How much does wood floor installation cost?

There are three main kinds of wooden flooring: laminate flooring, engineered wooden flooring, and solid wood, or hardwood flooring, all of which have different floor fitting costs. Laminate flooring is made up of a thin strip of plastic with an image of wood grain on it, atop a piece of MDF. Engineered wooden floors are made of real wood veneer which can be sanded and treated, and can be fixed above a concrete floor. Solid wood floors are whole planks of wood that are nailed down to a subfloor frame installed below. They all have their benefits and drawbacks - in this article, we will focus on engineered wood floors and solid wood floors and the associated floor installation costs.

Engineered wood flooring prices

Engineered wood floors, often known as composite wood floors, are very popular, being hard-wearing and relatively easy to maintain. They do not expand and contract as much as solid wood, meaning they are more useful in rooms like kitchens and bathrooms, and can be placed on top of a concrete floor.

工程木地板的价格根据您购买的产品的风格和质量而有所不同。在最便宜的情况下，你可能会以每平方米20英镑左右的价格购买工程木地板，而对于一种非常高端的产品，价格可能会升至每平方米50英镑左右。根据经验，安装木地板的成本通常被认为是产品价格的两倍，然而，对于非常昂贵的地板，这并不完全正确——我们预计安装成本大约为每平方米15到30英镑，这取决于你住在哪里，以及工作的规模和复杂性。地板装修服务也会有额外的费用，如衬垫，你可以在下面阅读更多。对于一个500万× 500万的房间来说，安装一个工程木地板，地板本身每平方米的成本是30英镑，安装每平方米的成本是20英镑，考虑到其他费用，成本约为1400英镑。

Hardwood flooring prices

硬木地板使用真正的木板来创建一个令人印象深刻和坚实的地板。可以使用的木材有很多种，从橡木、枫木到松木和胡桃木，每一种都有不同的可能的饰面和处理方法。它们可能需要一些维护，比如打蜡或上光漆，以保持它们的最佳状态，但它们可以使用几十年，并经常为物业增值。

As you may expect, solid wood floors are more expensive than their engineered counterparts. Cheaper woods, such as pine, can be found for under £30 per square metre, but rarer and more high quality woods like walnut can cost in excess of £80 per square metre for the best quality examples. With fitting costs, this can mean a 5m x 5m room could cost around £2,750 using top-end materials.

Other flooring installation costs to consider

There are a number of other elements to laying a wooden floor that can contribute to the final hard floor installation price of the job, depending on your particular situation.

If you are removing carpet prior to laying a new floor, tradespeople will typically charge for removing and disposing of this, though it is something you can do yourself. Similarly removing skirting boards is often necessary to ensure a neater finish - and if you have to buy new skirting boards, or wooden beading, this will incur an extra material cost, of around £5 to £10 per metre depending on the material. Door trimming can cost around £50 per door.

If the floor where you need to lay the wood is uneven, yourflooring fittermay need to level it using screed, which can cost up to £20 per square metre depending on how much work needs to be done. Underlay can also be put down to help beneath a wooden floor, which is typically less than £5 per square metre, while a damp proof membrane, which can be laid over a concrete sub-floor to protect the wood, is usually only around £20 for an average room.

It is also worth remembering that you will always need to order extra flooring than the exact dimensions of your room suggest - a good rule of thumb is ordering 10% extra than needed, to cover all eventualities.