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Flooring Cost Calculator

Build a flooring project estimate using your own prices. Enter your project area, choose a waste allowance, then add whichever costs you know — material, installation, removal, preparation, underlayment, trim and other project expenses.

FloorGauge does not fill in flooring prices for you. Every dollar figure in your result comes from what you enter.

Project area

Enter the actual floor area being covered. Waste increases the flooring you buy, but it does not automatically increase installation labor.

The actual area of floor being installed.

sq. ft.

Material waste allowance

10% is a common starting allowance for many standard flooring layouts, but the appropriate waste allowance depends on room size, flooring type, product dimensions, layout and installation pattern.

Layout / project type

This changes the guidance shown, not your waste percentage.

10% is a common starting allowance for many standard layouts. Adjust it if your rooms, product size or pattern suggest otherwise.

Waste allowance

Your prices

Every price is optional and starts blank. FloorGauge does not fill in national averages — enter only the prices you know or want to plan around.

Applied to the flooring you purchase, including waste.

$/sq. ft.

Applied to your actual project area, not to waste material.

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Entered as a flat amount. Preparation varies too much by site condition to estimate from square footage.

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Trim quick estimate

Optional. Plan baseboard, quarter round or shoe molding.

Will this project need baseboard, quarter round or shoe molding?

Other project costs

All optional and entered as flat amounts. Leave anything blank that does not apply.

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