What Should Flooring Cost in South Florida?

Key takeaways
– Installed, done right: luxury vinyl plank runs about $6–$9 a square foot, laminate about $5–$8, and porcelain tile about $10–$16.
– The material you pick is only part of the number. Demo, haul-away, floor prep, baseboards, and transitions are in every honest flooring price.
– A quote that only prices the plank or the tile is not a flooring price. It’s half of one.

The Short Answer

Flooring gets quoted by the square foot, so here are the square-foot numbers — installed, by a licensed contractor, in South Florida, with the full job included:

• Luxury vinyl plank (LVP): about $6–$9 per square foot
• Laminate: about $5–$8 per square foot
• Porcelain tile: about $10–$16 per square foot

So a 500-square-foot living area in LVP lands roughly between $3,000 and $4,500. The same area in tile lands between $5,000 and $8,000. Which end of the range you land on is decided mostly by the material you choose — the same floor gets $2-a-foot plank or $8-a-foot plank, $2 tile or $25 tile — while the work underneath it stays the same.

What “Installed” Has to Include

This is where flooring quotes fall apart, so read any quote against this list. A real flooring price includes every step here:

• Demo and haul-away. The old floor comes up and leaves with the contractor. Tile demo is heavy, dusty work and costs real money — if a quote doesn’t mention it, it isn’t in there.
• Subfloor prep. The new floor is only as good as what’s under it. Grinding high spots, leveling low ones, and repairing damaged sections happen before a single plank or tile goes down.
• Underlayment and moisture protection. Florida slabs hold moisture. The right underlayment or moisture barrier for your floor and your slab is part of the job, not an upgrade.
• The material itself. Priced at the tier you selected.
• Install labor. Click-lock plank, glued or nailed product, or tile set in thinset with grout — each has its own labor, and tile’s is the heaviest.
• Baseboards and transitions. Floors end at walls and doorways. New baseboard (or removing and reinstalling yours) and the transition strips where your floor meets another surface finish the job.
• Cleanup. The room comes back to you swept, wiped, and ready to live in.

If a number is dramatically lower than the ranges above, one of those lines is missing. It doesn’t disappear — it shows up later as a change order or as a floor that fails early.

Why Tile Costs More Than Plank

Same room, same square footage, different job. Plank floats or clicks over a prepared slab in long runs. Tile is set piece by piece — layout, cuts, thinset, leveling, grout, sealing where the tile calls for it — and the floor under it has to be flatter, because tile shows every wave in the slab. More hours, more setting materials, more demo weight going out the door. The price difference is the work, and the work is visible in the finished floor for decades.

What Moves Your Number

• Your material tier. The biggest lever, and it’s yours. Value tile at $2–4 a foot, mid-range at $5–10, statement tile at $15–25 and beyond — the labor barely changes, the materials line does.
• How much demo. Carpet comes up in an hour. Old tile has to be hammered off the slab and hauled by the ton.
• The condition of the slab. A flat, sound slab keeps you at the low end. Cracks, waves, and old adhesive push prep — and price — up.
• Rooms and cuts. Open areas run fast. Hallways, closets, and angles mean cuts, and cuts mean hours.
• Baseboards. Reusing yours saves money. New baseboard throughout, painted and caulked, adds a real line — and finishes the room properly.

Get Your Floor’s Actual Number

Measure your rooms — or better, let us measure them off your video. Record the space on your phone, walk it so we can see the size and the current floor, say what you want down, and text it to (561) 462-9293. We send back an itemized estimate with the full scope in writing — demo, prep, material, labor, baseboards, every line. Free. The full explanation is on our Scan Estimate page.

In Palm Beach or Broward, a free in-home measure confirms it and turns it into a written price good for fourteen days. Anywhere else, take our number and make your contractor show you the same lines before you sign anything.

Onel Construction LLC — licensed general contractor, CGC1511492. Our numbers come from twenty-five years of licensed Florida contracting and tens of thousands of estimates written. Experience, priced line by line.

Financing is available on everything we do. Payments start at $120 a month on smaller jobs, and most projects land in the low $200s to $300s a month with approved credit. Rates run as low as 4.49% APR for qualified buyers. Ask at the free measure and we’ll lay the options out in writing, next to the estimate.

Insurance savings vary by carrier, policy, and home — figures shown are ‘up to’ amounts, not guarantees. Grant eligibility, amounts, and funding availability are determined by the program and may change. Financing subject to lender approval; rates and payments vary by credit profile. All financing examples assume approved credit through our financing partner.