We have, unfortunately, “cheaped out” in the past on some home renovation projects on which we felt we could reasonably save some money, and went on to regret it. I don’t want to make same mistake, but also don’t want to spend huge bucks over what is necessary to have a nice quality job. We are looking to replace about 2,000 sq. feet of old, scuffed, mismatched, 2 1\/4″, 100+ year old Maple floors (and quite probably quite a bit of squeaky pine subflooring as well) with 5 or 6″ pre-finished hardwood – don’t know what kind yet. We’ve had a few estimates, and they are hugely discrepant. Anywhere from 10.00 per sq. foot, all in, from LL, to $22.00 per sq. foot for really high quality wood from a company who received good reviews in the Franklin Report (and I liked and trusted him btw, but that’s a BIG number!) My question is, what can one reasonably expect to pay for a really nice job? <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
We have, unfortunately, “cheaped out” in the past on some home renovation projects on which we felt we could reasonably save some money, and went on to regret it. I don’t want to make same mistake, but also don’t want to spend huge bucks over what is necessary to have a nice quality job. We…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8171,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"schneps_byline":"","schneps_post_style":"","schneps_post_source":"","schneps_syndicated_read_more":"","schneps_post_source_sitename":"","schneps_syndicated_thumb_html":"","schneps_syndicated_thumb_src":"","schneps_post_source_shortname":"","schneps_post_source_url":"","schneps_post_source_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[61],"tags":[],"districts":[],"class_list":["post-55194","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-floors"],"acf":[],"parsely":{"version":"1.1.0","canonical_url":"https:\/\/brownstoner.com\/forum-archive\/2011\/04\/wood-floor-repl-1\/","smart_links":{"inbound":0,"outbound":0},"traffic_boost_suggestions_count":0,"meta":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"Wood Floor replacement costs","url":"http:\/\/www.brownstoner.com\/forum-archive\/2011\/04\/wood-floor-repl-1\/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"http:\/\/www.brownstoner.com\/forum-archive\/2011\/04\/wood-floor-repl-1\/"},"thumbnailUrl":"","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":""},"articleSection":"Floors","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Nokilissa"}],"creator":["Nokilissa"],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Forum Archive","logo":""},"keywords":[],"dateCreated":"2011-04-13T15:02:50Z","datePublished":"2011-04-13T15:02:50Z","dateModified":"2011-04-13T15:16:59Z"},"rendered":"