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Originally posted by inteller
The area is perfectly square (11x11). It will need some plywood subflooring and facing nails, but that is cheap compared to the actual flooring, which I'm looking at is about $1.60 a sq ft. Looking at installation rates from Lowes et al they are showing labor to be about $2 a sq ft. no while that probably doesn't include installing the sub flooring, let's just add on another $1 per sq ft for simplicity's sake. At $6 per sq ft for everything, that should come up to $726 or so. Let's just round up to $750. I'm being quoted $2400 for the area. You can't tell me the staining is over $1600.
I recently went through this for an area about the same size. Did everything myself with the help of friends. Flooring=$700 not including stain, poly, nailer, nails/staples, sander/pads, subfloor,etc...
If you don't want to do the job yourself $2400 might be a little high, but reasonable. Consider more labor if it's not a "floating floor" or pre-finished flooring, because the contractor will have to come back several times to sand/poly for 5-7 coats.