Floor removal & demo in Crandall, TX

That's the easiest version of this job and we'd encourage it. An empty house means no furniture to shift, no living around the work, and a faster schedule. Bring us the closing date, we'll measure and price it, and we can usually be on site within about two days of you giving the go-ahead, often finishing the whole downstairs before the moving truck arrives.

Both work, but they fail differently. Crandall sits on Blackland Prairie clay that moves seasonally, and rigid tile is the less forgiving of the two, it needs a crack-isolation membrane underneath if you want it to stay sound. A quality floating LVP tolerates minor slab movement because it isn't bonded down. For most new Wildcat Ranch and Heartland homes we'd lean LVP through the living areas and tile in the wet rooms.

Our own crews. All About Floors has been in business 30 years and the core crew has been together for 20 of them, we have never subcontracted an installation. The same people who measure your house are the people who install it, and the labor carries a one-year warranty. In fast-growing Crandall that matters, because a lot of what we're called out to fix is somebody else's subcontracted work.

Occasionally. A floating floor can go over sound, fully bonded tile in some situations. What stops it more often is height. Every inch you add changes door swings, thresholds, the transition into adjoining rooms, the clearance under a dishwasher and the fit of a refrigerator into its opening. You also inherit whatever is wrong with the old floor, flatness and cracks included.

With containment set up properly, most families stay. We build plastic barriers at the openings, seal the registers and returns in the work zone so nothing travels through the ductwork, and grind with vacuum attached at the tool. Expect noise, and expect the work zone off limits during the day. Demolition done without any of that is what people mean when the dust never seems to end.

It might be, and it should be tested rather than guessed at. Nine-inch tile and black cutback adhesive were both common then, and either can contain asbestos. Intact and covered, they are not a hazard. The risk comes from grinding or sanding them dry. We sample and test before anything is disturbed, and a positive result goes to a licensed abatement firm before we return to prep and install.