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Kitchens, Kemp, TX

Kitchens in Kemp, TX

A kitchen is three trades taking turns in one room, and the order they go in decides how the finished space behaves years later. We handle the flooring and the surfaces, and we plan the sequence around the cabinets and counters. Most of what homeowners actually ask us about is the floor, and specifically where it stops. Installed by our own crew across Kemp.

Kitchens installed in Kemp, TX by All About Floors
Why All About Floors in Kemp

Kitchens done right, the first time, in Kemp.

Homeowners across Kemp, TX call All About Floors for kitchens 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 kitchens across Kemp and the surrounding area, including Mabank, Kaufman, Crandall, Talty.

What's included

  • Flooring run under cabinets or cut in around them, decided before install day
  • Full-depth flooring in refrigerator and range bays so appliances sit level
  • Dishwasher opening height checked against the finished floor build-up
  • Floating rigid core floors kept clear of cabinet runs so they can move
  • Continuous flooring through open-plan kitchen, breakfast and living areas
  • Slab flatness measured across the full run before large format or click-lock
  • Backsplash set after the countertops are templated and installed
  • One-year labor warranty on the installation
Kitchens in Kemp

Built for Kemp homes.

Kemp sits at the bottom of Kaufman County where State Highway 175 crosses State Highway 274, on the north tip of Cedar Creek Lake. Its post office opened in 1851 and the town still runs to about eleven hundred people. Buyers come here for land, acreage and older rural houses off the FM roads, and for the gated water: Beacon Hill, Edgewater at Cedar Creek, and Cedar Creek Country Club, the lake's first golf course, open since 1967. Two very different flooring jobs, both run out of our Forney showroom.

Kemp is at the southern end of Kaufman County, at the intersection of Highway 175 and Highway 274, roughly forty-five miles from downtown Dallas. The post office opened in 1851. The town sits on the north tip of Cedar Creek Lake, 33,000 surface acres and more than 320 miles of shoreline, the fourth largest man-made lake in Texas, owned by the Tarrant Regional Water District and finished in 1965. Kemp City Park is where Mayfest and the Kemp Art Fest happen. Run south on 274 and you reach the Lone Star Marina ramp.

The housing splits two ways, and so does the flooring work. Out on the county roads it is acreage: older frame farmhouses, ranch houses and manufactured homes, plenty of them on pier and beam over a vented crawlspace. Those floors move for reasons that have nothing to do with the finish, joists that have taken thirty years of Texas humidity, decking that was never screwed down properly, a room addition framed half an inch off the original. We fix the deck before we open a box of flooring, because a floating plank floor telegraphs every soft spot underneath it.

The other Kemp is the water. Beacon Hill is a gated community of lakefront and lake-view homesites on the edge of town. Edgewater at Cedar Creek is gated too, 148 lots split between waterfront and water access off Edgewater Drive. Cedar Creek Country Club, built in 1967 for a retirement community and the first golf course on the lake, still anchors that side, with Emerald Estates, Cedar Knolls and Hawks Landing filling in around them. Lake houses are hard on floors. Wet feet come straight off the dock, sand grinds finishes down, and a lot of these places sit closed up midweek with the air conditioning turned back, so interior humidity swings far enough to gap or cup solid wood. That is why we push waterproof rigid core and tile in the entries, baths and lake-facing rooms, and why we acclimate anything wood on site instead of installing it off the truck.

We bring samples to you at the lake. Estimates are free, the crews are our own, and labor carries a one-year warranty.

Recent work

Kitchens jobs near Kemp

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Reviews

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!"
    Carley Newlin · via Google
Kemp FAQs

Kitchens in Kemp, questions

What actually holds up in a Cedar Creek Lake house?

Waterproof rigid core plank and tile, in that order. A Kemp lake house takes wet feet off the dock, sand off the boat and dogs through the back door, and many sit closed up midweek while the humidity swings. Solid wood gaps and cups under that. We put waterproof product where the water comes in and save wood or engineered for interior rooms that stay conditioned year round.

Our place out on the county road is pier and beam. Can you still lay plank?

Yes, but the subfloor comes first. Older Kemp farmhouses and manufactured homes over a vented crawlspace usually need joists checked, loose decking screwed down and dips leveled before anything goes over the top. Skip that and a floating floor telegraphs every soft spot within a year. We put that prep in the written estimate rather than springing it on you the morning of the install.

Do you come out to Kemp for an estimate?

We do, at no charge, and we bring the samples with us. Kemp is a straight run south from our showroom at 10 Mustang Court in Forney. Seeing a floor next to your own cabinets, in the light coming off the lake, beats guessing from a photo. Once you approve the estimate we can usually start within about two days, and financing is available through Synchrony and Wisetack.

Should the new floor go under the kitchen cabinets or around them?

If the cabinets are staying, around them, with the toe kick covering the cut. If they are being replaced in the same project, the floor can go down first. What we will not do is run a floating rigid core floor under a cabinet run, because the weight pins the floor and stops it expanding, which shows up as peaking planks out in the open floor a season later.

Will a new floor stop my dishwasher from coming out?

It can, and it is worth checking beforehand. A dishwasher needs roughly thirty-four inches of clear height under the countertop, and running flooring plus underlayment beneath the cabinets reduces that. We measure the existing opening against the finished thickness of whatever you are choosing, and if it is tight we either change the build-up or cut the floor in around the cabinets.

Should the same flooring run into the living room?

In an open-plan house, usually yes. One continuous floor makes the space read larger and keeps transition strips out of the middle of a room where nothing justifies them. It does mean picking a material that satisfies both rooms, which is why plank vinyl and wood-look porcelain are so common in newer Forney and Fate homes.

Flexible financing available

Wisetack and Synchrony

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