what is the average cost installed of wood floors?
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Just like anything, it really depends on where you buy. If you purchase flooring online, many sites will deliver the flooring right to your house. Buying online can really save you The low price on a laminate flooring product online is about $.69 per square foot. Wood floors and even solid bamboo floors online will run around $1.99 per square foot. Some places give discounts for larger square footage volumes as well.
Labor rates are harder to speak for as they vary by city. In San Francisco, if you have a store like home depot or a flooring store arrange your installation, you will pay about 5.00 per square foot for hardwood flooring. If you pick up the phone book and contact the installer your self and tell them you have already ordered the flooring you just need pricing on installation, you will get the real rate, about $2.50-$3.00 per square foot. Hint: Hiring an installer is not much different than calling the plumber, they are both in the service repair/replacement industry. I just put hardwood in the upper level of my loft, It was a pre-finished floor with handscraping and a custom peg inserted into it (about as high end as it gets from a retail store). I paid $2.00 sf for labor and $5.50 square foot for the flooring, for a total of $7.50 sf.
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Depends on what kind of floor, how big an area it is, how easy it is to work there, how much trimming and cutting needs to be done, how it is finished. Pergo or other laminates are cheaper - you can do them yourself if you want. A solid traditional hardwood floor that's 1/2 or 5/8 inch thick will cost more. Then you can get into a parquet floor, which is made up of small tiles made of smaller pieces arranged in patterns - say, concentric squares, for example.
We had an oak traditional floor put down using random lengths of 5/8ths thick floor, with a shellac finish. This was done in a bedroom and walk-in closet, totalling about 300 square feet. It cost about $1400 last year.
Depends on what kind of floor, how big an area it is, how easy it is to work there, how much trimming and cutting needs to be done, how it is finished. Pergo or other laminates are cheaper - you can do them yourself if you want. A solid traditional hardwood floor that's 1/2 or 5/8 inch thick will cost more. Then you can get into a parquet floor, which is made up of small tiles made of smaller pieces arranged in patterns - say, concentric squares, for example.
We had an oak traditional floor put down using random lengths of 5/8ths thick floor, with a shellac finish. This was done in a bedroom and walk-in closet, totalling about 300 square feet. It cost about $1400 last year.