Vinyl Flooring Prices

As has already been a major theme throughout The Vinyl Plaza, vinyl flooring boasts an almost unrivaled cost-effectiveness.

Pricing for your average vinyl flooring is $2-$12 a square foot, whereas the cost for a decent hardwood floor runs $8 per square foot unfinished, and $10-12 for finished. This is significant difference when born out via a full scale project.

Say you are getting 350 sq. feet of your home flooring redone. If you were to go with the cheapest finished hardwood, and not stain it yourself, as the average buyer does, it would cost you approximately $3,500, not including costs of installation. On the other hand, the same size project with the most commonly purchased vinyl flooring would run you about $2,450. This is a savings of close to $1,000 dollars. That is a percent of the overall cost few are able to ignore.

When the average cost of installation is compounded into the overall price tag, the split widens and benefits of vinyl rise substantially. For a 350 sq. ft. job, a professional carpenter cutting a very reasonable deal would charge about $2,800 to $3,000. The cost of installation for vinyl tiles, in most cases is $50 or so. This is for heavy-duty shears and other basic materials needed for self installation. However, for the sake of argument, if someone was going to have a professional install their vinyl tiles, it would cost them somewhere around $800-900. Though, it is important to emphasize, this is the exception, not the rule.

Ergo, total cost differences with average install prices included show a net cost for hardwood flooring at $6,300. The overall cost from store to floor for vinyl would be around $2,500 (self-install) or $3,250 (professional install). The total difference shows that the average hardwood customer pays between $3,000 and $4,000 more than the typical vinyl tile customer.

In times of a recession, where job cuts are in the quarter of a million per month and stocks dip and dive dangerously, these hard numbers cannot be ignored in your flooring equation.

Simply go into our flooring "resources" section on the Vinyl Plaza to find online and in-store retailers for vinyl tiles. The value is in the savings!