Floor & Decor flooring in Houston.

Floor & Decor sells the floors Houston houses are asking for: porcelain and ceramic tile, luxury vinyl plank, wood, and laminate. We install them. You can buy the material at the store and have us install it, or we can source it and put the product and the labor on one estimate. Either way we look at the boxes before the install is scheduled. Quantity, waste, the same dye lot, and whether that product belongs in a kitchen, a bath, or a bedroom are checked while a return is still easy.

Tile wants a flat substrate and the right mortar, and large pieces show every ridge in a slab. LVP clicks together or glues down, and it only looks as flat as the floor under it. Wood in this climate is usually engineered when it sits on concrete, and it has to acclimate in the house. Laminate floats on a pad. It works in bedrooms and living rooms, and it is a poor choice where water sits. Floor & Decor and Sherwin-Williams are trademarks of their owners, and we are an independent contractor.

Most houses we floor in Katy, Sugar Land, Memorial, and The Woodlands are on a concrete slab. The slab is rarely flat enough for large tile or a click-together plank. Ridges, dips, old adhesive, and paint are the work before the first box is opened. We grind or fill until the floor meets the flatness the maker prints on the box. A pretty plank over a wave will telegraph the wave, and a large tile will lip at every joint.

A slab also holds moisture. After a supply-line leak, a water-heater failure, or flooding, the surface can look dry while the concrete is still wet. Glue-down vinyl and wood will fail on that slab, and a floating floor can trap the moisture under it. We meter the concrete. When the product requires it, we run a moisture test before anything is glued or before wood goes down. Some older houses in Bellaire and West University are pier-and-beam, with a wood subfloor. That floor has to be dry, fastened, and flat too. We do not cover a soft spot.

Wet carpet, swollen laminate, and cupped wood come out. The water path is mapped first, because a stain at the baseboard often means the slab or the wall cavity is wet past the room you can see. Drying is its own job: extraction, air movers, and dehumidifiers until the readings say the structure is dry. A new floor is the step after that, not the step that hides the water. Houston humidity is why a room that feels dry to your hand can still be wet on a meter.

What goes back depends on the room. Tile and a vinyl plank rated for water are the usual kitchen and bath floors. Laminate that sat in floodwater is replaced, not dried and clicked back in. Engineered wood can return to a living room once the slab is dry and the maker allows that slab. If you are filing a claim, we photograph the wet floor before it comes up and the new floor after. The estimate is the price of the removal, the prep, and the installation. You file the claim. Your insurer decides coverage and payment. We are not public adjusters, and we do not give legal advice.

LVP is either a click floor, floated over an approved underlayment, or a glue-down plank. The box says which. We follow that, including the expansion space at the walls. A click floor that is pinned by a tight door jamb or a cabinet will buckle in the first hot month. Glue-down needs the moisture test and a clean slab. Laminate floats on its pad, with transitions at doorways and at any place the floor changes height.

Tile is set in mortar, with layout lines so a full piece lands at the front door when the room allows. Grout is part of the floor, and wet rooms get the joint the product calls for. Wood is fastened or glued the way that species and that slab allow, after it has sat in the house. Toilets and sometimes appliances come up so the floor can run underneath. Shoe molding and reducers are the last pieces, so the edge looks finished against the baseboard you have.

If you already bought the flooring at Floor & Decor, tell us before we visit. We need the product name, the plank or tile size, and how many boxes are in the garage. A shortage stops the job in the middle of the room. Extra boxes cover cuts and a future repair, and a different dye lot will show at the seam. If a box was the wrong product for a bath, we say so while it can still go back. We install what you bought when it fits the room and the substrate.

If you want us to buy it, we choose with you and the material is on our estimate with the labor. The two arrangements are the same install. We are the contractor at the house. Bring a sample home and look at it in the room, morning and afternoon. A showroom light and a north-facing living room in Memorial are not the same color.

A dry, flat room of click-together LVP is often a day once the old floor is out. Leveling, a moisture problem, tile, or a whole first floor adds days, and we separate the drying time from the install time so the calendar is honest. Furniture moving is part of the conversation before the day starts. Stairs and landings are their own pieces. We protect the rooms we are not flooring.

The office is at 511 Crestwater Ct, Houston, TX 77082. Scheduled visits are Monday through Saturday, 8:00 AM to 6:00 PM. Call (713) 909-0034 for a free estimate. We install these floors across Houston, including Katy, Sugar Land, Bellaire, The Woodlands, River Oaks, Memorial, and West University. Family-owned since 1993.