MyOMy

Painting is easy and fun. He can do it, you can help.

Flooring is not that hard if you have all the tools and basic carpentry skills and "READ THE INSTRUCTION". For laminate flooring labor cost, it's about $1/sq ft. For hardwood flooring (with nail, those kind of installation), about $3/sq ft.  

Hardwood flooring is expensive. 800 some square feet is not a big area, you can save money by going to the flooring store to check if hey have any left-over from big order. But, you must bargain with them, you will be surprised.   Most hardwood flooring nowadays come in pre-finished. It is more advantagous  to buy the wood flooring in its original color (no stain, just varnished)  because you can stain to another color after a few years.

MyOMy

Precious, you are right it is a common sense that if you have cats and dogs, you avoid using hardwood flooring.  There's always pros and cons for certian kinds of flooring.  if you don't have radiant floor heat, laminate is a pain.  Besides, if the hardwood floow is fading out, you just need to sand it and re-varnish it, you will then have a new floor.

Rick哥, 灰板我就知, laminate 就唔知 。最貴最平嘅laminate 都差唔倒幾亳子per sq ft。都係光棍佬教仔。 我又聽過話 laminate 啲 aluminum oxide 吾係幾好, 咁你話点。