Flooring in River Oaks, TX

So it is worth being clear about where a company like ours fits here.

What we do in River Oaks. We install new floors. Most of our River Oaks work is part of something larger: a new home going up on a cleared lot, a gut renovation of a house that is staying, or a primary suite, kitchen or bath being redone. In those projects we work alongside the builder, designer or general contractor, on their schedule. Typical scopes include wide-plank engineered hardwood through the main rooms, porcelain or natural stone tile in baths and kitchens, mosaic and wall tile, carpet in bedrooms and on stairs, and the stair treads, nosing, baseboard and quarter round that finish it all.

Why engineered hardwood is the usual wood choice. When a house sits on a concrete slab, Houston's clay soil swells and shrinks with moisture, moving slabs as it does. Gulf Coast humidity adds to it. Engineered hardwood puts a real wood surface over a stable layered core, which handles both much better than solid boards on a slab. It also comes in the wide, long planks that suit large rooms. We test slab moisture, use a vapor barrier where the product requires it, and acclimate the wood in the house before installation.

Tile and stone. Large-format porcelain and natural stone look superb in a well-designed bath or entry, and they are unforgiving of a moving slab. We set them over a crack isolation membrane and spend the time to get the substrate flat, because lippage and hairline cracks are what people notice in a finished room.

Water. Buffalo Bayou forms the neighborhood's northern boundary, and Harvey brought some flooding to River Oaks in 2017. For lower-level rooms, laundry, mudrooms and anywhere water is a real possibility, porcelain tile or a quality waterproof vinyl plank is the practical answer, even in a high-end house.

What we don't do. Many older River Oaks homes have original wood floors. If the goal is to bring those back, you need a specialist in that kind of work. We're an installation company, and we don't resurface existing floors. We would rather tell you that up front than take on a job that is not ours.

How we work. No showroom visit and no sales pitch. We bring samples to the house or the job site, walk the plans with you or your designer, measure and give you a free in-home estimate. Jose runs a family business, and he treats a River Oaks project the way he treats every job: as if his own family's name is on the floor.