Cleaning and restoring tile, grout, wood, carpet and stone in Georgetown homes since 1999.
Georgetown has been named among the fastest-growing cities in the country more than once, and the floors here tell that story in three distinct chapters:
The new communities of Wolf Ranch, Santa Rita Ranch, Teravista and the newest Del Webb phases where homes are 2–8 years old and the tile still looks new until you look closely at the grout lines.
There is Sun City, the largest active-adult community in Texas, where thousands of single-story homes are tiled through the main living areas and hundreds of homes change hands every year.
Then there’s Old Town, with streets around the courthouse square and near Southwestern University, where a Victorian-era home may still have its original pine floors and small-format bath tile from a century ago.
It highlights the various floor care needs that are different from one area to the next. Santa Fe Floor Care has cleaned and restored Central Texas floors since 1999, with technicians who specialize by surface rather than doing a little of everything. We’re able to handle a hundred-year-old pine floor on Monday and a two-year-old porcelain tile floor on Tuesday with the same level of expertise.
Single-story homes tiled through the main living areas, with builder grout that was often never sealed. Resale make-readies, newly-bought homes that need attention and walk-in showers with hard-water film.
Newer construction west of I-35. Grout that looked flawless at walkthrough and now reads gray in the traffic lanes, plus construction haze that was never fully removed from the tile.
Some of the newest homes in the area are here. Large-format and wood-look plank tile with unsealed grout and fine caliche dust from ongoing construction nearby.
Established golf-community homes. Tile and carpet that have had years of use, plus wood floors clouded by consumer polish.
Custom and luxury homes with travertine, limestone and marble that need restoration more than cleaning.
Victorian-era homes near the square and Southwestern University. Original pine and oak under decades of wax, and small-format bath tile that’s worth preserving.
Long-tenured owners with tile and carpet that’s overdue for a deep cleaning, and grout that has never been professionally cleaned.
Tile and grout cleaning is what our Georgetown clients call us for the most. It’s a matter of there being a lot of tile flooring in the area as well as the maintenance needs for this type of surface material.
Grout is porous, which means things soak into it. Georgetown’s water is mineral-heavy, so every mopping leaves behind a thin film of dissolved minerals drying onto the floor and settling into the grout, where it stays. Mopping again doesn’t correct the problem. It just lays the same film back down. That’s why a floor can be cleaned every week and still look dull and dingy.
Our professional tile and grout cleaning uses rotary agitation and hot-water extraction to pull that buildup out of the grout channel rather than driving it deeper. Then the grout can be sealed or color sealed where staining has set in permanently.
If your Georgetown home is new here’s what nobody explained at closing:
Builder grout is usually sealed once or not at all. When it is sealed, it’s typically a basic product applied quickly during construction, and it wears through within a few years of ordinary traffic and mopping. After that the grout is bare porous cement, absorbing everything.
New tile often isn’t as clean as it looks. A fine haze of grout residue and construction dust is frequently left behind at the end of a build. Homeowners assume the tile is simply a duller finish than they expected. It usually isn’t. It’s a film, and it comes off.
Sealing new grout before it has years of soil in it is the easiest way to prevent issues. It doesn’t make grout maintenance-free, but it buys considerably more time between deep cleans, and it’s far cheaper than restoring grout that has been absorbing soil since 2019.
Newer Georgetown homes have engineered and prefinished plank wood flooring, where the factory finish dulls from fine scratching and from spray-mop residue that creates a coat of film. Old Town’s historic homes have the opposite problem. Original pine and oak is buried under decades of wax and acrylic polish.
Both are fixed by removing what’s on top rather than adding to it. Often this type of professional cleaning and sealing is needed, not sanding and refinishing.
Carpet in bedrooms, sitting rooms and stairs, plus the wool and Oriental rugs that people bring with them when they downsize need just as much attention as other types of flooring. The Santa Fe Floor Care team uses a variety of methods and types of equipment to get textiles looking their best.
