Lansing, Ingham County
Floors & subfloors in Lansing
The flooring job photographed on this site is a Lansing bathroom that had to come up to the subfloor — which is what most of these turn out to be.
Floors & subfloors in Lansing, specifically
One Lansing flooring job is photographed end to end on this site and it is representative in a way worth being blunt about. The finish was not the problem. The floor had been soft in front of the tub for long enough that the grout had let go and the wall tile above it was moving with it, and the toilet was sitting on wood that would no longer hold a flange bolt. It went back to joists, and the customer supplied the plank, the transition and the toilet, all shown at no charge on the quote. Four Lansing enquiries have named flooring since April and two of them mention water in the same sentence. The practical consequence for anybody here pricing a floor is that a quote given without lifting a corner is a guess — and that lifting the corner properly costs a visit that is not charged for.
On the Lansing record
- a bathroom floor rebuilt down to the subfloor and re-laid — photographed, invoiced and published on this site
- a walk-through with photographs and measurements for a bathroom subfloor and flooring job
- shed flooring repaired and replaced
Everything else this company does in Lansing is on the Lansing page, and the full explanation of this work — what it involves, what decides the price and where it stops — is on General Repairs.
Where this stops
When it is not a handyman job
This is at the top of the page rather than the bottom because getting it wrong costs you a wasted visit. Insured, and no contractor licence is claimed or implied — the Michigan residential builder licence is not held.
- Structural joist replacement is a licensed builder’s scope and is not taken on; a failed joist is reported and referred rather than boarded over.
- No tile-setting on large-format or wet-area installations beyond repair scope.
- Anything under a suspected asbestos floor covering or mastic is licensed abatement work and is arranged separately.
What it costs
There is no price list for this, and here is what actually decides the number.
The same three words describe a twenty-minute job and a two-day one. Rather than publish a figure that is wrong for one of them, here is what moves it — so you can work out roughly which end of it you are at before anybody comes out.
How much of the subfloor has actually gone, which is not knowable from the top and is the reason this work is quoted after a look rather than over the phone.
The room. A bathroom is a small area with a toilet, a vanity, a bath and four transitions in it; an open bedroom is a bigger area and a simpler day.
Whether the fixtures come out and go back, which they usually do.
The material, and whether you are supplying it. Plenty of customers buy their own flooring and that is shown on the quote at no charge.
Whether there is a leak still running underneath it, which stops the flooring job until it is fixed.
How to get a real number
Somebody comes out, looks at it properly, and you get a fixed price in writing with the work set out line by line and the exclusions written down as plainly as the inclusions. Coming out to do that is not charged for, and neither is working out what is wrong. If something is found once a wall or a floor is open, it is priced as a written change order and you decide before the work carries on rather than after it is billed. Materials are supplied at cost with the receipt attached, first-time customers get 10% off labour, and labour carries a one-year craftsmanship warranty.
If this is happening right now
What to do in the next five minutes, and what happens when you ring.
Before anybody arrives
- Press it and photograph where it gives. The soft area is where the story is, not the stain.
- If the soft patch is round a toilet, stop using that toilet until somebody has looked. Every flush is going into the floor.
- Do not put a rug over it. It hides the spread and the spread is the diagnosis.
Call the business line
(517) 505-7135Answered Monday to Friday, 08:00 to 18:00. There is no out-of-hours line and this page is not going to invent one — outside those hours, leave a message with the address and what is happening, and it is picked up in the morning.
On the call you get asked what is happening, what else in the building is affected, and whether it is still getting worse. That is how it gets decided whether this is our job at all — and if it is not, you get told that on the phone rather than after somebody has driven out.
- No trip charge
- No call-out fee or minimum
- No diagnostic fee
- No charge for a return visit
True across all 84 written quotes this company has issued. Most contractors in this market charge to turn up.
Or send the detailsWhen the right answer is not this company
- You can smell gas
- Leave the building and call the utility from outside. Not us, and not later.
- Water you cannot stop
- Your main shut-off first, then a licensed plumber. Every minute of this one costs money.
- Sewage backing up, or several fixtures at once
- A licensed plumber with a camera. That is the shared line, not a fixture, and a cable down one sink will not touch it.
- Sparking, scorching or a burning smell at an outlet or a panel
- Breaker off, and a licensed electrician. Electrical work here is repair and like-for-like replacement, and this is neither.
- No heat, or heating and cooling equipment that has failed
- A licensed mechanical contractor. That trade is not offered here at all, and knowing that in one phone call is worth more than a visit.
Two questions worth answering before you call
Have you actually replaced a subfloor in Lansing?
Yes, and here is the Lansing record that bears on it directly: a bathroom floor rebuilt down to the subfloor and re-laid — photographed, invoiced and published on this site; a walk-through with photographs and measurements for a bathroom subfloor and flooring job; shed flooring repaired and replaced. Alongside that, 185 jobs have been completed and invoiced in Lansing across every trade.
What does a floor or subfloor repair cost in Lansing?
There is no rate card and there is no Lansing surcharge. What sets the price is the job rather than the postcode — how much of the subfloor has actually gone, which is not knowable from the top and is the reason this work is quoted after a look rather than over the phone. Somebody comes out and looks, and you get a fixed price in writing with the exclusions listed as plainly as the inclusions. There is no trip charge to reach Lansing, no call-out minimum and no diagnostic fee, so finding out what it costs costs nothing.
Floors & subfloors in Lansing?
Send the address and what is happening and somebody will come and look. No trip charge to reach Lansing, no call-out minimum, and a fixed price in writing before anything starts.