Flooring quote

ben_m_g

Hi all,

Our living room and hall both have carpet that could do with replacing, I was looking at wood flooring as a bit of a lasting investment.

Firstly the rooms, the living room comes off the hall and I wanted both rooms laid as one (no door bar) the house is still quite new so the walls are all nice and straight and the floor is a flat poured concrete. both rooms together only measure 20 square meters.

I though this would be a nice little job for a fitter, but it has turned out to be rather difficult to get a series of quotes, the figures I have had seem a little off.


Quote 1. laminate floor, fitted up to the skirting boards. carpet removed and disposed off by myself, all furniture moved before hand. - materials, underlay door bars, laminate and fitting £600

Quote 2. Solid wood floor,carpet removed and disposed off by myself, all furniture moved before hand. Skirting boards removed and replaced, fitting only - £850.

Quote 1 was very promising, but I cannot understand the massive difference between costs. I am of course going to get more quotes but a little unsure what to expect now.

MadelinesMum

Hi, I've just been quoted £637 + vat for one room 4m x 3.5m and an L shaped hall for fitting only (laminate). They did not mention the skirts, so I expect they weren't going to fit new ones. I'm now trying another firm.

McKneff

Laminate flooring is cheap as chips compared to solid wood flooring.


That's the answer to the difference in cost.

ben_m_g

That sounds like my first quote is pretty spot on then.

But the cost difference is in the fitting not really the cost of materials, the laminate we have quoted on was 17 a meter, the solid oak in on offer at something like 28 a meter.

getmore4less

If you have good level concrete floors have a look at LVT over laminate.

Some of the newer ones are click and can be laid as a floating floor.

They have small/no expansion gaps so don't always need skirting removing and can be quick to lay.

For the glue down stuff you are looking at Karndean and Amtico and a few others will have to search around for the click their seems to be loads of options from a trawl round a loads of shops last week.

Looks good and has a much better feel than laminates.

bigeasy_uk

The price for fitting the solid wood seems a bit off to me, we charge £15m2 for fitting solid wood and tongue and groove engineered woods, £10m2 for click engineered and £7.5 for laminates. Our total for 20m solid wood supplied and fitted would be £1300-ish.

I wouldn't trust a fitter that says he will fit up to the skirting boards with laminate, you need to leave an 8mm expansion gap all the way around the room and fit scotia or take the skirting boards off.