Price LVP, laminate and carpet installs from your own costs
You enter what your flooring business costs to run one time. From then on, every floor is priced from those numbers instead of a per-foot rate someone mentioned.
- Know what an hour of your install crew really costs Storage, insurance, the van, the grinder and saws, and every wage including yours become one break-even rate per crew hour.
- Price the whole floor, not just the laying Furniture, carpet removal, grinding, leveling, laying, trim and the fridge each get their own hours.
- Still quote by the square foot Plank goes in by the square foot, carpet removal by the yard and quarter round by the foot, and you still see the finished job per square foot.
- Stop giving away the hours around the floor The measure, the moisture reading and the supply runs sit on a checklist you have to answer before the quote is ready.
- Hand the customer a clean, itemized quote Each stage prints as its own line with your deposit and flooring terms, ready to print or save as a PDF.
- See which installs made money The Job Log keeps every floor you quote, won or lost, next to the hours it really took.
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- Instant download
- Excel and Google Sheets
How it turns square feet, prep and crew hours into a flooring quote
Six tabs do the work. You set up the business once, keep your distributor's prices current, and build one quote per floor.
- Start HereThe order to set things up in, about an evening of work before your first floor.
- Shop SetupYearly costs, van, grinder, saws and crew, turned into one break-even rate per billable crew hour.
- Price ListPlank, laminate, underlayment, leveler, primer, patch, transitions, stair nose and quarter round, each in the unit you buy it, with the date you last checked the price.
- QuoteEnter the square feet and waste, then the hours for each stage from furniture to the fridge, the carpet sub and the dump fee. Answer the checklist and it gives the price for the job and per square foot.
- Customer QuoteThe page your customer sees: each stage as a line of scope, the price, the deposit and the terms.
- Job LogOnce the floor is down, the real hours go in, so you know whether the install paid.
What is a break-even rate? It is what one billable crew hour has to bring in to pay the wages and every cost of the business, before any profit. For an installer, that includes the hours spent measuring and returning the wrong transitions, which nobody pays for directly. The true hourly rate guide walks through it.
Prefilled example built-in
The file comes filled in with a made-up flooring company and its $6,637 LVP quote, so you see a finished quote before you type in your own numbers.
The example company is an owner and one helper, with a break-even of $54.91 per billable crew hour. Its sample job pulls carpet from a living room, dining room and hall (about 620 sq ft), grinds and levels low spots in the slab, and lays 20 mil click LVP with quarter round and transitions.
| A | B | |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Part of the price | Amount |
| 2 | Plank, trim, leveling, crew hours, carpet sub and dump fee | $4,457 |
| 3 | Easy-to-miss costs | $368 |
| 4 | Markup, cushion and profit | $1,812 |
| 5 | Price to the customer | $6,637 |
That works out to about $10.70 a square foot with material. The $1,812 is left once every cost is paid, the owner's wage too, and the crew's time earns about $106 per labour hour. The full walk-through is on how much to charge to install flooring.
$368
That is what the easy-to-miss lines alone added to this one example quote. It is about 7 times what the calculator costs. Miss them once and the file has paid for itself.
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Why a flat per-foot labour rate loses money once the carpet comes up
A lot of installers quote a flat labour rate per square foot, like $2, for laying plank. That rate only holds for a room that is empty, flat and ready. Most rooms are not.
In the sample job, laying the plank takes less than half of the 29 crew hours. The rest goes to moving furniture, pulling carpet and staples, grinding, leveling, trim and the fridge. At $2 a square foot, 620 sq ft pays $1,240 for all of it, less than the $1,768 the crew hours and equipment cost before a single plank or bag of leveler is bought.
The calculator prices each stage from its own hours first, then shows the per-foot price at the end. You still give the customer a square-foot number, but it is one that covers the room as it really is.
Moisture readings, supply runs and the other floor costs it catches
The Quote tab won't call a quote ready until each of these has a Yes, No or N/A:
- The measure of every room, doorway and transition, on floors you lose as well as the ones you win.
- A moisture reading on the slab or subfloor before wood or laminate goes down.
- Supply runs for the transitions or quarter round you came up short on.
- Furniture that moves more than once when there is no empty room to stage in.
- Hauling old carpet and pad to the dump.
- Doors that rub on the thicker floor. Left as No in the example on purpose, so the warning stays until you check the doors on your own job.
Exactly what you get
You get one spreadsheet file the moment checkout finishes. It works in Microsoft Excel or Google Sheets, and you pay once: nothing to install, no monthly fee and no account.
- The six-tab calculator, set up for plank, laminate, carpet and trim.
- A sample flooring company, with a finished carpet-to-LVP quote to study before you enter yours.
- Flooring customer terms you can edit, covering how the room has to be left if the customer clears it, and a line that turns rot under the old carpet into a signed change order.
- A Job Log that shows your win rate and which floors ran over on hours, the habit job costing explains.
How it compares
Most owners price a job one of these ways. Here is what each one gives you.
| Copying another company's price | A free estimate template | Estimating software | This calculator | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Starts from your own costs | No | No | Varies | Yes |
| Makes you answer the easy-to-miss costs | No | No | Varies | Yes |
| Shows which jobs made money | No | No | Varies | Yes |
| Works in Excel and Google Sheets | – | Yes | No | Yes |
| Cost | Free | Free | Usually a monthly fee | $49.95 once |
Who it's for: installers and small flooring crews laying LVP, laminate and carpet
It fits owner-installers and small flooring companies of about 1 to 15 people laying LVP, laminate, engineered hardwood or carpet in homes, and anyone charging $2 or $3 a square foot who wants to know what that covers. One installer with a helper or a few crews, a laundry room or a whole main floor, it prices the same way, since every hour and price in it comes from you.
It is not for big flooring stores already running estimating software, anyone who only wants a blank form, or a homeowner working out how many boxes to buy. To see your break-even rate first, try the free true hourly rate calculator.
Stop pricing floors from a per-foot rate you heard somewhere. Price removal, prep, laying and trim from your own costs, catch the hours around the floor, and see which installs made money.
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