Residential
Flooring, Drywall, and Ceiling Installation
Hardwood, tile, stone and carpet over properly prepared subfloor, plus drywall repair and installation, texture matching, popcorn removal and acoustic ceiling solutions.
Chapter 01
Subfloor prep and slab flatness decide the outcome
Flooring lives or dies on what's underneath it, and on a slab-on-grade house that means slab flatness first. Houston Metro clay soils move with moisture the way few other regions' soils do, and a slab that has settled or crowned even slightly will telegraph straight through a rigid floor like tile or engineered hardwood if it isn't corrected before installation.
We check flatness and moisture in the slab before we commit to a floor covering, not after the first tile cracks. Self-leveling compound, moisture barriers and proper transitions cost real money, but they're cheaper than replacing a floor that failed because the prep step got skipped.
Finished interior finishes on a Cypress remodel
Texture matching so a patch disappears
Drywall repair is easy to do badly and hard to do so it disappears. Most Cypress homes from the 1990s and 2000s were finished with a specific spray or hand texture, and a patch that doesn't match that texture reads as a patch from across the room even after paint. We match the existing texture pattern before we prime, not after, because texture is the step that either hides the repair or announces it.
The same goes for ceiling patches, which are less forgiving than wall patches because raking light from windows and fixtures shows every inconsistency in a flat ceiling.
Chapter 03
Popcorn removal and containment
Popcorn ceiling removal is a dust job before it's a finish job. We contain the room, protect the floors and fixtures, and remove the texture wet where possible to keep airborne dust down, especially in an occupied house where you're still living in the rest of it during the work.
What's underneath a popcorn ceiling varies. Sometimes it's a clean skim-and-paint job once the texture is off; sometimes the ceiling drywall itself needs patching or a new texture applied to match the rest of the house. We can usually tell you which situation you're in once the first section comes down, not before.
Acoustic ceilings and clean transitions
Acoustic ceiling solutions come up most on the commercial side of our work, but also in home offices, media rooms and additions where sound control matters. Getting a clean transition between an acoustic ceiling and a standard drywall ceiling, or between two flooring materials in adjoining rooms, is a detail that either looks intentional or looks like the job stopped halfway.
Custom flooring designs, whether that's a material change at a doorway or an inlay detail, get planned at the transition line first. That's where a floor either reads as one continuous design or as two separate jobs that happen to meet.
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Common questions on this kind of work