Browse Forums Flooring & Floor Covering 1 Jan 26, 2010 10:04 pm Hi fellas , i got a quote from an asian guy for supplying and laying laminate timber floors for 3 bedrooms and a study (50 sqmtrs) for Aud $ 45per sqmtr, is it any good , what do you guys have to say about this deal. Re: Laminate or hard wood flooring 2Jan 29, 2010 10:19 am I'm not an expert but recalling previous discussions, laminate at $45 m2 should be of a good quality. Standard installation cost for timber floors is between $20-25 per m2. Dunno how it with laminate. If the price to install is the same and $45 is the installed price it would look bit to cheap to me. I'd probably try to understand WHAT I'd be getting and doing my research thoroughly. Some time ago "one Asian guy" offered us engineered blackbutt floor at $70 plus $20 installed. After some research (and understanding that there were more superior kinds of timber than BB) I identified an Australian guy who supplies me unfinished Grey Ironbark at ~$42 per m2 and another Czech guy who will help me to install it at $500 a day (or $5.71 per m2 considering his estimate of 4 days for my 350 m2 area to be timbered)... ... built a Promenade with Clarendon. viewtopic.php?f=31&t=25104 20-10-09 - excavation and piering completed ... 12-04-10 - Basins fixed. Connecting to the electrical grid 23-04-10 - PCI 07-05-10 - HANDOVER! Re: Laminate or hard wood flooring 3Jan 29, 2010 10:59 pm It sounds like a fair price but I would try and go for hardwood flooring whenever possible. A much better look and more natural. Re: Laminate or hard wood flooring 4Feb 21, 2010 3:19 pm $45 m2, supply & lay, is pretty cheap. Either he is happy to work for peanuts, or the actual flooring is nasty with a capital N. Market price is more like $60 - $70 m2, fully installed by a respected retailer who will back up the laying and product with warranties and customer service. Be careful. The saying that you get what you pay for wasn't invented for no reason, it's real. Re: Laminate or hard wood flooring 5Mar 05, 2010 9:06 pm mightychristos Hi fellas , i got a quote from an asian guy for supplying and laying laminate timber floors for 3 bedrooms and a study (50 sqmtrs) for Aud $ 45per sqmtr, is it any good , what do you guys have to say about this deal. As Anthony said 'you get what you pay for'. There are lots of poor quality laminates around. The 'look' of them on the floor may look the same as the better one and can be very hard to tell the difference, but there is a big difference in the long term performance. Just about completed a renovation project and hit a small issue that we didn’t see We have laminate floors now where we had tiles before (turned out it was actually 2… 0 4919 5 10459 We are tossing up between a Jarrahdale radiant wood fire (the Pioneer) and a convection wood fire (Innovator or Countryman) but cannot decide on which type of wood fire is… 0 5248 |