Bathrooms in Sunnyvale, TX
A bathroom remodel is mostly plumbing, waterproofing and sequencing, and only at the end is it tile. The decisions that determine whether the room lasts fifteen years or leaks in three all happen before anything attractive goes on the wall. Our own crew does the work start to finish, so whoever sets your pan also sets your tile. Installed by our own crew across Sunnyvale.
Bathrooms done right, the first time, in Sunnyvale.
Homeowners across Sunnyvale, TX call All About Floors for bathrooms 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 bathrooms across Sunnyvale and the surrounding area, including Mesquite, Heath, Forney, Rowlett.
What's included
- Sheet or liquid-applied waterproofing membrane behind every wet wall
- Pre-sloped shower pans built to the existing slab drain location
- Overnight flood test on the pan before any tile is set
- Recessed niches framed into the wall and waterproofed as part of the assembly
- Slip resistance matched to tile format and grout joint spacing
- Flexible sealant at every change of plane instead of grout
- Exhaust fans ducted to outside air rather than into the attic
- One-year labor warranty on the 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 In 1973, responding to septic tank failures, the town adopted a one-acre minimum lot size, and it never repealed the rule after sewer service arrived.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.
Bathrooms jobs near Sunnyvale
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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Bathrooms 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 I move the shower or toilet to a different wall?
Sometimes, but it is a slab question before it is a design question. The drains are cast into concrete, so relocating one means cutting the slab. In the newer subdivisions around Forney, Fate and Rockwall those slabs are post-tensioned and the cables inside cannot be cut, which rules some moves out entirely. We look at what you have and tell you what is possible before you commit to a layout.
Do you actually flood test the shower pan?
Yes, on every shower. Once the pan and membrane are complete we plug the drain, fill the pan and leave it overnight. If the level has dropped by morning we find out why and fix it while everything is still open. It costs a day of the schedule and it is the only point in the job where a waterproofing mistake is cheap to correct.
Why does the grout in my shower corners keep cracking?
Because grout was used where sealant belongs. Every change of plane, meaning inside corners, the pan-to-wall joint and the top of the curb, moves slightly with temperature and load. Grout is rigid and cracks under that movement while a color-matched flexible sealant absorbs it. We detail those joints that way from the start, and it is a straightforward repair on an existing shower that is otherwise sound.
Flexible financing available
Wisetack and Synchrony
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