Laminate in Kemp, TX
Laminate carries a reputation earned by product that has not been sold in twenty years. The surface on a current plank is harder than the finish on real wood and harder than the top layer on vinyl, which makes it the most scratch-resistant floor in most showrooms. Its limit has never moved: the core is compressed wood fiber, and wood fiber and standing water do not coexist. Installed by our own crew across Kemp.
Laminate done right, the first time, in Kemp.
Homeowners across Kemp, TX call All About Floors for laminate 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 laminate across Kemp and the surrounding area, including Mabank, Kaufman, Crandall, Talty.
What's included
- AC-rated planks matched to the traffic in each room
- Embossed-in-register surfaces that read as separate boards
- Underlayment selected for the plank and the subfloor
- Poly moisture barrier lapped and taped over concrete
- Expansion gaps held at every wall, jamb and island
- Silicone-sealed perimeters in kitchens and entries
- Transitions and reducers fitted to adjoining floors
- Room-by-room advice on where laminate should not go
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.
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What homeowners say
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Laminate 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.
Is laminate a good floor for dogs?
For claws it is one of the best floors you can buy. Specify AC4 or AC5 and nails will not mark it the way they mark wood. The dog problem with laminate is not scratching, it is water. A tipped bowl standing overnight against a seam swells the core, and an accident found in the morning does the same. Put the bowl on a tray.
Can we use a steam mop on it?
No. Steam drives moisture through the joints into the fiberboard core, and it voids the warranty on essentially every laminate sold. Damp is fine: a well-wrung microfiber mop, or a cleaner made for laminate sprayed onto the pad rather than the floor. Sweep first, since grit under a mop head is what dulls a surface that would otherwise last decades.
How long does the installation take, and can we walk on it right away?
A floating floor goes down quickly and there is nothing to cure, so you walk on it as soon as the last plank locks in, and furniture comes back the same day. A single room is usually a day. A main living area with several doorways and closets takes longer than the square footage suggests, because the cuts consume the time.
Flexible financing available
Wisetack and Synchrony
Every floor type we install in Kemp, TX
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