Historic brick homes by the river and post-war ranches, about fifteen minutes from Wilmington.
New Castle is about fifteen minutes south of Wilmington on the Delaware River, and it has some of the oldest houses in the state.
In the historic district around the Green, Delaware Street and Battery Park, the homes are brick and frame buildings that have been settling for a very long time, and very little in them is level, square or original under the floor you can see. Work there is careful work: old layers taken up without damaging what is worth keeping, the subfloor brought flat and sound, and a tile or wood layout planned so the room looks straight even where the walls are not.
Outside the historic core, the post-war neighborhoods off Route 9 and Route 13, like Collins Park and Castle Hills, are a different kind of house: brick ranches and Cape Cods from the 1950s and 1960s with small original bathrooms, hall floors on their third covering and kitchens ready for a new floor and backsplash. Those rooms are usually a tear-out, a subfloor check, new tile or luxury vinyl plank, and a clean transition at every doorway. Wherever the house is, the licensed side of the job is named out loud at the quote: moving a drain or adding a circuit is plumbing and electrical work for that trade, and you are told which parts are which before anything is pulled up.
Floor and wall tile, mosaic, marble and pattern work, set to a layout that is planned before anything is stuck down.
02Hardwood, luxury vinyl plank and laminate through living space, laid to run with the room rather than against it.
03The tile and floor side of a bathroom remodel, from tear-out and waterproofing prep to fixtures set back onto finished tile.
04The new kitchen floor and the backsplash, planned around the cabinets and counters so the room reads as one piece.
05Shower walls, floors, pans and niches, with the waterproofing prep done before any tile is set over it.
06Backsplashes and kitchen floors, cut around outlets and cabinet runs so the pattern still reads as one piece.
07Subfloor flattening, old flooring removal and tile repairs, which is where most failed floors actually went wrong.
Tile is not a trade you can rush or hand off halfway. The person who measures your floor is the person who sets it.
Substrate checked flat and sound first, because tile telegraphs every dip and every soft spot beneath it.
Where the full tiles land and where the cuts fall is decided before anything is stuck down.
Set to a line, spaced consistently, then grouted and trimmed so the edges are finished rather than filled.
Where a job crosses into licensed plumbing or electrical, you are told plainly, not sold it.
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Frank did an amazing job on our floors! He was very professional and did an excellent job. Besa Flooring and Tile LLC were so easy to work with and very efficient! We highly recommend them for flooring work!
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Tell us the room and what you want on the floor. You get a straight number and a straight scope.
Call or text (302) 803-1160 with the room and roughly the square footage. Photos help.
Subfloor, moisture and how flat it actually is, because that decides the prep and the price.
One number, and a plain answer about which parts are licensed plumbing or electrical work.
Laid to the agreed layout, grouted, trimmed, and the room left clean.
Based in Wilmington, working across New Castle County. A little outside it, call and ask.
Tell us the room and what you want on the floor, and you will get a straight number.
