Bathrooms in Talty, TX

Two things. First, the whole order comes from a single dye lot and gets racked and blended as we install, so there's no visible batch change halfway across the room. Second, the slab gets flattened properly before we start, grinding highs, filling lows, because on a Talty-sized floor a gentle wave in the concrete reads as a shadow line under raking light from the windows.

We'd usually talk you out of it. Talty houses are slab-on-grade on Houston Black clay, and solid wood on slab has to be installed over a plywood layer, which raises the floor height and still reacts to the seasonal moisture swing. Engineered wood gives you the same real wood surface with far more dimensional stability. If your heart is set on solid, we'll explain exactly what it takes first.

Our own installers. All About Floors has been doing this for 30 years, the core crew has been together for 20, and we have never subcontracted an installation to anyone. Labor carries a one-year warranty. On a house the size of most Talty builds, the install runs several days, and it's the same faces in your home each of those days rather than a rotating subcontract crew.

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.

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.

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.