Flooring installation Austin
Flooring installed and refinished across Austin homes, priced by the square foot.
LVP, engineered hardwood and refinishing of the hardwood already in the house. One crew, one measured square footage, one written scope before a plank gets cut.
What's sold and what it runs on
The flooring installation Austin homeowners hire Ronevexa for covers three jobs: new LVP plank, new engineered hardwood, and refinishing hardwood floors that are already down. Every job is priced per square foot installed. It gets measured room by room during the walk-through and written down before material is ordered.
- Price basis
- Per square foot installed
- Typical footprint
- 150 to 600 sq ft per room set
- Install lead time
- 2 to 5 working days once material is on site
- Refinish lead time
- 3 to 4 working days including cure
What's in scope, what isn't
We say the refusals out loud before you sign anything, not after the deposit clears.
We take this on
- Removal of existing flooring and haul-off of the old material
- Subfloor moisture testing and self-leveling compound where the slab or ply is out of flat
- LVP plank install, click-lock or glue-down depending on the room
- Engineered hardwood, nailed or floated depending on subfloor type
- Sand and refinish of existing hardwood, stain match on request
- Transitions, quarter-round and thresholds cut to fit the room
We don't take this on
- Joist-level subfloor repair. If the floor bounces or a joist is compromised, that's framing work first, priced and scheduled separately
- Asbestos testing or abatement on flooring installed before roughly 1980. A licensed abatement contractor is named on the estimate and works ahead of us
- Carpet cleaning or stretch-only calls with no material change
- Any electrical work under a floor register or in-floor outlet box
How the install actually goes
The method changes with the material. None of it is guesswork on the day.
Subfloor first, always
Every job starts with a moisture read on the slab or plywood and a flatness check across the room. Anything out past 3/16 inch over 10 feet gets self-leveling compound before a plank goes down, because flooring laid over a low spot telegraphs that dip within a season and the warranty on the material stops covering it.
LVP is click-lock over a foam or felt underlayment in most rooms, glued down in wet areas like laundry closets where a floating floor can walk. Engineered hardwood gets nailed to a plywood subfloor or floated over an existing slab with a moisture barrier underneath, depending on what's already there. Plank goes in acclimated to the room for at least 48 hours before install so it isn't fighting the humidity on day one.
Refinishing an existing hardwood floor is a three-pass sand starting coarse and working to a fine grit, a stain coat if you're changing the color, then two to three coats of polyurethane with a light scuff-sand between coats. Water-based poly cures faster and off-gasses less; oil-based holds up better under heavy foot traffic and pet claws. We'll tell you which one fits the room instead of defaulting to whichever is in the truck.
Material comparison
Three ways to get a finished floor. Each one trades differently on cost basis, feel and turnaround.
| Material | Underfoot & durability | Moisture tolerance | Typical lead time |
|---|---|---|---|
| LVP plank | Firm, warm underfoot, resists dents from furniture and dropped tools | Fully wet-area tolerant, the usual pick for kitchens and baths | 2 to 3 days once material lands |
| Engineered hardwood | Real wood wear layer, refinishable once lightly over its life | Tolerates normal humidity swings, not standing water | 3 to 5 days once material lands |
| Hardwood refinish | Restores an existing floor's original grain and color, no new material cost | Same tolerance as the floor already has | 3 to 4 days including poly cure |
Figures above are planning ranges, not a quote. The per-square-foot number moves with the material grade you pick, room shape, how many transitions and thresholds are cut, and what the subfloor needs before anything gets laid. The written scope after your walk-through carries the real number.
The sequence, start to sign-off
Same order every time, whether it's one bedroom or the whole first floor.
Walk-through and measure
We measure every room to the square foot, read the subfloor, and note transitions, thresholds and any existing damage.
Sample selection and written scope
You pick the material and finish. The scope goes on paper: square footage, material, subfloor prep, price basis, lead time.
Material ordered and acclimated
Plank or board ships to the job site and sits for at least 48 hours before install so it settles to the room's humidity.
Removal and subfloor prep
Old flooring comes out, moisture and flatness get corrected, and the room is swept clean before the new material touches it.
Install or refinish
Plank goes down room by room, or the existing floor gets sanded through its grit sequence and finished with poly.
Sign-off
Walk the finished floor together, check transitions and thresholds, and close out the written scope.
Straight answers before you call
The questions we actually get about flooring installation Austin jobs.
Can you install new flooring over existing tile?
Sometimes. LVP can go over most flat, sound tile with the right underlayment. Engineered hardwood generally can't, because the tile changes the finished floor height against door thresholds. We check this on the walk-through, not after the material's ordered.
How long before I can walk on a refinished floor?
Light foot traffic in socks within 24 hours of the final poly coat, furniture back in the room after about a week, area rugs after two weeks so the finish fully cures underneath them.
Do you match the species and stain of hardwood already in the house?
We match it as closely as the existing wood species and age allow. Sun-faded floors and decades-old white oak don't always match a fresh board exactly, and we'll show you a sample against the real floor before ordering anything.
What if the subfloor is uneven or soft in spots?
Minor unevenness gets corrected with leveling compound as part of the flooring scope. A soft or bouncy spot usually means a joist issue, and that gets handled as a separate framing scope before we lay anything on top of it. See Additions & framing for how that gets priced.
Six people, eleven years, one shop bay
Ronevexa has been running out of Austin for eleven years. The crew installing and refinishing your floor is the same six-person team on every job type in this catalogue, not a rotating sub-crew. Every square foot gets logged against the written scope before we call the job done.
Get your floor measured and priced.
Tell us the rooms and the material you're leaning toward. We'll walk the space, write the scope, and give you a real number to work from.