Floor repair

Floor repair in Houston and Katy

A damaged floor is usually not a whole new floor. We repair vinyl plank, laminate and engineered wood: replacing the boards that failed, relaying what was laid badly, and putting floors back after a leak. The visit that tells you which one you need is free.

What we repair

Vinyl plank, laminate and engineered floor repair

Six jobs make up almost everything we get called out for. If yours is not on the list, ask anyway.

Damaged planks replaced

A dropped pan, a dog, a chair leg, a section that swelled. On a click-lock floor the damaged boards come up and go back without touching the rest of the room. Whether we can match the colour depends on the product and how old it is, and we will tell you before you commit to anything.

Lifting, gapping and cupping

A floor that has separated at the seams, risen at an edge or curled at the board ends. These are almost always symptoms of what is underneath or of how the floor was laid, so the fix starts with finding that out rather than gluing the symptom down.

After a leak

Once the restoration company has dried the place out and pulled the wet flooring, somebody has to put a floor back. That is the job we get called for most, and we can work to what your adjuster has agreed.

A bad install, redone

No expansion gap, no underlayment, transitions that were never fitted, a floor laid straight onto a slab that was never flattened. We will tell you honestly whether it is a repair or a relay, including when the answer costs us the smaller job.

Floor leveling before a new floor

Grinding the high spots and pouring self-leveling compound so a slab is flat enough to take plank. This is the step most quotes leave out and the one that decides whether a floor is still flat in five years.

Transitions, baseboard and quarter round

The trim at doorways and room edges, refitted or replaced. Small work, and the part that decides whether a repair reads as invisible or obvious.

The Houston part

Most floor problems here start under the floor

Houston homes are built on slab. A slab moves with the clay underneath it, and it is rarely as flat as the person who laid your floor assumed. So the floor gaps at the seams, or lifts along one wall, or a row of boards starts to rock underfoot, and none of that is really about the boards.

That is why the first thing we do is find out what is underneath, and why we will not quote a repair down the phone. Gluing a symptom back down is a job we could bill you for twice.

Two different things get called leveling, and it matters which one you need. Leveling a floor means grinding the high spots and pouring compound so the surface is flat. That is our work and it happens before a floor goes down. Leveling a house means lifting a settled slab back onto piers. That is foundation work, it is a different trade, and it has to happen first.

Before you call

What we do not take on

Three jobs people ask us for that are somebody else’s trade. Saying so now saves you a visit.

Foundation repair

Piers, underpinning, slab jacking, structural cracks, drainage. If your slab has moved, that is a foundation contractor's job and it has to be sorted before any floor goes down. We will say so and we will not sell you a floor over it.

Sanding and refinishing

We do not sand, stain or refinish wood floors. If that is what your floor needs, you want a refinisher.

Solid hardwood

We work in vinyl plank, laminate and engineered wood. Solid hardwood is a different trade with different tools.

Common questions

Floor repair questions

If yours is not here, ask when you book and we will answer it before anything gets scheduled.

Both, within limits. We prepare and level the surface a floor sits on: grinding high spots, pouring self-leveling compound, and on a wood subfloor replacing damaged sheeting. What we do not do is foundation work. If a Houston slab has settled or cracked structurally, that is a foundation contractor's job, and putting a new floor over it just buys you the same problem again in two years. We will tell you which one you have got.
It can be either, and the honest answer is that nobody can tell you over the phone. Lifting is usually a missing expansion gap, a failed glue line, moisture coming up through the slab, or a high spot the floor was laid over. Occasionally it is the slab moving. We come out, look at it, and tell you which, and that visit is free whether you hire us or not.
Sometimes. It depends on whether the product is still made and how much the existing floor has faded. Bring us the offcuts if you kept them, or the box, or even a photo of the label. If we cannot match it, we will say so rather than lay something close and hope you do not notice, and then the conversation becomes whether to redo the room or the whole floor.
Repair, almost always, if the damage is contained and the floor underneath it is sound. It stops being true when the problem is the way the floor was laid in the first place, because then every repair is temporary. We quote both when both are real options so you are choosing rather than guessing.
Yes. We are usually the ones putting the floor back after the restoration company has dried the place out and taken the wet flooring away. We can give you an itemized written scope you can hand to an adjuster.
It depends on the size of the area and what is underneath, so we do not publish a repair rate we would have to walk back. A new floor supplied and installed starts at $6 a square foot. A contained repair is usually well under that, and we put the number on paper after seeing it rather than guessing here.

Replacing the floor instead

If the answer turns out to be a new floor rather than a repair, these are the two pages worth reading.

Vinyl plank installationWhat it costs in Houston

Free estimate

Get your floor looked at

Tell us what the floor is doing and send a photo if you have one. We will come out, work out whether it is a repair or a relay, and put a number on paper.

What happens next

  1. 1We call or text within 24 hours to book a time that works.
  2. 2We measure, check the subfloor, and bring sample boards to your home.
  3. 3You get a written scope: materials, labor, and finish details, itemized.
  4. 4Nothing is owed for any of the above. The estimate is free either way.
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