Stairs & trim in Sunnyvale, TX
Stairs and trim are the last ten percent of a flooring job and the first thing anyone looks at. A stair nosing sits at eye level and repeats the whole way up a flight, and a transition strip lands exactly where a foot meets it. We handle treads, risers, nosings, baseboard, shoe and the joints between rooms that finish at different heights. Installed by our own crew across Sunnyvale.
Stairs & trim done right, the first time, in Sunnyvale.
Homeowners across Sunnyvale, TX call All About Floors for stairs & trim 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 stairs & trim across Sunnyvale and the surrounding area, including Mesquite, Heath, Forney, Rowlett.
What's included
- Stair nosings ordered from the same product line as the floor
- Retread caps over sound existing treads
- Full tread and riser replacement where framing has moved
- Loose framing screwed and shimmed before anything is covered
- Baseboard, shoe moulding and quarter round installed and finished
- Reducers, T-moldings and thresholds between floors of different heights
- Carpet terminated behind a nosing at landings and stair tops
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 In 1973, responding to septic tank failures, the town adopted a one-acre minimum lot size, and it never repealed the rule after sewer service arrived.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.
Stairs & trim jobs near Sunnyvale
What homeowners say
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Stairs & trim 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.
Can you match stair nosings to flooring already in my house?
Usually, if the product can be identified. Bring us a spare plank or a photo of the carton and we look for a nosing from the same line first. If it has been discontinued, a stain grade nosing finished on site gets closer than a stock profile in a similar color. We would rather say a true match is not achievable than install one that reads wrong on every step.
How long does a staircase take, and can we use the stairs while you work?
Most residential flights run two to three days once material is on hand, and the stairs are out of service for part of that. In a two story house with one staircase we sequence the work so the flight is walkable overnight, or split it and do half at a time. Tell us at the estimate if someone in the household cannot manage a detour.
Do the risers have to match the treads?
No, and most people choose not to. White painted risers under a stained tread is the standard look in newer Dallas area homes and it ties the staircase back to the baseboard and casing already in the house. Matching stained risers give a darker, more solid result. Decide before the treads go down, because cutting paint in cleanly around finished treads is slow work.
Flexible financing available
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