Andrew
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How much a square metre am i looking at to buy this and fitted  Not got the time to do it myself, plus, i'll get pissed off after 30 mins and start using a hammer or something  Bearing in mind, i want a hall, bedroom and front room doing. There quite large rooms (Dad says front room is 17 foot long) but still too small me thinks 
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Icy
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i need to knw too, need some for photoshoot
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Andrew
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Icy, you can get good quality stuff for around £5 a swuare metre unfitted. However, i'm looking at prices fitted
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nickyboy01
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Ranges from £3.99 a sq m to £30odd a sq m Double the price to have it fitted. Add underlay which is expensive and the other bits.
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TimS
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quote:
Originally posted by Peugeot Nut
Icy, you can get good quality stuff for around £5 a swuare metre unfitted. However, i'm looking at prices fitted
£5 is for shit looking at 25 sq plus for average to good stuff.
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Andrew
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quote:
Originally posted by nickyboy01
Ranges from £3.99 a sq m to £30odd a sq m Double the price to have it fitted. Add underlay which is expensive and the other bits.
Do you need underlay on stone floors?
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TimS
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of course you do a stone floor is still not 100% flat, and it will be cold as well.
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Icy
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wantin stuff to look like basketball court for backdrop
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Andrew
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quote:
Originally posted by TimS
of course you do a stone floor is still not 100% flat, and it will be cold as well.
It's quite a new building so the floors are about as straight as they get  However, i see your point so underlay it will have to be. Is it just a kind of ply wood?
Looks like i'm gonna be doing it myself since it costs so much 
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Foz
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B&Q roughly £10 2.5 S2
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Jodi_the_g
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I went to buy loads of this the other day as i have just purchased a house that needs gutting.
But i decided on floor titles (kitchen and bathrooms), and all over carpeting (same colour) for the rest of the house.
with under floor heating.
looks more profession and better imo
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Mistamist
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£17.99 a box (Aqualoc)
£14.99 a box (hard wearing)
Fitted both recently in a mates house (thunda on here)
but usually charge £10-£14 a box depending on job size/difficulty etc
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Andrew
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If i get chance tomorrow i'm gonna go and have a look at this:
http://www.floors2go.co.uk/products/value_loc.html
Meant to last 10 years so if it looks alright i'll get this once i've measured up.
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Andrew
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CorsAsh
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Putting too much laminate flooring down lowers the resale value of a house, so limit your usage...
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Andrew
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It's rented
Might do the hall in laminate tiles, dunno yet 
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Andy_S
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For a fitter to fit it, usually around £8 a metre to fit. So measure your floor space, work out how much it will cost to fit.
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L33 LEG
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is it really that hard to fit urself? i found it piss easy and im not exactly a D.I.Y kinda person 
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Icy
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thought they jus clip in?
anyone got pics of a basketball court floor so i knw kind to buy that looks similiar
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Sam16v
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www.diy.com
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Andy_S
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its easy to fit, it just clicks together, but DIYers dont have the experience fitters do, so the dont know what to do when doorways or how to fit beading correctly. Plus whats the point in spending alot of money on a flooring if it looks shit when its down. I dont think ive ever seen laminate fitted to the standard a fitter can fit it, when its been done DIY.
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nickyboy01
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Laminate flooring is actually made of paper pulp with the laminate covering.
Underlay is essential as it will be noisy as feck and you will get complaints from neighbours if too loud. (serious)
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russb
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quote:
Originally posted by CorsAsh
Putting too much laminate flooring down lowers the resale value of a house, so limit your usage...
ya never know, he might be trying to put it in his car
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MatG
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If you are putting it in a rented house and in fact any home the best to use by far is by a company called ' Quickstep' they do lots of ranges but the best value for money is the 800 range, these come in lots of designs and colourways.
Floors to go will be the cheapest place high street wise to buy it from, dont be fooled into buying anything cheaper as they are simply a waste of money and will end up being a false economy.
Underlay is used on floating florrs for 2 reasons the main reason is so that it does not 'clunk' against the subfloor and making lots of scraping and grinding noises as you walk the over is for sound insulation IE in flats, upstairs etc etc. In terms of cost for underlay you get what you pay for, highstreet wise B&Q do a fibre board that is very good for the money and very effective for sound instulation. The best to use is the green condensed rubber with silver DPM you can buy it from floors to go but they will rob you for it.
As for it being DIY, yes it is easy to do, but to look 'fitted' compared to DIY is a totally different matter, a properly fitted floor will last a lot longer than DIY job.
If you have any questions U2U me or post here, its what I do for a living (flooring specialist) and I an very good at it so I know a lot more about it than the so called experts posting above
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Icy
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so what kind looks more like basketball court floorin then mat
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