Handyman in Floresta Pointe, Port St. Lucie

Floors on a Florida slab

Most houses here sit on concrete, and a slab moves moisture in ways a wood subfloor doesn't. That is why plank flooring laid without checking the slab first can cup or lift a year later, usually in the room nobody thought was damp. Tile and the better wood-look planks handle it. Getting the slab prepared and level is the unglamorous half of the job and the half that decides how it looks in five years.