Flooring Cost Calculator

How this calculator works

1. Material = floor area × supply rate and laying = floor area × laying rate. The laying rate covers chemical adhesive or mortar bedding, laying labour, spacers and grouting or filling.
2. Removal = floor area × ₹42 for tiles or × ₹50 for marble and stone with a bonded screed. It covers breaking, bagging and compliant debris removal.
3. Levelling screed = floor area × ₹100 where the substrate is out of level by more than about 10 mm across a room.
4. Skirting = running feet × rate. Matching tile skirting ₹85 per running foot, contrast stone or wood ₹160.
5. City factor multiplies everything: Mumbai and MMR ×1.15, Delhi NCR and Bengaluru ×1.08, rest of India ×1.0. Range shown is −9% to +12%.

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Worked example: re-flooring a 700 sq ft flat

1. Vitrified tile supply = 700 × ₹115 = ₹80,500
2. Laying with chemical = 700 × ₹175 = ₹1,22,500
3. Removing existing tiles = 700 × ₹42 = ₹29,400
4. Levelling screed = not required = ₹0
5. Skirting = 110 running ft × ₹85 = ₹9,350
6. Subtotal = ₹2,41,750; × 1.15 Mumbai = ₹2,78,013
7. Displayed range = ₹2.53 L – ₹3.11 L, or about ₹397 per sq ft of floor, all-in and ex-GST.

Overlay or rip out?

Laying a new floor over an old one saves the ₹42 per sq ft removal line and a week of dust, noise and debris charges. It is a genuine option for SPC, vinyl and laminate, which are thin and float. It is a bad idea for tile on tile in a flat: you add 12 mm of build-up at every door threshold, the bond depends entirely on the old floor staying stuck, and a hollow tile underneath becomes a hollow tile forever.

The one case where overlay is clearly right: a rented or short-hold flat where you want a warmer floor for four or five years without touching the landlord's tiles. SPC over a clean, level, sound existing floor does that well.

What this estimate excludes

• 18% GST, shown separately in the breakdown
• Bathroom and balcony waterproofing, and the slope-to-drain screed those need
• Door trimming where the new floor raises the level
• Threshold and transition strips between two materials
• Marble or granite polishing after laying, and periodic re-polishing
• Society debris charges, hoist bookings and out-of-hours labour premiums

The laying, removal and screed rates on this page are what Greenbox measured and invoiced on floors it has actually put down, held at October 2026. The supply column is the tile or stone shop price and is not ours to audit. It is an indicative estimate, not a quotation — the real figure depends on your drawings, site condition and the brands you finally specify.

What has to happen before the floor goes down

1. Break out and clearExisting tiles come out with the bedding mortar, not just the tile. Leaving the old bed in place is what produces a floor that sounds hollow in year two. Debris is bagged the same day — most Mumbai societies will not allow it to sit in a common passage overnight.
2. Check level and fallA laser level across the whole flat, not room by room. Old flats commonly vary 15–25 mm between rooms, and the difference shows at every doorway once a hard floor goes down.
3. Plumbing and conduitsAnything that runs in the floor screed — concealed drain lines, a shifted washing machine point, floor conduits — happens now. After the screed it is a demolition job.
4. Screed and cureA 25 mm levelling screed needs seven days to cure before tiling. This is the step contractors compress when the programme slips, and it is the reason tiles lift eighteen months later.
5. Set out from the sightlineStart the tile grid from the main door sightline or the longest uninterrupted run, not from a corner. The sliver cut belongs under the wardrobe, not in the middle of the living room.

Allow two to three weeks for a full 700 sq ft re-floor including breaking, screed curing and skirting, within society working hours. The flat is unusable for most of that, which is why re-flooring is best done before you move in rather than after.

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