Tile in Sunnyvale, TX
Tile is the only floor in a Texas house that does not care about standing water, a dog bowl that tips over, or a west window that cooks the room every afternoon. What it does care about is the slab underneath it. Most of the work in a tile job that lasts happens before the first tile is set. Installed by our own crew across Sunnyvale.
Tile done right, the first time, in Sunnyvale.
Homeowners across Sunnyvale, TX call All About Floors for tile 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 tile across Sunnyvale and the surrounding area, including Mesquite, Heath, Forney, Rowlett.
What's included
- Porcelain, glazed ceramic and natural stone
- Large-format and rectified tile setting
- Slab grinding and patching to flatness tolerance
- Uncoupling and crack-isolation membranes
- Soft movement joints at perimeters and slab joints
- Grout color selection and sealing
- Shower pans, curbs and wet-area waterproofing
- Baseboard reset and door casing undercuts
Built for Sunnyvale homes.
Sunnyvale is the easternmost town entirely inside Dallas County, formed in 1953 when Long Creek and three neighboring communities merged. In 1973, responding to septic tank failures, the town adopted a one-acre minimum lot size, and it never repealed the rule after sewer service arrived. The result is 16.79 square miles of houses spread across large parcels, with an average home age somewhere between ten and forty-five years. That is a different flooring problem from a new subdivision. These floors have been lived on, added onto and patched.
The one-acre rule is the single most useful thing to know about flooring in Sunnyvale. Because the town has held that minimum since 1973, you get older, larger single-family homes on generous parcels rather than a grid of matched subdivisions. Homes here average somewhere in the ten-to-forty-five-year range, and a lot of them have grown over time.
Those additions are the recurring issue. A sunroom, a bonus room or a converted garage gets built years after the original house, sits a fraction of an inch off it, and often has a different subfloor underneath. We measure elevations at every doorway before quoting, because a half-inch step nobody planned for becomes an awkward ramp or a chunky reducer at the end of the job. Designed in from the start, the same transition is invisible.
Demo is the other cost driver in an older Sunnyvale house. It is common to find carpet and pad over sheet vinyl, and sheet vinyl over an earlier layer of sheet vinyl, all of it bonded to a slab nobody has seen since the eighties. We would rather pull back a closet corner during the free estimate and look than guess. Knowing the layers up front is what makes the demo number honest instead of a change order once your furniture is already in the garage.
The newer side of town behaves differently. Stoney Creek sits on lots that generally start around two-thirds of an acre, with gated sections and greenbelt homesites, and Homestead Estates is newer construction as well. Those slabs are flat, the layouts are open, and the work moves quickly. Dallas County is still Blackland Prairie clay underneath either one, so expansion gaps and flatness checks apply regardless of the build year.
One genuine advantage of an acre: we can park the truck, run the saw outside, and stage material without living in your kitchen for three days. Free estimates with samples brought to the house, and we can usually start within about two days.
Tile jobs near Sunnyvale
What homeowners say
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Tile in Sunnyvale, questions
Our sunroom was added later and it sits lower than the rest of the house. Can that be fixed?
Usually, yes. Additions are common in Sunnyvale because the acre lots leave room to build, and they rarely land dead level with the original slab. Depending on the size of the gap we either build the subfloor up, feather the slab, or design a clean transition at the doorway. We measure the difference at the estimate so you know which one you are getting before we start.
What is likely under our carpet if the house dates from the eighties?
Frequently more than one layer. Carpet and pad over sheet vinyl, sometimes vinyl over an older vinyl, all of it bonded to the original slab. We would rather pull back a closet corner during the free estimate and see it for ourselves. Knowing the layers tells us the real demo cost, and demo is usually the biggest single variable in an older Sunnyvale house.
Do you work in Stoney Creek and the newer parts of town?
Yes. Stoney Creek lots generally start around two-thirds of an acre and the slabs are modern and flat, so those jobs move fast. Homestead Estates is the same story. We work out of the showroom at 10 Mustang Court in Forney, bring full sample boxes to the house rather than chips, and can usually get a job started within about two days.
Porcelain or ceramic for a main living area?
Porcelain, in almost every case. It is denser, it absorbs almost no water, and a through-body product will not show a pale scar where it chips. Ceramic is a fine wall tile and fine in a guest bath, but on a floor taking the whole family and a dog every day the glaze wears through before you are ready to replace it.
Will tile crack if the slab moves?
It can, which is why the membranes and movement joints exist. An uncoupling membrane lets the slab shift underneath without dragging the tile along, and a soft joint over every control joint gives the floor somewhere to relieve stress. That covers the seasonal movement Blackland Prairie clay produces. No membrane survives structural failure, so a slab that is actively separating gets addressed first.
Does tile and grout need to be sealed?
Porcelain does not, since there is nothing for a sealer to soak into. Natural stone always does, before grouting and periodically afterward. Cement grout is porous and benefits from sealing in showers, entries and kitchens. A high-performance grout is far less absorbent from the day it cures and takes most of that maintenance off your list.
Flexible financing available
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