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How Much Does Engineered Hardwood Flooring Cost?

Engineered Hardwood Flooring Prices

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Engineered hardwood flooring is a relatively new type of wood flooring that has emerged as an extremely popular alternative to solid hardwood flooring over the past couple of decades. The major reason for this is cost. You may purchase engineered hardwood flooring for a fraction of what it costs to buy 100% solid hardwood flooring. Engineered flooring has real hardwood flooring on the top layer of flooring. This layer is glued to a high density fiber (HDF) layer that is far less costly for manufacturers to produce than a piece of lumber that is full thickness. Therefore, engineered flooring costs less than solid hardwood.

Engineered Flooring Costs

The average cost of engineered flooring is $2 to $6 per square foot. For a 15X15 foot room this equals out to be $550 to $1,650 for lumber for a room of this size. You may purchase a variety of engineered hardwood flooring at BuildDirect.

Most manufacturers offer their flooring in 100% solid hardwood flooring or in engineered. The price difference between engineered hardwood flooring is somewhere between $1 to $4 per square foot. For the same 15X15 foot room, you can expect to see savings of $225 to $900 when buying engineered wood over solid hardwood. The amount of savings you will see depends on the difference in thickness between the seller’s 100% solid hardwood flooring and their engineered product. The more wood that the manufacturer can replace with high density fiber (HDF), the better the savings will be.

Engineered flooring usually comes prefinished from the factory. This keeps costs down. Also, because engineered wood flooring has a limited thickness of actual wood on top, keeping the number of sandings to a minimum is vital. Most engineered flooring can only be sanded one to three times before you risk sanding down beyond wood to the HDF layer (which looks like plywood).

The only major cost beside the materials is installation. You can have flooring installed for $2 to $4 per square foot, depending on the neighborhood, company you hire, type of flooring, etc. If you do the project yourself you can get instructions on how to do so here.

Helpful Tips

Pay close attention to the thickness of the wood layer of your engineered flooring. Consider how long you want the flooring to last and how many times you expect to refinish the floors while you are living in that property, etc.