How much should I charge for a small hardwood floor repair?
Determining a fair labor charge for a multi-day hardwood repair — such as patching a floor and framing a fireplace hearth without materials or finishing — is difficult when contractor quotes vary wildly. Without a clear pricing standard, a 15-to-20-hour job can attract wildly disparate estimates, leaving contractors unsure what to charge and clients shocked by high bids.
What people tried
Every workaround mentioned in the threads below. We haven’t tested any of them — and nobody here is claiming they worked.
- 1Asking online forums for pricing estimates
- 2Charging based on estimated days of labor or flat rate guesses from peers
- 3Getting a second and third quote to compare prices across contractors
In their words
Unedited, most upvoted first, each linked to the thread it came from.
“What should I charge for just the repair. I have about 2-2.5 days of labor into it (15-20 hours).”source ↗
“The first person I had out to look quoted me about $6,800 for the job. I know I’m new to this, but this seems like an outrageous price for this job.”source ↗
Where this came up
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