Flooring advice - costs

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Hi all. We're in the middle of an extension and I will need new flooring for kitchen/diner, utility and play room. I was thinking of getting the same engineered wood flooring throughout so approx 60m2 but need to keep costs to a minimum. Would it be better to:
a) Try and find discount flooring online/locally then fit ourselves
b) as above but fit the majority ourselves and get someone in for the edges
c) Find a local independent who can source flooring at trade price and use the difference to pay for them to fit?
d) None of the above

Will C be a lot more expensive? I'm finding these types of decision really difficult! TIA

Think about timings. Presumably you can't have kitchen fitted until floor is down? We probably would have put it down ourselves (H is good at DIY) but he works so would have been evenings and weekends (probably a couple of weeks). Asked builder for a quote and it was a nominal cost (£400-500 off the top of my head), meant it was all done in a couple of days and we could get kitchen in much quicker. Worth it to try to minimise disruption.

We've just ordered some engineered wood for our new lounge, apparently it's the best thing for our underfloor heating.

We went to a local shop and found some we liked that they had on offer. It was £30/m2 down from £45/m2 due to being end of line. The saving we made on the product helped pay for the fitting. It was tempting to let DH attempt it himself but was worried that if it went wrong it could be an expensive mistake! Depends how confident your other half is at doing it but it's quite a big area and if it's not perfect you'll forever be looking at the imperfections silently cursing him

Might be worth looking for end of line/over stock. And always ask if the quote is their best price. My DH is so cheeky and I cringe but 90% of the time he gets extra discount when he asks!

Thanks all! I was hoping for £30/m for decent quality if i got lucky - you've inspired me! Also, a good point about time taken to fit it ourselves. It might be best to suck up fitting costs, it's just painful thinking that it'll cost an extra £800 at least. We're already spending 100k so the extra thousands all add up!

I found a great place on ebay. I went to the warehouse/showroom and managed to get bare wood oak engineered tongue and groove flooring for definitely sub £30/sq metre.

You do know you can't fit pre sealed oak wood flooring in a kitchen. You have to go for the unfinished stuff then oil/varnish when it is down

If i remember correctly it was about £23/sq metre.