Flooring installation in Bradenton and Sarasota
Tile, vinyl plank, laminate and wood, laid over a subfloor that was prepared properly first. We are installers, not a flooring store — buy your material wherever you like and we will put it down right.
(941) 241-2503Free estimates.
Run by Nelvin Rivera, who has spent 7 years in remodeling and does this work with his own hands.
We cover five counties. Bradenton, Palmetto, Lakewood Ranch, Parrish, Ellenton, Anna Maria Island, Sarasota, Venice, North Port, Osprey, Englewood, Tampa, Brandon, Riverview, Apollo Beach, St. Petersburg, Clearwater, Largo, Pinellas Park, Port Charlotte, Punta Gorda — and everywhere in between.
Nelvin Rivera with his family. Multiservices Belloso LLC, Bradenton.
The installer you are actually hiring
“A floor fails from underneath. Whatever you put down is only as flat and as dry as what is under it.”
Seven years in remodeling — four in pool work, three in home interiors — and Nelvin is the one on his knees laying the floor. He opened Multiservices Belloso so a homeowner could deal directly with the person doing the work, not a salesman on commission in a showroom.
Almost every job he has came from a past customer sending somebody his way. That only keeps happening if the floor is still tight and flat a year later.
The crew is Nelvin and his brother — the same two people from the first day to the last. Roofing and electrical are the two things they do not take on; everything else inside the house is work Nelvin has done with his own hands.
What we install
One room, one hallway, or every square foot of the house.
Vinyl plank and LVP
The floor most of Florida is putting down right now, and for good reason — it takes water, sand and dogs without complaining. Floating or glued down, with the seams staggered so the room does not read as a pattern.
Tile and porcelain
Floors, walls, showers and lanais. Set flat with the right trowel and the right mortar for the size of the tile, because a large-format tile that is set on ridges is a tile that cracks.
Laminate
A good choice in bedrooms and living areas where the budget matters. Laid with the expansion gap the manufacturer calls for, so it does not buckle when the slab takes on humidity.
Wood and engineered wood
Installed over a slab or a wood subfloor, with the boards acclimated in the house before a single one goes down. Skipping that step is why wood floors gap in January.
Bathrooms and kitchens
The rooms where a floor gets tested. Cut in around vanities, tubs and cabinet runs, sealed where it meets water, and transitioned cleanly into the next room.
Baseboards and transitions
The part that decides whether a floor looks finished or looks laid. Thresholds, stair noses, quarter round and baseboard — put back or replaced, and caulked.
Flooring is one of five trades we run with our own crew, which is why new floors and bathrooms so often get done in the same visit. See everything we remodel, or go straight to drywall or painting.
Tile installation
Tile is the least forgiving floor there is. Everything you get wrong stays wrong.
A plank floor floats over small imperfections. Tile does not — it sits in mortar on a hard slab, and it telegraphs every dip and every high spot underneath it. A lippage you can catch with a bare toe, a grout line that wanders, a hollow tile that sounds different when you walk on it: all of those were decided before the tile went down, not after.
So the slab gets checked and flattened first, the mortar gets picked for the size of the tile, and large-format pieces get back-buttered so there is full coverage underneath instead of five ridges and a void. Layout starts from the sightline you actually walk in on, so the cut tiles land where nobody looks.
Floors, walls, backsplashes, showers, tub surrounds and lanais. In a wet area the waterproofing goes in before the tile — that is the part nobody sees and the only part that decides whether the wall behind your shower is still dry in five years.
Where tile goes wrong
Almost every failed tile floor we are called to look at failed underneath. An uneven slab, thin-set spread too fast, or no movement joint in a long run. None of it shows on the day it is finished. All of it shows within two seasons.
Subfloor prep and floor leveling
This is the part of the quote people try to cut, and it is the part that decides whether the floor lasts.
Most houses here sit on a concrete slab, and almost no slab is flat. They were poured to a tolerance that was fine for carpet and tile in 1994 and is not fine for a rigid plank floor today. Lay LVP over a dip and you get a section that flexes underfoot and clicks; over a hump and you get seams that separate.
