Can someone please help us with flooring?!

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Just completed a garage conversion and realise we’d not actually asked them to do the flooring! Anyway this is what we have (see pics) - can anyone advise on whether it’s mad to imagine that spouse or I take a day off work or juggle small kids at the weekend to floor this room ourselves? We don’t want a carpet floor - we’d ideally like laminate but are also considering good vinyl, Amtico or Karndean.

The purpose of the conversion was to create me my home office so it will be decked up as an academic’s office with a library wall etc but the hope also is - fingers crossed - if my mum and dad survive the pandemic halfway across the world - it would be the guest bedroom for them.

With these factors in mind - and most importantly with our status as total DIY novices - what’s your advise that helps us save on labour costs? Dark, hard flooring is what we are after!

I’ve looked at laminate, vinyl and Karndean and like various things but don’t for my life how to prep this floor or what to do.

Hope the pictures attach - have included close ups and sides too.

Thanks in advance :)

Vinyl with an underlay would be soft, cheap, a bit warmer and easy to fit (I have done a few bathrooms, you just need to measure well and cut in straight lines - I also used sealant around the edges as bathroom but you could maybe use some quadrant around the edge instead). But if you want hard, which honestly would be better, then vinyl is not your friend. What about Bamboo? Check out you tube videos for products you are looking at.

Ground floor? If no underfloor hearing you want a great thermal underlay if laying wood or laminate. It comes in rolls. The difference it makes is astonishing.

Kardeen/Amtico is great and very practical but you need a professional to lay it. It's also as expensive as hardwood flooring.

If you can spare the cash, do it properly now with a professional. It will never be this empty and easy to do again.

If you have run out of cash, I'd get decent underlay and head to somewhere like B&Q and buy decent laminate. The kind that snaps together so it's easier to lay. YouTube is your friend here. Watch some videos before you decide on doing it yourself.

Good luck!

There’s insulation under the floor …
I suppose then the answer really is underlay and laminate…. And working out how to fit it…

Feeling a tad daunted :/

I would go for vinyl over laminate if it’s going to be a bedroom occasionally. It’s softer and less likely to chip.
You can get a sheet or planks/tiles
The sheet you could probably do yourself if a bit handy.

In your Position I would use LVT with a click system. We used polyflor Camaro Loc and it’s been great. Easy to lay yourself as well. You can buy one of those shape copier things from Amazon to help around the doors.