Professional laminate flooring (installed) pricing range?

[airborne]

From quick googling, vinyl seems to start at double the R/m² on the low-end.

What's the difference, seems one is a wood/cellulose based floor boards and the other rolls or ChatGPT seems to think they can both be planks albeit one made from vinyl?

 

[rh1]

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.

I never worried until this thread, did not know there were so much issues with laminated flooring, since I had mainly a positive experience.

 

[rh1]

What's the difference, seems one is a wood/cellulose based floor boards and the other rolls or ChatGPT seems to think they can both be planks albeit one made from vinyl?

Vinyl/Tapyt goes from the cheap stuff you buy in a roll and pay per metre thats sold at most hardware stores accross the country to the high end stuff that looks like wooden flooring.

My township house when I bought it, had the cheap nasty stuff in the kitchen and batroom which I replaced with tiles. Rooms and living room got laminated.

Edit, its a type of plastic.

Laminates is pieces of compressed wood glued together.

 

[Vorastra]

What's the difference, seems one is a wood/cellulose based floor boards and the other rolls or ChatGPT seems to think they can both be planks albeit one made from vinyl?

My understanding is that laminate is just that, hard packed sandwich of materials, whereas vinyl has a sponge/cushion layer or something.

No clue if that's right.

 

[Vorastra]

Vinyl/Tapyt goes from the cheap stuff you buy in a roll and pay per metre thats sold at most hardware stores accross the country to the high end stuff that looks like wooden flooring.

My township house when I bought it, had the cheap nasty stuff in the kitchen and batroom which I replaced with tiles. Rooms and living room got laminated.

Edit, its a type of plastic.

Laminates is pieces of compressed wood glued together.

Does it have a cushiony component to the vinyl?

 

[rh1]

Does it have a cushiony component to the vinyl?

I like walking on the laminates barefeet, and I would say yes it does.

Vinyl, will depend on the type, but as a plastic, its not hard. You would have to feel it yourself.

 

[Neptuner]

Does it have a cushiony component to the vinyl?

The supplier should be able to give you the cross section makeup of the plank. Its generally made of whats called SPC (stone-plastic composite) its like 5mm thick with a top wear surface.

 

[The_MAC]

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.

+1

Vinyl is "water-proof" and much more durable than laminate, especially if you have kids and pets.

The raw floor should ideally be leveled with screed before installation, bumpy floors will look crap.

My installer used self-levelling screed as my floors were ever so slightly uneven (specifically where the previous owner added bay windows).

 

[RedViking]

Having been in the building industry for 15 years and my wife being an architect, we have never , and will never, spec laminate. And of there was something that needs laminate it will be outside anyone's price range and in the hardwood category. Yes, you can minimise the damage to laminate by keeping it far away from any wet areas, but moisture from beneath your floor will also cause disappointment and there are very few South African homes that guarantee that.

Speak to a vinyl specialist with regards to what you want.

If it is completely outside your budget and you are desperate, there are good tile options.

 

[Vorastra]

A lot of okes talking about self-levelling screed. I currently have solid wooden floors (unsalvageable) on beams, not cement.

 

[airborne]

Having been in the building industry for 15 years and my wife being an architect, we have never , and will never, spec laminate. And of there was something that needs laminate it will be outside anyone's price range and in the hardwood category. Yes, you can minimise the damage to laminate by keeping it far away from any wet areas, but moisture from beneath your floor will also cause disappointment and there are very few South African homes that guarantee that.

Speak to a vinyl specialist with regards to what you want.

If it is completely outside your budget and you are desperate, there are good tile options.

Is the vinyl option basically the same think with the planks that click together but it’s made vinyl and not laminate?
Maybe that's what @rh1 has but it looks similar to laminate so he assumed that's what he has because I've also heard horror stories about laminate and even slight water, getting stuck in with a mop normally doesn't end well.

 

[RedViking]

Is the vinyl option basically the same think with the planks that click together but it’s made vinyl and not laminate?
Maybe that's what @rh1 has but it looks similar to laminate so he assumed that's what he has because I've also heard horror stories about laminate and even slight water, getting stuck in with a mop normally doesn't end well.

There are various option. Most of the affordable range is glue on. You get with an underlay that has a click system, very pricey.

@rh1 is cheapskate, he will have laminate.

 

[airborne]

There are various option. Most of the affordable range is glue on. You get with an underlay that has a click system, very pricey.

@rh1 is cheapskate, he will have laminate.

And that's still cheaper than laminate?
Is it supplied in a roll and cut in like carpets?

 

[rh1]

Is the vinyl option basically the same think with the planks that click together but it’s made vinyl and not laminate?
Maybe that's what @rh1 has but it looks similar to laminate so he assumed that's what he has because I've also heard horror stories about laminate and even slight water, getting stuck in with a mop normally doesn't end well.

Nope, got laminated flooring, I will take photos of the brand, as the previous owner left the extra boxes in the garage trusses.

I know the difference between the two. Currently, when liquids spill, it remains above the laminate flooring, does not soak away.

Like I said, I did not know I had flooring problems until this thread.

My wife mops regularly, and no issues so far.

 

[rh1]

There are various option. Most of the affordable range is glue on. You get with an underlay that has a click system, very pricey.

@rh1 is cheapskate, he will have laminate.

It came with the house.

 

[RedViking]

And that's still cheaper than laminate?
Is it supplied in a roll and cut in like carpets?

It is not about cheaper. It is about durability vs cost.

Goedkoop is duurkoop.

Anyways, we are going off topic and I have given my input.

 

[RedViking]

It came with the house.

Well in that case you got a good deal. I wont mind getting laminated flooring if it came with a house.

 

[rh1]

Well in that case you got a good deal. I wont mind getting laminated flooring if it came with a house.

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My laminated flooring is probably the second most durable part of my house, the first is the nice aluminium windows, everything else was cheap/corners cut.

1. Gutters, plastic/broke with a garden of weeds growing in them
2. Copper pipes, whole house was class 0, and not class 1 as required. Frequent pipes burst. Cheaper to pay excess and have insurance replace piecemeal.
3. Circuit breakers were literally chinese branded. Replaced everything.
4. Bathroom walls and floors were not waterproofed, leading to crack walls on the opposite side of showers.

So its been a mission fixing/replacing stuff.

 

[RedViking]

My laminated flooring is probably the second most durable part of my house, the first is the nice aluminium windows, everything else was cheap/corners cut.

1. Gutters, plastic/broke with a garden of weeds growing in them
2. Copper pipes, whole house was class 0, and not class 1 as required. Frequent pipes burst. Cheaper to pay excess and have insurance replace piecemeal.
3. Circuit breakers were literally chinese branded. Replaced everything.
4. Bathroom walls and floors were not waterproofed, leading to crack walls on the opposite side of showers.

So its been a mission fixing/replacing stuff.

And let me guess. All your doors are hollow core with handles from the Chinese store and busy pulling put of the card board doors?

Saw this on a couple of houses we looked at and walked away.


Yas I'm full of rubbish and that is why I am still renting.

Sorry again OP. I'll stop going off topic now.

 

[SauRoNZA]

Skip laminate, do vinyl.