Luxury vinyl plank (LVP) in Crandall, TX

That's the easiest version of this job and we'd encourage it. An empty house means no furniture to shift, no living around the work, and a faster schedule. Bring us the closing date, we'll measure and price it, and we can usually be on site within about two days of you giving the go-ahead, often finishing the whole downstairs before the moving truck arrives.

Both work, but they fail differently. Crandall sits on Blackland Prairie clay that moves seasonally, and rigid tile is the less forgiving of the two, it needs a crack-isolation membrane underneath if you want it to stay sound. A quality floating LVP tolerates minor slab movement because it isn't bonded down. For most new Wildcat Ranch and Heartland homes we'd lean LVP through the living areas and tile in the wet rooms.

Our own crews. All About Floors has been in business 30 years and the core crew has been together for 20 of them, we have never subcontracted an installation. The same people who measure your house are the people who install it, and the labor carries a one-year warranty. In fast-growing Crandall that matters, because a lot of what we're called out to fix is somebody else's subcontracted work.

The plank is waterproof; the installation is water resistant. Spills, mopping, a dog that drinks messily and a bathroom floor are all fine indefinitely. A supply line that floods overnight is a different event, because water runs through the perimeter gap and sits on the slab under a floating floor, and it has to be brought up to dry. Vinyl survives that better than wood does.

Yes, and it is the most common request we get. We keep the run continuous from the hallway so there is no threshold to trip over, hold the expansion gap behind the baseboard, seal the perimeter and the toilet flange with silicone, and cut clean around the washer feet. In a small room a glue-down plank is often better, since a floating field needs area to behave.

It can over a period of years, and it is the complaint we hear most about vinyl in this part of Texas. The print sits under a clear layer, and hard afternoon sun lightens it, most visibly where a rug shaded part of the floor and then gets moved. Solar screens, low-E glass or a shade during the worst hours slow it down.