plus underlayment beneath the cabinets reduces that. We measure the existing opening against the finished thickness of whatever you are choosing, and if it is tight we either change the build-up or cut the floor in around the cabinets.
Should the same flooring run into the living room?
In an open-plan house, usually yes. One continuous floor makes the space read larger and keeps transition strips out of the middle of a room where nothing justifies them. It does mean picking a material that satisfies both rooms, which is why plank vinyl and wood-look porcelain are so common in newer Forney and Fate homes.
Flexible financing available
Wisetack and Synchrony
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Carpet and pad for bedrooms, stairs and upstairs living areas, measured, seamed and power stretched throughout Forney and Kaufman County.
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