Professional Tile & Flooring in Buford
Expert Installation Services for Buford Homes & Businesses
First Choice Tile LLC works out of Marietta, GA. Buford sits on the northeast side of the metro, and its city limits fall in both Gwinnett and Hall counties, which is worth knowing before anyone tells you what county you live in. We have worked in Buford since 2019, and the housing here splits into two jobs that could not be less alike. Buford has a genuine old core that the surrounding county does not: about one home in nine inside the city predates 1960, many times the rate for Gwinnett County as a whole, and about a quarter of the city's homes were built before 1980. Those are the houses where we open a floor and find decades of movement under it, where a cracked tile or a failing grout line is a symptom rather than the problem, and where we look for the cause before quoting the fix. At the same time Buford has been building hard: roughly 29 percent of the city's homes went up in 2010 or later, about double the rate for the county, and the 2010s were the single biggest building decade here. That work is a different conversation entirely, usually large-format tile in a house whose floor is only a few years old, where the question is whether the substrate is flat enough for a 12x24 or 24x48 tile rather than whether it is sound. Either way self-leveling underlayment appears as its own line on the estimate when the floor needs it, because large format magnifies every high and low spot and skipping the prep produces lippage, the raised edge that catches light across a room and cannot be fixed with grout. We quote materials, labor and timeline separately, a 30 percent deposit holds your start date, and you get daily updates plus a final walkthrough before the last payment. We work in English, Portuguese and Spanish, we are licensed and insured, and every installation carries a 1-year workmanship warranty.
Areas We Serve in Buford
Neighborhoods:
- Brickton Station
- Whispering Creeks
- Olde Town Estates
- Chestnut Park
- Rose Hill Plantation
- Pebble Brook
- Stonehedge Estates
ZIP Codes:
Near:
- Historic downtown Buford (Main Street & Shadburn Avenue)
- Buford Community Center, Town Park & Sylvia Beard Theatre
- Museum of Buford
- Bona Allen Mansion
- Tannery Row Artist Colony (Bona Allen shoe & horse collar factory)
- Buford Public School Auditorium
- Bowman-Pirkle House
- Main Street Park & Amphitheater
Our Services in Buford
Tile Installation
The job we are called for most in Buford. Ceramic runs $8-15 per square foot installed and porcelain $10-20 on our published pricing, with demolition and subfloor prep quoted as their own lines: in a city this split between pre-1960 houses and post-2010 ones, the prep is the part that varies, not the tile.
Large-Format Tile
12x24 and up, sometimes 24x48, and the size newer Buford homes ask for most. Large format magnifies every high and low spot in a floor, so we check the substrate before quoting and self-leveling appears as its own line when the floor needs it. Installed large format runs $12-25 per square foot on our published pricing.
Tile & Grout Repair
In the older part of Buford, repair comes up as often as new installation. Every repair estimate starts with why the failure happened (subfloor movement, a bad bond, or missing waterproofing), because patching over a live cause just schedules the next failure.
Bathroom Renovation
A bathroom in a pre-1980 Buford house is at or past the end of its waterproofing's service life even when the tile still looks fine. Demolition, substrate prep, membrane, then tile: the tile scope of a standard bathroom runs 3 to 5 days.
Shower Waterproofing
What is behind the tile decides how long a shower lasts. We open the assembly, fix what the years took, and rebuild with a modern membrane system, quoted as its own line so you can see what the protection costs before the tile goes on.
Kitchen Renovation
Opening up a closed kitchen layout means the new floor has to meet the rest of the house flat and level across the whole run. We handle the floor in porcelain or LVP, the backsplash, and the transitions between them. A kitchen usually runs 5 to 7 days; whole-home flooring, 1 to 2 weeks.
LVP Installation
Luxury vinyl plank runs $4-9 per square foot installed and handles kids, dogs and spills better than most alternatives. It still needs a flat, sound base: older plywood subfloors often need refastening and leveling before the first plank goes down, which we check before quoting rather than after.
Why Choose First Choice Tile for Your Buford Project?
- Working in Buford since 2019: full-room tile installations
- Based in Marietta, GA
- In business since 2013, with 500+ projects completed across metro Atlanta
- Licensed and insured
- 1-year workmanship warranty on every installation
- Estimates itemized into materials, labor and timeline (no lump-sum quotes)
- Daily updates and a final walkthrough before the last payment
- Most quotes delivered within 48 hours
- 30% deposit holds the start date; the balance is due at completion
- Estimates and job-site communication in English, Portuguese or Spanish
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