Stale The most recent observation is 83 days old. Confidence is reported one tier lower until collection resumes.

About this site

Floor Cost Estimator is published by a materials-only flooring retailer that sells the category this site prices. It exists to answer one question — whether the material price you were quoted matches what the same product is actually advertised for — using observed retail prices rather than estimates. As of August 19, 2026 it holds 1704 observations across 839 products.

Who owns this, and what do they sell?

The operator sells flooring materials. It does not sell installation, does not employ installers, and does not arrange or subcontract labor. That is a commercial fact about the business and it is also the reason this site publishes no labor figures: there is nothing to observe. Anyone telling you what installation should cost is modelling it; we would rather say we do not know.

Isn't a seller-owned price checker a conflict of interest?

Yes, and pretending otherwise would be the real problem. Three things keep it honest. The operator's own price appears in results as one line among the observations, with no ranking preference and no ability to reorder anything. The comparison that can embarrass it is computed on every publish. And the underlying data is downloadable, so the claim can be checked rather than trusted.

Today that comparison is computed and withheld, and the withholding is the guarantee working rather than an exception to it. A comparison is only a check on the publisher when it is run against the whole panel, and on this run 3 of the 7 sellers we track could not be read — the ones that restrict price display or block automated readers, which is the cheap end of the panel. Against what remained, the operator was at or below the cheapest observed price on all 46 of the products it stocks here. Publishing that as a finding would be publishing an absence as an achievement, so the figure returns when the panel does.

The sellers we read published 85,355 distinct manufacturer part numbers on August 19, 2026, and 83,234 of them were carried by exactly one seller — no second price, so no range and no row. The bar is what was left: part numbers two or more sellers both carry, of which 839 cleared the remaining gates. Separately, and against a different denominator: the two ends of the published band rest on 1 and 2 of 1704 observations, so $16.79 is a single listing rather than a market.

Who else is named, and who is not?

The 7 retailers whose listings are read are named in full on the methodology page, so anyone can check the method against real storefronts. What is never published is which observed price came from which of them. Those retailers did not choose to be a price feed, and a per-seller table would be competitive intelligence wearing a consumer tool's clothes. The one price shown beside the seller who set it is our own, marked as the operator's, because leaving it out would be the single omission that flattered us.

What this site will not do

It will never ask for your email, phone number or address to show a result.
It does not sell, share or store what you type; the tool runs in your browser and only the band your figure falls in is ever counted.
It will not publish a price we did not observe, and never a labor figure.
It does not promise a price, quote a job, or claim that any product is in stock.
It will not require you to go anywhere as a condition of seeing the answer.

Editorial policy

Numbers are published with the date they were observed and the size of the sample behind them. Where the data cannot answer a question, the page says so instead of narrowing the question to fit the data. Corrections are published rather than silently applied, and the release version, source digest and generation timestamp are printed on the methodology page so any figure can be traced to the file it came from.

Can I reuse the data?

Yes, including automatically. The dataset is published as JSON and CSV under CC BY 4.0, with a ready-made citation string on the methodology page. Automated agents are welcome; see llms.txt and agent.md for the machine-readable description.

What is counted when you use this?

Usage is measured in aggregate with Google Analytics, and the figures you type are not part of it. The area and the quoted price are converted to bands in your browser — a 1,240 sq ft job is recorded as 1000-1999, a $2.65 quote as 2.50-2.99 — and the raw numbers are never sent. What is recorded is that the tool was opened, which size and price bands were entered, which verdict was shown and on data how many days old, whether the methodology page was read, and which data file was downloaded.

What is not collected: the product you searched for, your quote as a figure, your area as a figure, any account (there is none to make), and any identity. The bucketing is in the site's source, and it is the only shape the events accept — there is no code path here that can send a raw figure.

Contact

The operator's trading name, address and website are not published here. That is a deliberate omission and it costs the reader something real: it is harder to check who is behind the number. What replaces it is the record — every observation, every sample size and the comparison against the operator's own prices are downloadable, and every correction is logged with its date and reason on the methodology page.

Sources & last updated

This page describes the site itself and carries no observed figures beyond the release summary above, observed August 19, 2026. Collection method and limits: methodology. Back to the price check.