Travertine, limestone and marble are a common feature in Cimarron Hills and the custom homes scattered around the area. Stone isn’t tile. It’s much less durable and much more porous. What appears to be stains is actually etching. These dull marks can’t be removed with a cleaning agent. It’s repaired by honing the stone itself and restoring the finish.
Sun City is a market of its own, and after years of working there we know what these homes need. Most homes have tile going through the entry, kitchen, baths and often the great room with carpet in the bedrooms. In a home that’s 8–10 years old and has changed hands once, the flooring could benefit from professional cleaning.
Two things we pay particular attention to in Sun City:
Walk-in and no-step showers. They’re common here for good reason, and they carry far more tile and grout than a standard tub surround. They also collect hard-water film, and properly sealed tile matters for footing as much as for appearance.
Convenient customer service. We move what needs moving, protect walls and furniture, call when we’re on the way, arrive when we say we will and clean up after ourselves. You don’t have to prepare the house for us or supervise the work.
★★★★★“Very knowledgeable, professional and punctual! We purchased a nine year old home in Sun City, all tile floors with two carpeted bedrooms. The home had been well cared for but the floors needed attention. Mr. Young came out, measured everything and visited with us, made suggestions and then clearly explained the process. We received a very fair quote and all the work was done well within a tight time frame. The floors are stunning! He also did a lovely job on a huge, 40 year old wool oriental carpet. We highly recommend Santa Fe Floor Care!!!”
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Georgetown is an active real estate market with hundreds of properties listed every year. When your home is for sale or lease the floors matter more in that moment than at any other time. Tired flooring photographs badly and reads as deferred maintenance to buyers and inspectors, even when the rest of the house is in good condition. Cleaning and sealing tile is one of the highest-return projects you can do before listing, and dramatically cheaper than replacing the floors.
If you’re handling a sale from out of town — an adult child, an executor, a relocation — Santa Fe Floor Care is set up for that. We can coordinate access with your agent or use a lockbox, work inside a make-ready timeline and send photos of the finished work so you can see the result wherever you are.
We work with Williamson County listing agents and estate coordinators regularly to put together a plan that will have the floors looking their best before the first showing.
Offices and medical suites along Williams Drive and the I-35 corridor, restaurants and retail around the square, churches, schools and senior living communities — they all need regular floor care. Tile and grout, carpet, wood and stone cleaning services from Santa Fe helps improve the impression your business or organization makes.
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You don’t have to pay out of pocket to figure out what your flooring needs. Santa Fe Floor Care provides free estimates for any type of floor care services in Georgetown, TX. Let us know what type of floor you have and its condition to get professional recommendations.
Yes, they’re two of the areas where we work frequently. We’re in Sun City regularly, and also in Wolf Ranch, Santa Rita Ranch, Teravista, Berry Creek, Cimarron Hills, Serenada, Georgetown Village and the historic neighborhoods around the square. The work differs by community. Sun City homes are usually resale make-readies or newly-bought homes with grout that needs attention, while newer construction is more often about properly sealing grout before it has years of soil embedded in it.
In most cases yes, and the earlier the better. Builder grout is porous cement, sealed once during construction with a basic product or not sealed at all, and that initial sealer wears through within a few years of normal traffic and mopping. Sealing clean, newer grout is far easier and less expensive than restoring grout that’s been absorbing soil for years. It doesn’t make grout maintenance-free, but it buys you considerably more time between professional cleaning services.
Yes, and it’s a large part of our work here, particularly in Sun City where homes turn over steadily. Cleaning and sealing tile and grout is one of the highest-return pre-listing improvements you can make, and much less expensive than replacing flooring on a home you’re about to sell. We can work within a make-ready timeline, coordinate with your listing agent and handle everything remotely if you’re managing the sale from out of town.
No. We handle what needs moving and put it back. We’ll also protect walls and furniture as we work, and clean up when we’re done. Nobody should have to prepare their house for a cleaning service, and you certainly shouldn’t be moving furniture yourself.