Where's a cheap place to buy flooring?

[lanyac]

We went to lowes today, and got an estimate of how much it would cost to get our 1600 square feet house carpeted/laminated (lol) and it was like $7k! I think that's outrageous. It includes just basic installation fees. I don't even know what removal and stuff would cost. Any suggestions on cheaper places would be appreciated!

Laminate: $3.97 + $1.99 installation fee per square foot
Carpet: $3.07 + $0.56 installation fee per square foot.

[spankswife]

Hold out for a special, and try home depot too. Ours does specials like free installation or $99 whole house. Hold out for one of those

[ssmjlm]

Try lumber liquidators for hardwood/laminate.

[dexteroni]

I don't know anything about flooring, but I just wanted to say that I also lol'ed at "laminated."

[dexteroni]

But since I'm here, I will add that Lowe's / Home Depot / Sears are often ridiculous when it comes to this kind of thing. We haven't priced flooring, but we have priced other home services, and the big box stores have all been way higher than smaller companies. I wouldn't be surprised if you got better prices from a dedicated flooring place.

[M]

Check eBay.

We got 5" wide, 5/8" thick solid Mahogany at 3.97/sq ft from eBay. It was a closeout sale or something. They only had about 2700 sqft left which happened to be what we needed to cover the part of the house that we wanted hard wood on. I forget how much install was per sq ft (somewhere around $6000 total I think) but we could have done it ourselves had we known how easy it was.

My parents got the same thing but unfinished for $1.98/sq ft also on eBay. It was a lot cheaper but their install cost a lot more at like $10,000. I dont' know if you can find a good deal like this again on the real solid flooring but if you choose to go with real wood, make sure you get prefinished. My parents unfinished floors were a pain to deal with.

Our flooring also helped us sell our house really quick and at about $20k more than what we bought it for. I found out that the people who bought it from us just sold it for $15k more last month...they said the people were sold because of the floors

[flygirl22]

We bought our laminate at home depot but installed ourselves. At one point they or Lowes was running a $99 install on the click in laminate (which most of them are) and I know that they do the same with carpet.

[thatgirl2478]

try here: www.builddirect.com/

[dr.girlfriend]

IKEA laminate flooring is 65 cents per square foot.

[steph96]

Sept 9, 2012 17:58:35 GMT -5 thatgirl2478 said:

try here: www.builddirect.com/

We used them too. Installing laminate wood isn't that hard as long as you are good at measuring and have access to the tools.

[momof2boys]

We've gotten flooring at lumber liquidators for a good price. And they offered 6 months financing with no interest charges.

[mariesd]

Lumber Liquidators or Floor & Decor

[puppiesandrainbows]

I got my wood laminate flooring at Floor & Decor for $.80/cents sq foot. It usually cost $1.50/sq ft, and it looks really nice in person. Then I found a flooring installer on Craigslist for $1.25/sq ft. So for 700 sq ft of flooring I paid $650 including tax and padding, and $875 for install, which included him moving my furniture around and removing the old carpet.

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Sept 9, 2012 21:42:32 GMT -5 mariesd said:

Lumber Liquidators or Floor & Decor

This is exactly what I was going to say. We've purchased flooding ourselves (and also install ourselves).

ETA: Was I drunk when I wrote this? lol. I meant to say we have purchased flooring at both stores.

[zaragoza]

We got our laminate flooring at Costco when there was a coupon. The pad and everything is all attached. We installed it ourselves.