Hardwood refinishing & sanding in Rockwall, 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 Rockwall.
Hardwood refinishing & sanding in Rockwall, done right.
Homeowners across Rockwall, 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 Rockwall and the surrounding area, including Fate, Rowlett, Heath, McLendon-Chisholm.
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 Rockwall homes.
Rockwall is the county seat of the smallest county in Texas by area, and its housing stock covers a lot of ground. Chandlers Landing went up on the Lake Ray Hubbard shoreline starting in 1970, two years after the lake was impounded. Stone Creek Estates, Breezy Hill and Waterstone Estates are decades newer. So one week we are pulling fifty-year-old flooring off a lake-club slab, and the next we are measuring a new build off Ridge Road. Our Forney showroom is a short run south, and we bring the samples to you.
Rockwall's shoreline neighborhoods are the oldest work in the city. Lake Ray Hubbard was impounded in 1968 and Chandlers Landing was laid out in 1970, so the custom homes on that peninsula are past fifty years old. Slabs that age are rarely flat by today's standards, and thin click-together vinyl telegraphs every dip and every old thinset ridge. We grind the high spots and pour self-leveler where it is needed rather than floating a floor over a dish and letting it flex until the joints fail.
Rockwall County sits on the Texas Blackland Prairie. The clay under these houses shrinks and swells with moisture, and in a dry summer it opens deep cracks that move what is built on top of it. That is why we leave a real expansion gap at every wall, never pin a floating floor under a cabinet toe kick or a heavy island, and check for hollow spots under existing tile before we agree to leave it in place.
The newer half of town is a different job. Breezy Hill, Caruth Lakes, Stone Creek Estates and Waterstone Estates are subdivision builds with open first floors, and the request is almost always the same: take out the carpet-to-tile transition and run one continuous hard surface from the entry through the kitchen to the back wall. Long uninterrupted runs need a racking plan, boards pulled from several boxes at once so the pattern does not repeat, and material from a single production run.
Two practical notes. Chandlers Landing is guard-gated around the clock, so we send crew names and vehicle details ahead of the first day and again if the schedule shifts. And the streets around the courthouse square and The Harbor get tight during the outdoor music season, so if your house backs onto that, we load in early. Estimates are free, we bring samples to the house so you see them under your own light, and we can usually start within about two days.
Hardwood refinishing & sanding jobs near Rockwall
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"
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Hardwood refinishing & sanding in Rockwall, questions
Can you get into Chandlers Landing and the other gated streets by the lake?
Yes. Chandlers Landing is guard-gated around the clock, so we submit crew names and vehicle details before the first day and update them if the schedule changes. The smaller gated pockets along the shoreline work the same way. Tell us your HOA's process when we come out for the estimate and we will handle the paperwork instead of leaving a crew sitting at a call box.
Our house near the lake is from the 1970s and the slab is not flat. Can we still use luxury vinyl plank?
Usually, but only after prep. Slabs from the Chandlers Landing era have settled and been patched, and thin click flooring reproduces every dip and old thinset ridge underneath it. We grind the high spots, fill the low ones with self-leveler, and only then lay the floor. Skipping that step is what causes the flexing joints and clicking noise people complain about a year later.
Do I have to come to a showroom to choose something?
No. Our showroom is at 10 Mustang Court in Forney and you are welcome there, but for Rockwall jobs we normally bring full sample boxes to the house. Lake-facing rooms take a lot of direct light, and colors read completely differently at home than they do under showroom fixtures. Call (972) 564-5533 and we will set up a free estimate.
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
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