By Room Size. Installing laminate flooring costs anywhere from $300 to $3,900 per room on average, with sizes ranging from as little as 100 square feet up to 350 square feet.

Consumer Reports helps you choose the best flooring for your kitchen, bathroom, mudroom, family room, living room, laundry room, basement, and more.

Check out the best flooring from CR’s tests, including top-rated options in solid wood, engineered wood, laminate, porcelain tile, and vinyl.

To save on your new laminate flooring, you can do the installation by yourself fairly easily. However, if you’d like to outsource the work, you can expect to pay between $1 and $3 per square foot.

Below, learn how to install laminate flooring, the tools and materials involved and when to call a pro. NOTE: The beginning half of 2021 has seen an unprecedented labor shortage as a side effect ...