How much does new flooring cost?
A flooring job is priced from four things: the material you choose, the size and shape of the rooms, what has to be removed first, and how much work the subfloor needs before anything goes down. The material is the number people shop on. The subfloor is the number that surprises them. We do not publish a per-square-foot rate because the prep under two identical rooms can be completely different, so you get a written price that covers all of it before we start.
The material sets the starting point
Carpet and laminate sit at the low end. Luxury vinyl plank sits in the middle, with a wide spread between thin click-lock and rigid-core commercial plank. Engineered wood costs more than LVP, solid hardwood more again, and tile depends heavily on the tile itself and the pattern.
Refinishing an existing hardwood floor is a different job from installing a new one, priced by the area sanded and the number of finish coats, and it is usually less than new wood when the boards are sound.
The material is the easy part to compare. Two estimates with the same product can still be far apart because of what comes next.
The room, not just the square footage
A rectangular room with two doorways is quick. A room with closets, angled walls, a fireplace hearth and a stair landing is not, and the waste factor on material goes up with every cut. Stairs are priced per tread, not by area, because each one is fitted on its own.
Transitions matter too. Every doorway where the new floor meets a different material or a different height needs a transition strip or a flush reducer, and a floor with ten doorways has ten of them.
What has to come out first
Carpet and pad come up fast. Glued-down vinyl and old adhesive do not. Ceramic tile on a mortar bed is the slowest of all and produces the most debris. Removal and disposal belong in the estimate as their own line, and if they are missing, ask.
What is under the old floor is unknown until it is up. A clear estimate says what happens if the subfloor underneath turns out to need work, rather than leaving that for the morning of the install.
The subfloor is where the price moves
Every floor sits on something. A concrete slab has to be tested for moisture before wood, laminate or glue-down plank goes on it, and a slab that reads high needs a mitigation coating or a vapor barrier that was not in the original number. A slab or a plywood subfloor that is out of flat needs levelling compound, and a floor that was never flat telegraphs through plank as peaking seams and through tile as cracked grout.
A soft spot near a bathroom, a dishwasher or an exterior door usually means water damage to the subfloor, and that section has to be cut out and replaced before anything goes over it. Covering it is how a new floor fails in a year.
This is why we check the subfloor before the price is final. The estimate you get covers the prep the floor actually needs, not the prep we hoped it would need.
Why we do not publish a range
A per-square-foot number is only honest if it names the product, the removal and the prep it includes, and at that point it is an estimate, not a rate. The spread between a flat new slab in a townhouse and a 1950s basement with moisture and a dip in the middle is wide enough that one published number would mislead more people than it helped.
Send room sizes and the floor you are considering through the estimate form, or ask us to measure. You get a written price covering material, removal, prep, install, transitions and trim, and it does not move once we arrive. The estimate is free.
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