Professional laminate flooring (installed) pricing range?

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Okes in Durban, but other places are fine, can anyone give me a ballpark on what to expect for the fully installed pricing for professionally installed laminated flooring? I'm talking, ripping up old flooring, laying plywood subflooring, then laying laminate.

Before I spend half a day phoning all these okes...

What we talking here for price per square meters more or less?
 
RedViking said:
Sorry I don't have a contact, but I would highly recommended NOT to use laminated flooring and spend a bit extra and get vinyl flooring.
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I disagree, mainly base of my own experience.

Laminate flooring generally have an 8 year warranty. I bought my house in May 2017, it has laminated flooring throughout except for the bathrooms, no issues as yet, touch wood. If something happens, there are a few boxes in the garage roof trusses.

I am not sure when the previous owner installed, but I am happy with longevity of the flooring.

Vinyl flooring requires flat floors, a previous company I worked for installed wood looking vinyl flooring. It clearly showed how bumpy and uneven the floor was. It did not look nice.

Laminated flooring is a floating and hides the small bumps.

Thread derail aside.

Dont have a price.
 
rh1 said:
I disagree, mainly base of my own experience.

Laminate flooring generally have an 8 year warranty. I bought my house in May 2017, it has laminated flooring throughout except for the bathrooms, no issues as yet, touch wood. If something happens, there are a few boxes in the garage roof trusses.

I am not sure when the previous owner installed, but I am happy with longevity of the flooring.

Vinyl flooring requires flat floors, a previous company I worked for installed wood looking vinyl flooring. It clearly showed how bumpy and uneven the floor was. It did not look nice.

Laminated flooring is a floating and hides the small bumps.

Thread derail aside.

Dont have a price.
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I actually agree and if not done 100% properly you will get bubbles and lifting on vinyl.
 
rh1 said:
I disagree, mainly base of my own experience.

Laminate flooring generally have an 8 year warranty. I bought my house in May 2017, it has laminated flooring throughout except for the bathrooms, no issues as yet, touch wood. If something happens, there are a few boxes in the garage roof trusses.

I am not sure when the previous owner installed, but I am happy with longevity of the flooring.

Vinyl flooring requires flat floors, a previous company I worked for installed wood looking vinyl flooring. It clearly showed how bumpy and uneven the floor was. It did not look nice.

Laminated flooring is a floating and hides the small bumps.

Thread derail aside.

Dont have a price.
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Despite what manufacturers claim, laminate is not waterproof at the joints.. spent a pretty penny on laminate floors with supposedly waxed waterproof joints and have plenty of water damage throughout the floors in the house..

We are ripping it out and going vinyl.. our floors are already screeded and level, so we can just sweep, lay down glue, lay down vinyl and have an actual waterproof floor..

OP, please go vinyl and make sure to have the floor screeded with self levelling screed before installation..

5k labour for 14sqm, includes screeding l, glue and installation but not vinyl.. this was 2 years ago.. larger area will typically see price decrease a bit..
 
WAslayer said:
Despite what manufacturers claim, laminate is not waterproof at the joints.. spent a pretty penny on laminate floors with supposedly waxed waterproof joints and have plenty of water damage throughout the floors in the house..

We are ripping it out and going vinyl.. our floors are already screeded and level, so we can just sweep, lay down glue, lay down vinyl and have an actual waterproof floor..

OP, please go vinyl and make sure to have the floor screeded with self levelling screed before installation..

5k labour for 14sqm, includes screeding l, glue and installation but not vinyl.. this was 2 years ago.. larger area will typically see price decrease a bit..
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My wife regulary washes/mops the floor, no issue with water so far, no discolouration etc. Maybe I have just been lucky, but my living, kitchen area is 12mx4m and is the most traffic area, and no issue.
 
Vorastra said:
Okes in Durban, but other places are fine, can anyone give me a ballpark on what to expect for the fully installed pricing for professionally installed laminated flooring? I'm talking, ripping up old flooring, laying plywood subflooring, then laying laminate.

Before I spend half a day phoning all these okes...

What we talking here for price per square meters more or less?
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Paid in 2021 R400/sq meter that included installation and self leveling screed.
 
RedViking said:
Sorry I don't have a contact, but I would highly recommended NOT to use laminated flooring and spend a bit extra and get vinyl flooring.
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Why, isn't vinyl only for poor people?
 
RedViking said:
Sorry I don't have a contact, but I would highly recommended NOT to use laminated flooring and spend a bit extra and get vinyl flooring.
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Isn't vinyl cushiony? I was looking at that too. Gonna have a chat for both, get quotes. Just wanted ballpark numbers.
 
Jean Claude Vaaldamme said:
Geez what happened to tiles? Install proper porcelain tiles and it will last forever. All these other options is just temporary and will not last.
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Tiles are colder during winter, laminated and wooden floors are much warmer, but since he is in Durban, it would not matter.

I love walking barefoot at home. Bathrooms tiles are cold in winter. But rest of the floors are relatively warm.
 
Vorastra said:
Go on...
I mean I'll ask about tiles, but the fam aren't fans of that for the lounge and such. ¯⁠\⁠_⁠(⁠ツ⁠)⁠_⁠/⁠¯

I don't make the rules, I just open my wallet and dosh flies out.
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Getting the floor perfectly level across a large areas requires skill especially if your floor has uneven spots. My experience is a bad one, unless you confident in the installers ability I wouldnt just trust.
 
rh1 said:
Tiles are colder during winter, laminated and wooden floors are much warmer, but since he is in Durban, it would not matter.

I love walking barefoot at home. Bathrooms tiles are cold in winter. But rest of the floors are relatively warm.
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Well I am in Gauteng and don't have heaters in my house and never thought hey these tiles are extremely cold in the winter.
I would rather take a bit of cold tiles for a month or two each year and never have to worry about my tiles, rather than constantly worrying about water damage to my laminate floor or who is going to wash them and how, constantly checking that nobody do something to scratch my laminate floor or vinyl floor. Scared every time you move furniture around.
 
Neptuner said:
Getting the floor perfectly level across a large areas requires skill especially if your floor has uneven spots. My experience is a bad one, unless you confident in the installers ability I wouldnt just trust.
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Everything has to be pulled, just the beams left, so new sub flooring will be needed. I don't know if that changes what you said.

Shot for the concern though.
 
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