Vaulted living room with exposed wood beams opening into the kitchen

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Flooring Installation in Rio Grande City, TX

We measure your whole house on the first visit, even if you floor one room at a time. Sealed grout keeps a light floor light against the caliche dust.

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We install tile, vinyl plank and laminate floors in Rio Grande City. Our base is in town, so drive time is zero and we will come out for a single bedroom. A 1,200 square foot tile floor takes 3 to 5 days here, and on these 1980s slabs the moisture test comes before the quote.

Local conditions02

What houses in Rio Grande City actually deal with

There is no travel line on a floor quoted in this city, because zone 1 is the shop address. In a 1980s house in town the biggest single variable is not the tile you pick, it is how much old floor and old thinset has to come off before the new one can start.

Every one of these houses is slab on grade, and the slabs are 1980s pours with no vapor barrier you can count on. Whether your floor can take something glued down is a question we answer with a test, not with a guess.
Houses built around 1987 often still have their first floor. It is either 12 inch ceramic set straight on the slab, or the original carpet.
The slow part of the job here is not the new tile. It is grinding off the old thinset, and that fills the first full day.
Caliche dust off the roads and the yard finds its way inside. Sealed grout is what keeps a light floor looking light in this town.
Most floors in this town go in one room at a time across a couple of years. We measure the whole house on the first visit anyway, so the rooms you leave for later come off the same drawing and the same material list.
Doors, closets and hearths in these houses were cut for a thin floor. Gaining half an inch binds a door, so we plan transitions before anything is ordered.

Permits and requirements

A floor swap on its own does not usually call for a permit, and Rio Grande City is no exception. The rule still changes by city, so we check your address before quoting.
If the work moves a drain or a supply line, that part is plumbing. Texas licenses plumbers and electricians, so those trades are done by a licensed hand.

County: Starr County
Drive time from Rio Grande City: This is our base
Zone: 1 · Base
Languages: English and Spanish

From the build site03

Which homes has David Aceves helped build?

Homes built by Cuates Construction, with David Aceves on the build. Look at the tile layouts, the transitions between rooms and the straight grout lines: David plans a flooring job with that same eye.

Open kitchen and living area with gold pendant lights, a long island and an iron stair railing

Primary bedroom with a black tray ceiling and a marble-look tile floor

Kitchen island with a farmhouse sink facing a linear fireplace

The four homes, room by room

Questions we get04

What people in Rio Grande City ask us

Can you pull the old ceramic without wrecking the slab?

In most 1980s houses here, yes. The tile comes up in pieces and the thinset gets ground back to flat. We look for hollow spots and cracks while we work. If the slab needs patch, that line sits on the estimate before we start, never after.

We want one room now and the rest next year. Will the tile match?

Probably not exactly, and anyone who promises otherwise is guessing. The fix is to buy the whole house quantity on the first order and stack what you are not using yet in a closet or under the carport. When there is nowhere to store it, we end the first phase at a doorway and set a transition there, so the change of lot reads as a decision instead of a mismatch.

Is tile still the right floor for a house in Rio Grande City?

In the wet rooms, yes, and that has not changed. What has changed is the bedrooms, where vinyl plank now goes down over the same slab for less labor and lands warmer and quieter underfoot. Plenty of houses in town end up with both, so we lay the estimate out room by room rather than material by material.

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