Hardwood installation in Combine, TX
Wood is the one floor people still describe as an investment, and in North Texas the decision that matters most gets made before anyone opens a box. Nearly every house here sits on a concrete slab, which rules out some products, favors others, and changes how the floor is fastened down. We walk the rooms, test the slab, and tell you which of the three installation methods your house will actually accept. Installed by our own crew across Combine.
Hardwood installation done right, the first time, in Combine.
Homeowners across Combine, TX call All About Floors for hardwood installation 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 hardwood installation across Combine and the surrounding area, including Crandall, Heartland, Talty, Forney.
What's included
- Solid and engineered wood matched to the subfloor
- Slab moisture testing before any glue-down
- Glue-down, floating and nail-down installation
- Grinding and patching to the manufacturer's flatness spec
- Door casings undercut and thresholds fitted
- Wide plank layouts set to the room's longest sight line
- Material acclimated inside the conditioned house
- One-year labor warranty on every installation
Built for Combine homes.
Combine is not laid out like the master-planned side of Kaufman County. It's about seven square miles at the FM 1389 and FM 3039 crossing, split across the Dallas and Kaufman county line, and it still reads as fully rural at roughly 377 people per square mile. Houses sit back on acreage down long drives, mixed in with manufactured homes, and the names you'll hear are Bent Tree Estates, River Bend Estates and Willow Bend Estates rather than any builder's community.
The settlement here dates to the late 1880s or early 1890s and had a post office from 1895 to 1903. For decades it barely registered, fewer than 25 people through the 1930s and 40s, 297 by 1970. Residents incorporated in the 1970s specifically because Seagoville was expanding around them, and that decision is why Combine still looks the way it does today rather than becoming another stretch of subdivision. Population reached 2,245 at the 2020 census.
The housing follows from the land. Density is around 377 people per square mile across roughly seven square miles, and the town issues single digits to mid-teens of new building permits in a typical year. What that produces is a genuine mix: one-off custom houses on multi-acre tracts, older ranch-style homes, and a substantial share of manufactured housing. The 2024 figures make the split obvious, detached houses averaging around $464,000 against manufactured homes around $142,000. Those are two completely different flooring jobs in the same ZIP code.
On the custom builds, the challenge is scale and continuity. Big open rooms mean long uninterrupted plank runs, which means ordering from one dye lot and getting the slab genuinely flat before starting, because a wave that's invisible in a hallway shows plainly across thirty feet. On manufactured homes the challenge is the deck: original particleboard or thin OSB subfloor that has usually taken water damage around the tub, toilet or entry door, and has to be cut out and replaced before any new surface goes over it.
Practical Combine details matter too. Gravel and dirt drives mean grit tracked indoors year-round, so we push people toward harder wear layers and away from soft finishes at entries. Properties out toward the East Fork bottomland near the John Bunker Sands Wetland Center sit in damper air, which argues for engineered rather than solid wood. And since deliveries have to reach the house, we check truck access down the drive before we schedule.
Hardwood installation jobs near Combine
What homeowners say
"We had All About Floors install our wood floors in our home a couple years ago. They did a fantastic job and the price was very affordable. The crew they sent out moved our furniture and worked around our busy schedule with ease. All About Floors is the only floor company I would use and I am so thankful they are a part of the Crandall community!"
Dylan Roberts · Crandall · via Google "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
Hardwood installation in Combine, questions
We have a manufactured home in Combine. Do you work on those?
Yes, and the subfloor is usually the real job. Manufactured homes are decked in particleboard or thin OSB that swells permanently once it gets wet, so soft spots around the tub, toilet or back door have to be cut out and replaced with proper sheet material before anything new goes down. Skip that step and the new floor telegraphs every weak patch within a year.
We're on several acres off FM 1389. Will you actually come out here for an estimate?
We will. Combine is one of our closest towns, our showroom is at 10 Mustang Court in Forney, a short run up the road. The estimate is free and we bring samples to the house so you can see them in your own light. We'll also check that a delivery truck can get down the drive, which matters more out here than people expect.
What holds up in a country house with dogs and a gravel driveway?
Grit is what kills floors out here, not water. Sand tracked in off a gravel drive acts like sandpaper underfoot, so we steer toward a thicker wear layer, a rigid-core LVP or a tile with a harder surface rating, rather than a soft-finished wood at entries and traffic lanes. Pair it with a decent mat at every exterior door and you'll double the life of the floor.
Our house is on a post-tension slab. Does that limit our options?
It rules out anything that needs a fastener driven into the concrete, because the steel cables inside are under load and cutting one is a serious repair. On a wood floor that costs you nothing. Engineered plank is either bonded to the surface with a urethane adhesive or floated over a pad, and neither method touches the inside of the slab.
Can hardwood go in our kitchen?
Yes, and it is common here. Wood handles a dropped glass and a wiped-up spill without complaint. What it does not handle is standing water under a dishwasher, or an ice maker line that weeps for a month before anyone notices. Use engineered rather than solid, seal the run where the floor meets the cabinets, and keep full bathrooms on another material.
What happens to our baseboards and doors?
Baseboards usually stay put. We install to the wall and finish with shoe molding, which is cleaner than pulling trim that was caulked and painted in place. Door casings get undercut so the plank slides beneath them rather than being scribed around them, and if the new floor sits higher, interior doors get trimmed at the bottom.
Flexible financing available
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