Clayton flooring
Yes, we work in Clayton
Clayton is about fifteen minutes from the Dover shop we work from and effectively joined to Smyrna, so we are usually in both on the same trip. It grew fast: the town has roughly doubled since 2000, and most of that is new subdivisions on what used to be farmland.
That means a lot of builder grade floors reaching the age where they start to show it, plus bare garage slabs nobody has touched since handover. Both are straightforward work, and both are cheaper to sort now than in five years.
What a Clayton floor is actually up against
Builder grade flooring is laid fast on a schedule, and the thing that gets rushed is the layer underneath. A subfloor that was never checked for flat gives you hollow, clicking plank floors a few years in, and a click joint over a dip works itself loose and never goes back.
The other one is water. Central Delaware's water table is high and the ground is flat, so a slow leak under a kitchen or a bathroom has nowhere to drain and goes straight into the subfloor. By the time the floor feels soft the damage has been there a while.
What we handle here
Floors we work on in Clayton
Vinyl Plank and Laminate
The replacement most Clayton houses end up wanting, and the one that goes wrong when the subfloor is skipped. We level first, then lay. See vinyl plank installation.
Floor and Subfloor Repair
Soft spots by the dishwasher, squeaks, water damage and boards that have had enough. We open it up, find out why, fix that, then make the floor good. See repairing a damaged floor.
Garage Floor Coatings
A new build garage slab is flat, clean and completely unprotected. Ground and coated now, it never gets the salt damage the older ones have. See garage flooring.
Hardwood Installation
Real wood in the rooms people see, laid over a subfloor that has been checked and with the boards settled to the house first. See new hardwood floors.
Why Clayton calls us
Why Clayton homeowners call Best Choice
Mike Reed has run this business out of Dover since 1999 and is on every job. You are dealing with the owner from the first phone call to the last board, not a salesperson who hands your measurements to whoever is free.
He is also blunt about what a floor needs. If the problem is the subfloor, he will tell you that even though the easy sale is the one on top of it. That is the difference between a floor that fixes the complaint and one that just covers it up for a year.
Where you will find us around Clayton
Route 6 and Route 300 are how we get around Clayton, and the work is spread between the old town center and the newer streets that have gone up on the edges over the last twenty years.
Because Clayton and Smyrna run into each other, most of our Clayton trips cover both. It also means a job here is rarely a special journey, which keeps the scheduling easy on smaller rooms.
Where we work
Laying and finishing floors across Clayton
We cover Clayton and the new developments around it, and usually pair it with flooring in Smyrna next door. North up 13 takes us to Townsend, and south is Dover.
Ask the man doing the work
Straight answers about your flooring questions
Do you come out to Clayton?
Yes, most weeks. It is about fifteen minutes north of Dover and next door to Smyrna, so we are usually in the area anyway.
My plank floor sounds hollow. Can that be fixed?
Yes, and it is a subfloor problem rather than a plank problem. The floor comes up, the dips get leveled, and it goes back down flat and quiet.
Is my new build garage worth coating?
That is the best time to do it. A new slab is flat, clean and undamaged, so once it is ground open the coating gets an ideal start and the salt never gets in.
Can you replace just a damaged section?
Often, yes. We weave new boards into the old rather than butting a patch in, then sand and finish the room as one so it disappears. Tell us where in Clayton you are and we will fit it in.
Do you do whole houses?
Regularly. Wood in the living space, vinyl in the wet rooms and a coated garage floor, priced together and scheduled in one go. We cover all of Clayton.
How do I get a price?
Call (302) 480-9637 and tell Mike the rooms and what is down now. He comes out and looks at it himself. That is the same in Clayton as anywhere else we work.