How much does it cost to replace carpet with wood floor?

Maybe you could take a minute and look it up yourself. Prices will vary depending on type and quality of flooring and installation costs.

Tear up the carpet... maybe you already have a nice floor underneath.

Cost varies tremendously based on what you want. I've found salvaged wood for $1/sq ft. 12x12 isn't very big, so you can probably afford something decent. A big cost will be installation, unless you rent equipment and do it yourself, which I wouldn't recommend. Avoid laminate flooring whatever you do.

If you do it yourself probably not very much. Rip up carpet (free). As someone said, maybe the floors underneath are already nice and you just need to sand them (maybe $100 to rent a sander from home depot), stain them, and polyurethane them.

If you need new floors, the lumber might cost you anywhere from $1.00 per square foot to $10/square foot depending on what you want. You can actually buy prefinished lumber that is already finished if you want to skip the sanding, staining, and polyurethaning but personally I don't think they look as natural.

You can also install the floors yourself but you will need some tools like a nail gun, air compressor and a saw of some sort (miter saw probably best), and it's gonna take you a lot of time if you are inexperienced. It'd probably take a crew of professionals a few hours at most to do this - so if you're not REALLY into doing it yourself and saving yourself maybe $1000 on labor I'd recommend hiring someone.

SVRunner wrote:

Maybe you could take a minute and look it up yourself. Prices will vary depending on type and quality of flooring and installation costs.

Before the internet, people would call around and get some bids.

$50,000

11 year old thread.

Nowadays, there are very attractive faux woods either made of vinyl or ceramics. Depending on your budget and intended use, you might opt for that kind of a more affordable solution

Quite expensive, if you're talking about top quality wood flooring. I'd also highly recommend to monitor the market, and especially the reviews huh. Those left at the official site differ much from those on independent sources, just take a look at 50 floor reviews https://fifty-floor.opinion-corp.com/

Maybe cheaper to get allergy shots?

Scratchy wrote:

Nowadays, there are very attractive faux woods either made of vinyl or ceramics. Depending on your budget and intended use, you might opt for that kind of a more affordable solution

I know this is a super old thread, but figured I chime in regardless.

Personally, I prefer to get "engineered" floors rather than solid hardwood. Solid wood is more expensive, but it's really an inferior product because it doesn't handle moisture as well. The supposed advantage of hardwood is that you can refinish it indefinitely, whereas with an engineered floor, you have a layer of real wood at the top that can only be sanded and refinished a handful of times (the exact number depends on the thickness of the wood). The thing is, people very rarely refinish their floors, and nobody refinishes their floors so often that they run out of wood to sand with engineered floors. The only reason I would go with solid hardwood would be if I had a house that was so high into the luxury range that buyers might turn their noses up at engineered flooring, even if there's no way to tell the difference.

Depends on what wood you choose, but a 12x12 installed with basic oak and finished might be like a grand or so depending on your local market (I live in a pretty expensive area, so maybe less), and price per sq ft would drop for a larger job.