Foro GeneralI have been in construction long enough to know that flooring is one of those scopes that almost nobody budgets correctly on the first try. And what frustrates me is that it is not even the most complicated part of a project. Yet somehow the final flooring bill almost always comes in higher than what anyone expected at the start.
I have been trying to figure out why this keeps happening across so many different projects and teams. Is it because people underestimate waste? Is it because subfloor conditions get ignored until demo? Or is it simply that most people are just guessing at square footage without actually accounting for room transitions, pattern direction, and material cuts?
We recently started using a dedicated flooring cost estimator instead of doing rough calculations in house and the difference in accuracy was immediately noticeable. Early numbers became something we could actually stand behind in front of a client instead of quietly padding with contingency and hoping for the best.
Curious whether others have had the same experience or if there is a team out there that has genuinely cracked the code on getting flooring estimates right from the start. What changed things for you and what were you doing before that was not working?
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