Tile flooring installed from $10/sqft. Material, labor, and tax included.
Tile outlasts almost every other surface in your home. Done well, it can last 50 years or more without refinishing, replacing, or worrying about what the kids tracked in. Done poorly, you'll see cracks and lifting within two years. The difference is almost always in the prep work and the crew doing the install, not the tile itself.
These are the questions we answer every week in our showroom. Knowing where you stand on each one makes the rest of the conversation a lot easier.
This is the question we get more than any other. Here's the short answer: porcelain is denser, harder, and more water-resistant than ceramic, which makes it the right call for bathrooms, kitchens, mudrooms, and anywhere moisture is a factor. Ceramic is slightly softer, easier to cut, and costs a little less, making it a smart choice for dry areas and spaces where budget matters. Both hold up beautifully for decades when they're installed correctly. We'll tell you which one makes more sense for your specific room and your specific subfloor.
One of the most popular requests we get right now, and for good reason. Modern wood-look porcelain tile is convincing enough that guests genuinely can't tell the difference until they knock on it. You get the warmth of a hardwood floor in rooms where real wood would never survive: bathrooms, laundry rooms, mudrooms, covered patios. It handles Texas heat, pet accidents, and standing water without flinching. If you've always wanted wood floors throughout your whole home but had rooms that ruled it out, this is worth seeing in person.
Bigger tiles mean fewer grout lines, which means the floor looks cleaner, more modern, and more open. A 24x48 or even larger tile in a main living area or open-concept kitchen creates a seamless look that smaller formats simply can't. It's one of the most dramatic upgrades you can make to how a room feels without changing anything else in it. Large format tile does require a flatter, more carefully prepped subfloor, which is exactly the kind of detail our crews are trained to get right before a single tile gets set.
Tile for a shower wall is a different conversation than tile for a floor. Slip ratings, grout joint sizing, waterproofing membranes, and how the layout handles the transition from floor to wall all matter in ways they don't in a living room. We handle bathroom and shower tile as part of our full remodeling work, which means we're thinking about the waterproofing, the plumbing transitions, and the finished result all at once. You don't have to coordinate that across multiple contractors.
Most cracked, loose, or lifting tile is an installation problem, not a product problem. The tile itself rarely fails. What fails is the subfloor preparation underneath it. Any movement in the subfloor, any moisture that wasn't addressed, any variance that wasn't leveled, will eventually telegraph through the tile surface. Our crews correct all of that before the first tile goes down. That's not extra work. That's the job done right.
Most homeowners come in thinking this is mostly a visual decision. It isn't. Where the tile is going and how that room gets used matters more than how it looks in a photo.
Porcelain is the workhorse. It's denser and harder than ceramic, absorbs almost no water, and holds up in the rooms that take the most punishment: kitchens, bathrooms, mudrooms, and high-traffic main floors. Ceramic is a perfectly good tile in the right place. It's well suited for walls, dry-area floors, and spaces where budget is the priority. Natural stone sits in its own category, with a density and character that varies by type. We'll tell you exactly which material makes sense for the room you're tiling, not just what looks good on a sample board.
Ceramic costs the least and requires almost no upkeep. Wipe it down and move on. Porcelain costs a bit more and asks for the same low-maintenance life. Natural stone is the highest upfront cost of the three and the only one that needs periodic sealing to keep its appearance over time. Our honest advice: choose based on how much maintenance you actually want to do ten years from now, not how the floor looks on install day. Those are two different decisions and most people only think about one of them.
Modern ceramic and porcelain can convincingly replicate wood, marble, concrete, travertine, and stone at a fraction of the cost and with far less upkeep. The technology has gotten genuinely good. Natural stone gives you something no manufactured tile can match: a surface that formed over millions of years, where no two pieces are exactly the same. That one-of-a-kind quality is why people choose it despite the higher cost and maintenance. The decision usually comes down to whether you want the real thing or a very good version of it. Both are valid answers.
Tile is rigid. Your subfloor is not. Central Texas clay soil means most homes shift enough seasonally to crack tile that wasn't installed over the right substrate. We use crack isolation membranes on every tile job and confirm subfloor deflection before a single tile goes down. Most installers skip this step to save time and money. The crack shows up in year two. We won't install tile we don't believe will last. Watch how we level floors before tile goes down.
Different formats, materials, and rooms. This is what tile actually looks like installed, not what it looks like in a showroom.
Material, labor, thinset, grout, and tax are included in every rate. Demo, leveling, crack isolation membranes, and trim show as separate line items because they vary by project.
We'll measure your space, walk through options, and hand you a written estimate with every line item visible.
Your project will be different. But these ranges give you a realistic window before we ever walk through your door.
Current projects, finished installs, and behind-the-scenes from our crew across Austin and Round Rock.
The things homeowners ask us every week, answered straight and without hedging. If something isn't here, just call us at 737-260-7177.
Touch the product, see it in real light, and talk through your options at our place or yours. Either way, you'll leave with a clear plan and a written estimate.