So before anything goes down we check the slab with a straightedge, grind off the high spots, fill the low ones with a leveling compound, and let it cure. On a wood subfloor we screw down anything that moves and replace what is soft.
Moisture is the other half. A slab that reads wet will destroy a wood floor and lift a glued vinyl one, and Florida slabs frequently read wet. If yours does, we will say so and tell you what it means for what you picked — before you have paid for material you cannot use.
Included in an install
- Slab checked for flatness and moisture
- High spots ground, low spots filled
- Loose or soft subfloor repaired
- Underlayment or vapor barrier as the floor requires
- Doors trimmed to clear the new height
- Old flooring and debris hauled away
You buy the floor. We install it.
We do not run a showroom, and we are not trying to sell you material.
Plenty of people already know what they want. They found it at a store, they liked the price, maybe it is already stacked in the garage. What they cannot find is somebody to install it properly without being pushed into a package deal first.
That is most of what we do. You buy the flooring wherever it is cheapest, we tell you how much to order — including the waste factor, which is where people under-buy and end up two boxes short from a discontinued lot — and we install it.
If you would rather we handle the material too, we can. But it is your call, not a condition of hiring us, and we are not marking it up to make the labor look cheap.
Before you order
Call us before you buy, not after. Five minutes of measuring tells you how many boxes you actually need and whether what you picked will work over your slab. That call has saved people more than the install cost more than once.
What flooring installation costs
Flooring is quoted per square foot, which makes it look simple and is why so many quotes come in low and finish high. Here is what actually moves the number.
- How cut up the space is. A thousand square feet in one open room and a thousand square feet split across bedrooms, closets, hallways and doorways are not the same job. The cost is in the cuts, not the open floor.
- What is down there now, and how it comes up. This is the biggest surprise on most quotes. A floating laminate lifts out in an afternoon. Ceramic tile that was glued to a slab has to be broken out and ground off, and that is slow, loud, dusty work.
- What the slab is like underneath. Nobody knows this until the old floor is off. A slab that needs grinding and leveling adds material and a curing day before anything can be installed on it.
- What you are installing. Click-together plank goes down fastest. Glue-down is slower. Tile is slower again, and a large-format tile or a pattern set on the diagonal is slower still and wastes more material.
- Transitions, baseboards and stairs. Thresholds between rooms, stair treads, quarter round and baseboard removed and reset. Stairs in particular are priced separately by most installers, so check whether a quote includes them.
- Furniture and appliances. Moving a house full of furniture, and disconnecting and resetting a refrigerator or a washer, is real time. We will tell you what we need moved and what we can handle.
The estimate is free and the price is in writing before anything starts. If we pull up the old floor and the slab underneath is worse than it looked, you hear about it that day, with a number, before we keep going.
How the job goes
Step 1
Tell us the rooms
Call, text or send photos. Which rooms, roughly how big, what is on the floor now, and what you are thinking of putting down.
Step 2
We measure
Free, on your schedule. We measure properly, check the slab, and tell you how much material to order with the waste factor included.
Step 3
Price in writing
Scope and cost before anyone starts, with the prep spelled out instead of hidden. You will know what happens if the slab turns out to need work.
Step 4
We install and clean up
Old floor out, subfloor prepped, new floor down, baseboards and transitions finished. Debris hauled, furniture back, floors left clean.
Where we work
We are based in Bradenton and most of our flooring work stays within about an hour of it. Nearly every house out here sits on a slab, which is why so much of what we do starts with a straightedge and a grinder before a single plank comes out of the box.
Manatee County
Bradenton, Palmetto, Lakewood Ranch, Parrish, Ellenton, Anna Maria Island, Holmes Beach, Bradenton Beach
Sarasota County
Sarasota, Venice, North Port, Osprey, Nokomis, Englewood, Siesta Key, Longboat Key
Hillsborough County
Tampa, Brandon, Riverview, Apollo Beach, Valrico, Plant City
Pinellas County
St. Petersburg, Clearwater, Largo, Pinellas Park, Seminole, Dunedin
Charlotte County
Port Charlotte, Punta Gorda, Rotonda West, Englewood
Questions people ask us
The ones that come up on nearly every estimate.
