Hardwood refinishing & sanding in McLendon-Chisholm, TX
A tired hardwood floor is often a millimeter away from looking new. Sanding lifts off the old coating and a very thin layer of wood with it, and what comes back is the floor as it was laid, minus twenty years of scratches and gray traffic lanes. The part that takes judgment is knowing when there is not enough wood left above the tongue to do that, and saying so. Installed by our own crew across McLendon-Chisholm.
Hardwood refinishing & sanding in McLendon-Chisholm, done right.
Homeowners across McLendon-Chisholm, TX call All About Floors for hardwood refinishing & sanding 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 refinishing & sanding across McLendon-Chisholm and the surrounding area, including Heath, Fate, Rockwall, Forney.
What's included
- Wear layer measured before a machine touches the floor
- Screen-and-recoat where a full sand is not warranted
- Vacuum-containment sanding with sealed doorways and returns
- Stain samples applied to your own boards
- Board replacement woven into the field for water and pet damage
- Waterborne and oil-modified finishes, matte through semi-gloss
- Stay-off and rug timelines given in writing before we leave
Built for McLendon-Chisholm homes.
McLendon-Chisholm was two places before it was one. McLendon was settled around 1870 on land held by P.A. McLendon, and Chisholm sits on ground the Chisholm brothers bought in 1856. They incorporated together on October 18, 1969 to protect their rural lifestyle through zoning, and it held for a long while: 914 residents in 2000, 3,562 in 2020. Then Sonoma Verde platted 1,095 lots across 550 acres off Via Toscana. We work two kinds of house here, often in the same week, and they need different flooring.
McLendon-Chisholm exists because two settlements decided to stay rural. McLendon and Chisholm incorporated together in 1969 specifically to preserve their large-lot way of living through zoning, and the town held at 914 people in 2000 and 3,562 in 2020, which is slow by Rockwall County standards. The housing that came out of those decades is custom: homes generally ten to forty years old, 2,000 to 4,000-plus square feet, on lots from half an acre to more than two.
Custom houses are not template jobs. Nothing is a standard dimension. Hallways run wide, rooms are out of square, and additions were built onto the original slab years later at a slightly different elevation and often over a different subfloor. We shoot elevations at every doorway before quoting so the transitions get designed in rather than improvised on the last afternoon. The stairs and trim in these houses were built by hand, and a floor that dies into them badly is the thing you will look at for the next twenty years.
Then there is Sonoma Verde. It is a 550-acre master plan platted for 1,095 lots between 7,200 and 20,000 square feet, with Highland, Perry, Bloomfield, CastleRock and Megatel all building in it. Same city, completely different work: fresh slabs, repeating floorplans, and builder-grade carpet upstairs that owners start replacing within a few years. Because the plans repeat, we can usually tell you what is under the carpet before we lift a corner of it.
Access is the other local factor. State Highway 205 and FM 550 are the two spines, with City Hall out at 1371 West FM 550, and many of the acreage properties sit at the end of long private drives. We work out how the material reaches the door before the truck rolls instead of carrying boxes a hundred yards in August. The upside of acreage is space: we can set up a cut station outside and keep the dust out of your house entirely. The city has also set aside 50 acres for its first major park, so expect more traffic on those roads over time.
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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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Hardwood refinishing & sanding in McLendon-Chisholm, questions
Our house is on two acres at the end of a long private drive. Is that a delivery problem?
No, but we plan for it. We walk the drive during the estimate and decide whether the truck can reach the house or whether we shuttle the last stretch. Acreage properties out here actually make the job cleaner, because there is room to set up a cut station well away from the doors and keep the dust and noise outside the house.
Does a Sonoma Verde house cost less to floor than an older custom home?
The material does not change, but the labor can. Sonoma Verde floorplans repeat, so measuring and layout go quickly and there are few surprises. Older custom homes off FM 550 and Highway 205 have out-of-square rooms, hand-built stairs and additions poured at a different elevation, and all of that takes longer to do properly. We quote each house on what it actually is.
We are building new in Sonoma Verde. Should we use the builder's flooring or yours?
Either works. If you want something past the builder's standard package, it is often cleaner to take the base allowance and have us do the floors after closing. We bring samples to you, offer financing through Synchrony and Wisetack, and our own crew does the install with nobody subcontracted. Call (972) 564-5533 and we will talk through the timing around your closing date.
Can you refinish one room and leave the rest?
You can, but the seam will show. The same species from the same era darkens at a different rate depending on light, and a fresh finish beside a fifteen-year-old one reads as new against old no matter how the stain is matched. Where a room closes off with a door, we stop cleanly at a threshold. Across an open plan, do the whole field.
Do we have to move out?
Most families stay. With a waterborne finish the odor is mild and clears quickly, and we sequence the work so there is a path to a bedroom and a bathroom. Oil-modified finish is a different story: the smell is strong for several days, and households with infants or birds usually leave. Pets have to be out of the work area entirely, since paw prints in a curing finish are permanent.
Can we change the color of the floor?
Yes, within what the species allows. Red oak carries a pink undertone that fights gray stains, maple and birch blotch unless they are conditioned or water-popped first, and no stain makes a floor lighter than its own bare wood. We sand a section of your floor and lay candidate stains on it, because a sample board of someone else's oak tells you very little.
Flexible financing available
Wisetack and Synchrony
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