How Much Does Luxury Vinyl Tile Cost to Install in Phoenix Metro?

What Changes Your Price

Luxury vinyl tile is priced per square foot for materials plus professional installation, and your figure depends on the tile-look product, format and prep involved. The items below explain what moves your luxury vinyl tile installation cost up or down. Your final written price comes from a free in-home measure.

Comparing more than one material? See flooring options, installation, and costs for how luxury vinyl tile lines up with carpet, tile, laminate, and hardwood.

• Total square footageMore floor means more material and labor, but one large open area often installs more efficiently per square foot than several small, disconnected rooms.Impact: can be significantPrice effectOpen, connected layouts help stay near the lower end and are usually mid-priced. Many small, chopped-up rooms can move toward the higher end.
• Product line and wear layerBasic luxury vinyl tile sits at one end of the scale. Thicker luxury vinyl tile with a heavier wear layer, larger-format tiles or a stronger waterproof core sits at the other.Impact: can be significantPrice effectEntry-level product helps stay near the lower end. Premium LVT can move toward the higher end and, on the heaviest lines, toward the higher end.
• Subfloor conditionWhat is under the old floor decides how much work happens before a single tile goes down.Impact: can be significantPrice effectClean, flat subfloors help stay near the lower end. Uneven or damaged subfloors add prep and can move toward the higher end.
• Floor prep and levelingDips, humps, slab issues or high spots have to be corrected first, or the tiles may not sit flat and lock together correctly.Impact: can be significantPrice effectLight prep is usually mid-priced. Heavy leveling can move toward the higher end.
• Old flooring removal and haul-awayPulling up the old floor and disposing of it takes labor and time, and not every floor comes up the same way.Impact: moderatePrice effectSimple carpet removal is usually mid-priced. Glued-down vinyl, tile or multiple layers can move toward the higher end.
• Stairs and landingsEvery tread, riser and landing is measured, cut and finished by hand rather than laid in a simple run.Impact: can be significantPrice effectStairs can move toward the higher end, and a full staircase can move toward the higher end.
• Transitions and thresholdsEvery doorway or change of flooring needs a transition piece cut and fitted so the two surfaces meet cleanly.Impact: minor to moderatePrice effectA few transitions help stay near the lower end. Many openings or mixed flooring surfaces are usually mid-priced.
• Baseboards and trimRemoving and reinstalling baseboards, adding quarter round or replacing trim affects both material and labor.Impact: minor to moderatePrice effectKeeping existing trim helps stay near the lower end. Replacing or adding trim is usually mid-priced.
• Furniture movingNormal furniture is quick to shift. Heavy, oversized, fragile or crowded rooms take real time to clear and put back.Impact: minorPrice effectLight furniture needs help stay near the lower end. Heavy or crowded rooms are usually mid-priced.