What does it cost to install flooring?
We do not publish a per-square-foot number, because the number on its own is how people get caught. Two quotes on the same thousand square feet can be far apart and both be honest — one includes taking up the old tile and leveling the slab, the other assumes it is already flat and bare.
We measure for free and put the whole scope in writing, prep included. When you compare us to somebody else, compare what happens to the subfloor. That is where the difference usually is.
What type of flooring holds up best in a Florida house?
For most houses here, a waterproof vinyl plank. It handles humidity, tracked-in sand and a wet dog, it goes straight over a slab, and it can be repaired a plank at a time. Tile is the other strong answer, especially in bathrooms, entries and anywhere that gets hosed off.
Solid wood is the one to think hard about on a slab, because the moisture coming up through concrete is what makes wood cup and gap. Engineered wood handles it better. What is right depends on your slab, your rooms and how the house gets used — that is the kind of thing we will tell you straight when we come measure, including when the floor you were planning on is the wrong one for your house.
Can you install flooring I already bought?
Yes, and a good part of our work is exactly that. You buy the material wherever you like and we install it — no package, no markup, no pressure to buy through us.
Call before you order if you can. We will measure and tell you how many boxes to get including waste, which is where people come up short and discover their lot has been discontinued.
Do flooring installers need a license in Florida?
No. Florida does not issue a state flooring license, and under Florida Statute 489.117(4)(a) local governments are specifically barred from requiring one for floor covering work.
What is worth checking instead is the scope. Ask whether taking up the old floor is included, what happens if the slab needs leveling, and who is actually doing the install. Get all three on paper before anyone starts — that is where two quotes on the same house stop being comparable.
Do I need a permit to install flooring in Florida?
For a straight floor covering replacement, generally no. Permits come in when the work goes further — structural repair to a subfloor, or anything that touches plumbing or electrical, which can happen in a bathroom once the old floor is up.
We will tell you at the estimate which side of that line your job is on, so nothing stops halfway through. We do not work around permits, and you should be wary of anyone who offers to.
Do you take out the old floor?
Yes, and it is priced in the quote rather than added later. Carpet and floating floors come up quickly. Ceramic tile glued to a slab is the slow one — it has to be broken out and the old mortar ground off, which is dusty enough that we seal the room off and run the dust collection.
All of it leaves in our truck. It does not go in your bins.
My floor feels uneven. Does that have to be fixed first?
Almost certainly, and it is worth knowing that before you get quotes. A rigid plank floor laid over a dip will flex and click there forever, and tile over a wave ends up with edges you can feel with your foot.
We check the slab with a straightedge at the estimate, so you find out then rather than on installation day. If it needs grinding or leveling compound, that is in the written scope with a price on it.
How long does it take?
A single room is usually a day. A typical house of plank flooring runs two to four days. Tile takes longer because the mortar and the grout each need to set, so plan on a day or two more per area.
Add a day if the slab needs leveling, since the compound has to cure before anything goes on top of it. You get a real timeline at the estimate.
Do I have to move the furniture and appliances?
No. We move furniture as part of the job and put it back. Tell us up front about anything heavy or fragile — a piano, a big aquarium, a wall unit that is anchored — so it is accounted for rather than discovered on the morning.
Refrigerators and washers we can disconnect and reset. Tell us what is in the room when we come measure and it gets planned for instead of improvised on the day.
Can we stay in the house while you work?
Usually yes. We work room by room where we can, so you keep a bedroom and a bathroom in use, and we seal off whatever we are working in.
The exception is tearing out glued tile — that is loud and dusty for a day, and most people with small kids or pets would rather be out of the house for it. We will tell you which kind of job yours is when we quote it.
Do you speak Spanish?
Yes. Hablamos español. Call, text or send photos in either language and you will get an answer in the same one.
What our clients say
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Measured free, before you order anything
Tell us the rooms and we will come measure, check the slab, and put a real price in writing. Buy the floor wherever you like — we will lay it right.