How to get a cost estimate for replacing my floor?

I recently had carpet laid on about 1200 square feet and it ran $4700. It was a medium grade, not low end and not high end, with a nice pad. The cost includes the labor. We got the carpet from The Home Depot Floor Store. We had a really good experience with that place.

We've had tile done in a couple different rooms in our house and have gone cheap in our kitchen and more expensive in our master bath. So it really depends on that one. But we paid about $1200 to have our kitchen and breakfast room retiled a few years ago and that includes demo on the previous tile floor. We got it from Carpet Mills. And our bathroom cost a whole lot more than that because we went with really nice tile from the Dal Tile show room and paid a professional to lay it for us. I think it cost around $3500 but we had a shower rebuilt and a bath tub surround tiled, etc. There's a lot more to it in a bathroom. And you may not be doing all of that. The quality difference in the two jobs is pretty visible. I'm just glad the 2 rooms aren't next to each other.

I hope that helps.

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Hello H. just wanted to let you know that my husband does title, and painting,plumbing and electrical work if you want give him a call his name is Ralph Rivera @ ###-###-#### thanks hopefully he can help.

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Here is the number to a friend of my husband's who owns his own company and does all flooring! He did the wood flooring and carpet in my house! His name is John Rocha, ###-###-####. You can tell him that you got a referral from Clint's wife off the web and he will give you a quote. Lowes is so much more expenseive.

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Hi H.- It really will depend on what level of quality you want. I own a property preservation business and we recently quoted a 1500 sf carpet job at around 3000.00. (That is for a low end carpet and pad) My husband is a store mgr at Lowes and they always have great specials on flooring. You should go check it out- they will give you qoutes with no hassle. Take your measurements with you and they will send someone out to double check the sizes if you decide to purchase. When it comes to home renovations I am a firm believer in "you get what you pay for" Good Luck and have fun with it.

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My husband would be happy to give you a free estimate...he does home remodeling. As far as carpet goes, we got a cheaper kind of carpet in our house we just sold, 2600sq ft for $4000. The was from Carpet One.

We just tiled our bathroom and put new carpet in 2 rooms. We got prices from Home Depot, a flooring store near Vista Ridge and ended up using Surplus Floors Outlet on I-35 between Valley View and Valwood. They didn't have as large a selection as the other places, but they had something that worked for us and kept us within our budget.

hi H.,
I don't know about carpet or tile, but we just installed maple wood floors in our entire house (1100 sq feet) for $1600. We did the labor ourselves. I wouldn't reccomend Lowes because it will be more expensive. Look around at different independent tile and carpet retailers in Austin. You can always find tile setters looking for side work.
good luck

hmmm depends on how you do it.....You can go to Home Depot or Lowe's to get an estimate and look around at the type of patterns ect compair shoping. If you have little ones might want to go all tile its easy to clean, last a loooong time .....

If you want to do it yourself, go to various tile stores and see what there. Sometimes you can get a real deal on discontinued floor.

In our case went with fux wood and food it at home depot it cost us about 400 dollers and we did it our selves one room at a time.

In the case of tile, unless you are carpenters or have that kind of backround sweet but if not trust me hire some one it takes a certin amount of know how to work with tile.

Hope this helps
V.

We are going through the house, doing the same thing. With carpet from Lowes, it's going to depend on what grade of carpet and if you upgrade the padding, but we opted for a better grade of carpet and padding and tried to keep the cost to about 1000.00 per room. It ran over with the last one. As for the tile, I found a talented but difficult man to tile our master bath and wainscot the walls with tile. I really shopped everywhere to find what I wanted at a reasonable cost. I wound up getting the tile at Home Depot, the trim tile and chair rail at Lowes and I went to every discount tile place I could find. The final cost was about a thousand dollars, minus a mistake I made buying some trim tile at Builder's Supply that I couldn't take back. We have accounts with both Lowes and Home Depot that are interest free for purchases over 300.00 and that helps us relax about tackling our sweat-equity home improvement one room at a time. I also recommend finding one competitent person in flooring at Lowes who will learn your name and needs and stick with them. Keep copies of everything! Mistakes happen and orders can run late.
Good luck to you!
C. S.

