Charlie Murphy said:
Not to derail. What are people paying right now installed?
April 2020 , we replaced about 800 sf of carpet with engineered hardwoods and all in was about $9.25/SF and included:
Demo carpet, tackstrip, baseboards
Floor Prep/Leveling (ended up having to apply floor prep over at least 80% of the area)
Moisture barrier (the entire area received a liquid moisture barrier)
Engineered Wood flooring (glued down)
Baseboards (We painted these ourselves and he installed)
Our contractor was a guy we got word of mouth from a friend. Paid cash/check once work was complete. Most days he was by himself or had 1 or 2 helpers with him. It took about a week start to finish. A lot of that was the cure time for the floor prep and moisture barriers. The area was also bedrooms, closets and hallway, so laying the floors was slow going due to smaller areas and lots of cuts. We've been really pleased with the results.
We moved furniture ourselves.