Are engineered wood floors really expensive?

[Cailleachian]

I had some workmen out today to quote for a couple of different bits of maintainance, one of which was laying an engineered wood floor.

The quotes for the other elements were quite reasonable, but the fitting was £3k, and no that defo doesnt include supply, which would be an additional £7k. The area to be floored is approx 50m2.

Is this reasonable - I was expecting to pay perhaps 2k for supply and fitting. The fact that his other quotes were about what I was expecting has led me to question if my expectations are out of line

I've not noticed this. Where does it cause problems?

We had 25 m² of bamboo flooring in our kitchen last year (autumn 2021). The flooring came from simplybamboo.co.uk and cost about £1000. We paid about £400 for installation - three quotes all came back in the same ballpark. This was a floating floor with planks that click together, so was easy installation, similar to laminate.

The same material is also available to be glued down, including as a herringbone style, but installation for that would cost significantly more AIUI.

We preferred a floating floor because the area is partly the original house with floorboards and partly an extension with a concrete slab and we were worried about movement between the two parts causing issues with a glued down floor.

Beware if you go for LVT the subfloor has to be perfect so the installation costs can be high. I recently bought 60m2 of good quality wide herringbone engineered wood flooring for 2.5K including all adhesives. It was an end of line deal. It was much cheaper to buy than LVT and I can install it myself again unlike LVT.