I just got an estimate for $3 a SF to install pergo laminate flooring. Labor only total SF is about 340 SF I am in the NYC suburb area and this price seems a bit high. Is it? Anyone out there have an information on this stuff?
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Depends on:
What NYC Suburb? NJ? New York? CT?
Also, what does it include? Removing baseboard? Re-installing it? Any trim work? Hauling away waste? Picking up material?
$3 X 340 sqft equals $1020.
Thats two days alone or one day with a helper at roughly $60 an hour. That number does not at all sound unreasonable depending on where you are.
Edited 8/23/2006 7:52 pm ET by robert
Its do it your self level.
Tim
im going to charge you 4.50/sf. And then im going to charge you a content manipulation fee. ( moving furniture around ) And then im going to charge you for baseboard removal and then re installing it. And if I have to do any repairs or adjustments to the subflooor..... oh goly that gets expensive too.
All in all.... I think the guys under bidding ya. And if He has, and notices that he did half way into the job.... he's going to cut some coners somewhere.
Good Luck
Stevefaust is cheaper than I am...
and charges for less incidentals...
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its an empty room no trim Westchester county So basically its just laying the floor over a level concrete floor
I say you are getting ripped with out grease
ohhhh that concrete floor is going to be hell on my knees. I can feel it already. 7.50/sf
i'll supply the kneepads
$5.75sf + helper @ 20 hours + incidentals...
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Ok... maybe Im giving you the run around.
Seriously... What are your other bids? You know... the two or three other bids you got.???
Maybe this guy is ripping you off... Or Maybe he's just giving you a bid with the numbers that work for him. Maybe he's really busy.
Maybe he doesnt want the job, but if you bite at this price, He'll take the job. Nothing wrong with that.
If your worried about 50 cents to a buck difference in price... Do it yourself. Sounds like a dream to me. Open room.. no trim, no furniture. Laminant or Pergo type floors are the easier to do than balancing your check book.
GoodLuck
no one else wants to do it they say too small and im too busy to get to it right away
My mother in law once paid a handyman 85 dollars and hour. ( not that I think thats High, thats what I like to charge)
Yeah she thought that was ridiculously high but she paid it. Cause no one else either wanted the work... meaning they didnt return her phone calls or she was just too busy to do the work herself.
So..... in her mind... It wasnt such a bad deal after all.