Try Adrian's Flooring (Carpet and Tile). They are a great locally owned company that does all types of flooring, tile, carpet, wood, cleaning,etc.. They just replaced our upstairs carpet witha high end pad and medium to high end carpet for less than Home Depot or Lowes.

They had it all done in one day and they moved everything and left the house spotless.

We were would definitley use them again!! Phone is ###-###-####. website: www.adriansflooring.com

Enjoy!

H. -

Decent tile(grade 3 and up) should run about $3 a foot. Installation is $6 a foot if they don't have to do any preparation such as taking up old flooring.

Decent carpet should run about $25 a yard installed including pad. Taking up old carpet or moving furniture is an additional charge.

Wow! For $5K you could put hardwood floors in!!

You might try shopping Big Bob's Flooring Outlet, 6703 Mid Cities Blvd #4, N. Richland Hills, TX 76180. ###-###-#### Main, Flooring Specialist Shawn James ###-###-####

Theay are the only full service discount store in the Metroplex and they have a 100% guarantee. Probably worth a call.

H., I used Dollar Tile. They do a great job and have a very wide variety of tile to choose from. (showroom on San Pedro) Also, they have tile from $0.79 + I used one of the $.79 tile choices and had about 750 sq ft done. The cost was less than $1200. I highly recommend this company. 2 of my parents' neighbors told me about them and both were very pleased with the price and quality of work, so my sister and I have both used them. I am not sure about the carpet, if you would just like to have yours cleaned... I was very pleased with Aqua Man. Good luck!

It depends on the type of flooring, installation, carpet type etc. I have Pergo floors in my den and bedrooms - it was about $3,000.. I got the cheapest, with installation at Home Depot when it was 20% off... I signed up for the credit card so it was no interest for 12 months, but I sent a payment each month so it was paid off in 12 months.

J.

The estimate of the cost would greatly depend on the type of tile you are using. We used Tile Depot for tile when we did a renovation last summer. They have a huge selection of tile at the price half of what Home Depot or Lowes would charge. They install also. Good luck!

H.,

If you could please give me a call I would love to visit with you on this. I work for a company that specializes in this andif you are looking for great customer service than let us at least give you an estimate. A lot of it depends on the tile and carpet you pick out. ###-###-#### Paul Davis Remodeling you can ask for T. or Royce. Thanks and I hope to hear from you.

I work for Seconds & Surplus. We are a locally owned home improvement retailer. We have two locations 909 Regal Row in Dallas (just off 183) and 124 E. Arapaho in Richardson (just off 75). I would be happy to give you estimates on hardwood, laminate or tile flooring (we currently do not carry carpet) We offer A grade and B grade options at all price points. What kinds of tile have you seen that you liked? What is your color scheme? What type of tile are you interested in: ceramic, glass, travertine,etc.? Feel free to check out our website: www.secondsandsurplus.com
my work email is ____@____.com

The following are on our list of recommended contractors:
DFW Design & Remodeling ###-###-#### ask for Don Triplett
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Flores Installations ###-###-#### ask for Sergio Flores
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Our customers have given these companies glowing reviews. They will gladly come out and give you an estimate for labor.

The cheap ceramic tile at Lowe's, installed, is about $4/sq foot.

I installed it myself for $1 a foot, and it really wasn't that bad. I used carpet tiles in the rest of my house - http://www.carpetbargains.com/ - I'd never use anything else again... my cat had an accident, I pulled up the tile, put it in the washing machine, and glued it back down.

I can tell you that a combination of carpet and tile for my 1500 sq foot house was quoted at $7000... I did it myself for less than $2000.

S.