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What type of flooring did you get and what did it cost installed?

14 years ago

Got bid on flooring, picked jaw up off the floor, smacked myself around a bit for being so stupid to think my guesstimate would be on target. Actually a little over double what I had anticipated.

So just curious as to what type of flooring people got for their kitchen and the price installed - you can even throw in your area (NE, West, Midwest, etc) to give an idea of what to expect in certain areas.

I'll start....

Kitchen/Breakfast Room - Colorbody Porcelain tiles - $4900.00

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sayde
14 years ago
NE -- for 170 SF (kitchen and back hall)-- we are using Seneca Select Hand Mold tiles. They are hand made glazed quarries with a rustic feeling. They will be laid in a checkerboard with a border. Tiles, about $3200, labor, about $3000 (includes putting down plywood and Ditra). I think my tile guy is on the top end around here but he did such a good job in the bathroom that I would not want to have anyone else.
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chris45ny
14 years ago
Western NY area. Imported Italian porcelain tile that looks like slate. Crossville. 144 sq. ft. Installed by DH. Complete price for thinset, backerboard, screws, tile, Laticrete grout, Laticrete latasil which divides the kitchen tile floor from hardwood in the DR and hall was about $1100. No labor costs!!
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The $7/sf ballpark is about right. A little more than half of that is material. The rest is labor. And to be clear, that is ONLY for the labor for the flooring. If there is floor preparation to be added (they cannot offer a REAL quote until they walk through your door to see what they are dealing with) then this is an ADDED item. I like to tell my clients to estimate $1 - $4 per square foot for floor prep. Yes. $4-$5 per square foot is *possible....but very rare. The $1/sf prep is also rare. That leaves a mid-range price for prep to come out as $2-$3/sf. So....The $7/sf + $3/sf (just to be safe) = $10/sf. For 220sf of kitchen/laundry flooring, this is not unheard of. Vinyl NEEDS flat, smooth and even. And that takes some work. That work must be itemized and paid for. To get an accurate understanding of "prep"...the floor installer must visit your home. Only then will you find out the prep costs. I am always leery of a quote that A. does not include a visit to the home and B. does not include prep. I'm not saying the flooring store is trying to hide anything. I would bet the $7/sf installed is just that: material + install (NO prep). Preparation is another thing that is added on once they walk through the door.
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laxsupermom
14 years ago
Upstate NY. Durodesign Cork tile, adhesive, & sealer for $6.99/sqft USD. We DIY installed ~240sqft for $1800.
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ceezeecz
14 years ago
We're getting a floating cork floor from EcoCork (in Toledo) installed in both our kitchen and mudroom for $5500 - around 400 SF of area. This includes new thresholds and quarter-round molding, moving all appliances, etc. This is in the greater Philadelphia area. It's going over an existing vinyl tile floor that was glued directly to the subfloor!

The estimates for doing this in ceramic tile were nearly double. Plus the cork should be easier on my knees/feet. And.... it's beautiful!
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susanelewis
14 years ago
Ceezeecz, do you mean Toledo, OH? We live just north of there.
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tracie.erin
14 years ago
The kitchen is getting about 200 sq ft 4 3/4" handscraped oak from LL, so about $800 plus tax. We are DIYing so no labor costs.
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craftlady07
14 years ago
DH just picked up some slate samples tonight. He'll be doing the install himself, but I don't have any prices on the grout/sealer/subfloor/other extras but I can tell you that the local quarried slate (black) is $4/SF and the other slate options (greyish in color and greenish in color) is $5/SF. We have 210 SF so it'll be anywhere from $850 to $1050 not including tax.
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katsmah
14 years ago
My floor was just finished today! NYC suburb. Installation by a great tile contractor I found on Angie's list - $1,500 labor + $42.00 for thresholds. 142 sq ft of Italian porcelain tile, thin set and grout from my wonderful son-in-law who got it for me at wholesale cost of $257. Helps make up for the big bucks I'm paying my contractor.
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deanalj
14 years ago
220 sq ft of oak (3 1/4 inch planks) $1,500 installed in mid-west city.
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megan.p
14 years ago
I love angie's list.
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adh673
14 years ago
We just put in wide plank random width walnut throughout our first floor including the kitchen. It was around 7.25/ft unfinished. We added 85 cents a foot for hand-scraped edges (edges only). The install is was done by our "fixed price" contractor's sub (GC doing all of first floor reno) but I got bids of 3-7/dollars a sq foot install from others.
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willtv
14 years ago
Long Island, NY.

160 Sq. Ft. Montauk Black Brazilian 24" x 24" slate, $800 incuding shipping. Installation was part of full kitchen renovation so no price breakout.
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formerlyflorantha
14 years ago
Kitchen 20 x 26 or about 500 sq. feet unfinished oak regular do it all yourself flooring at Menard's last year $1.71/square foot but there were about two or three bundle-worth of bad boards so we bought about another 40-50 square feet later. Add to that the cost of feeding a work crew, renting the nailer, buying nails, etc. and buying the poly coatings. Haven't put in mouldings yet.

Lobby area 10 x 26 was $1 square foot remaindered porcelain floor tile, plus cost of orange crack barrier, whetsaw rental, a few trowels, underlayment, thinset, grout, and silicone goo for perimeter.
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midgetmadre
14 years ago
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