Description
With this Excel spreadsheet calculator, you can find out which floor really costs less over time. This flooring cost calculator compares carpet, luxury vinyl plank, hardwood, tile, and more by what they cost to buy, install, replace, and care for, not just the price per square foot.
The cheapest floor to install isn’t always the cheapest to own. In the example, carpet costs least upfront, but vinyl plank saves over $5,000 across 20 years.
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
WHAT IT DOES
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
– Measure up to 14 rooms and get your total square feet and baseboard length
– Compare up to 4 flooring options side by side
– Works out square feet and boxes to buy, with extra for cuts and waste
– Adds up flooring, pad or underlayment, installation, removal, trim, supplies, and sales tax
– Set installation to $0 to see your DIY cost
– Includes replacements and yearly upkeep over 1 to 30 years
– Names your best value and lowest upfront cost, and shows how much you save
– Charts show total cost and a 30-year running total
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
WHAT’S INCLUDED
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
– Flooring Cost Comparison Calculator (.xlsx spreadsheet) with 5 tabs:
Start Here: instructions to get you going
Rooms: measure every room you’re flooring
Compare: compare floors and get your answer
Over Time: year-by-year running totals and chart
Cheat Sheet: typical lifespans, how much extra to buy, and costs people forget
– 2-page PDF how-to guide
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
GREAT FOR COMPARING
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
– Carpet vs. luxury vinyl plank for bedrooms
– Laminate vs. engineered hardwood for living areas
– Tile vs. vinyl plank for kitchens and bathrooms
– DIY installation vs. hiring a pro
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
EASY TO USE
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
– Just type in the shaded cells. Everything else calculates for you.
– Formulas are protected so you can’t accidentally break them
– Comes filled in with an example so you can see how it works
– Designed in a calm, neutral palette that looks lovely on screen
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
WORKS WITH
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
– Microsoft Excel (2010 or newer, Windows or Mac, and Excel online)
– Google Sheets (free; upload the file to Google Drive and open it)
– Apple Numbers (some colors and charts may look slightly different)
A computer is easiest for filling it in. Phones and tablets work with the free Excel or Google Sheets app.
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
PLEASE NOTE
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
– This is a digital download. No physical item will be shipped.
– Your files will be available to download right after purchase.
– Results are estimates based on the numbers you enter. Lifespans vary by product, traffic, and care.
– For personal use only. Please don’t share, resell, or redistribute.
– Due to the nature of digital products, please see my shop policies regarding returns.
Questions? Send me a message. I’m happy to help!
Reviews
There are no reviews yet.