Installation costs for vinyl/design flooring with adhesive

Hello everyone,

We have chosen design flooring/vinyl flooring for all rooms (except bathrooms and utility room). Currently, preparing the offer is somewhat difficult. We are building with a developer; at the actual measurement appointment, the screed had just been freshly laid, and the matter was supposed to be clarified through direct contact between the developer and the flooring company (there are other identical houses that have already been equipped this way).

However, since this is the last missing offer for us, I generally haven’t read anything on the forum yet, and hopefully this will provide many readers with added value, I would like to ask you about your experiences (reference values) for the installation of vinyl/design flooring. We will have everything glued down since some rooms have quite large windows and the kitchen needs to be water-resistant – optionally, we would install floating ourselves upstairs.

Base information:

Ground floor:
Floating screed
31 sqm divided into 3 rooms (12 sqm, 8 sqm, 31 sqm, all adjacent)

Upper floor:
Cement screed
49 sqm divided into 5 rooms (5 sqm, 13 sqm, 2 sqm, 14 sqm, 15 sqm)

Attic floor:
Cement screed
38 sqm 1 room

Perhaps you have reference values for the installation excluding the pure material price for the planks. This would possibly include the steps of priming, leveling, sanding, and gluing (including material costs for glue). Of course, this always depends greatly on the quality of the screed and the height to be leveled, but roughly the values can certainly be used.

With our vinyl installer, the installation (incl. priming, filling, and gluing) costs €15 net per square meter.

Additionally, there are material costs for primer (€1.50 net per m²), leveling compound (€7.30 net per m²), and adhesive (€5.70 net per m²).

Our vinyl itself, at 2mm thickness, was €18.45 net per m².

I hope I could help you a little.

My brother-in-law already has it and my nephew is getting it throughout the whole house. Since I am also interested in the topic, I asked around: 70€ per square meter were charged for both (including materials).

Thank you both. If you take the 70€ as a gross price and maybe assume 30€ for the floor itself, it comes to similar regions - unfortunately. Of course, you always hope it is less since it is actually a fairly easy floor to work with, provided the subfloor is good.

The price for leveling compound naturally depends heavily on how thick the leveling layer needs to be. For the adhesive, I would have expected significantly less.

We had an offer for Click Vinyl, where for nearly 80m2 including baseboards, installing impact sound insulation, and silicone sealing the door frames, 35 hours were calculated. The hourly rate was €51.30 net.

Just as a reference for you.

In total, we charge 68 EUR per sqm. Net.

But that includes everything, even the baseboards. Vinyl (glued) itself costs 18 EUR per sqm.