By the Bouwsector België team, 97 in-house tradespeople · reviewed by Geert Jan Hendrik, director · updated
Having a floor laid in Belgium usually costs between €10 and €15 per m² for the laying alone with laminate, €15 to €35 for vinyl and €20 to €40 for herringbone. Including the floor itself, vinyl typically comes to between €40 and €85 per m².
At Bouwsector België, our four in-house contractor teams lay the floor as the last step, once the walls and ceilings are finished. You will hear your exact price after a free consultation, in a tailored quote.
Want your floor laid once the walls are done? Request your quote
After a free consultation you receive a single quote for the walls and the floor, planned in the right order by our own people.
The difference lies mainly in the laying. A click system is faster than a floor that is glued down, and with a herringbone pattern every plank is laid separately and cut to size.
Floor
Laying only, per m²
With materials, per m²
Laminate, straight plank
between €10 and €15
between €30 and €55
Click vinyl, straight plank
between €15 and €25
between €40 and €65
Glued vinyl, straight plank
between €25 and €35
between €50 and €85
Herringbone
between €20 and €40
between €60 and €100 (vinyl)
Levelling the subfloor
between €12 and €18
not applicable
Average prices in Belgium in 2026, based on public price overviews, excluding VAT. For renovation work on a home that is more than 10 years old, 6% VAT usually applies; otherwise it is 21%. You will hear your exact price after a visit or in your quote.
Let us work it out for a ground floor of 50 m². Click vinyl, including materials, costs between €2,000 and €3,250. Glued vinyl costs between €2,500 and €4,250, and if the subfloor has to be levelled first, a further €600 to €900 is added.
A glued vinyl floor needs a flat base, which is why it is often levelled first. A tiled floor or an existing wooden floor as a base needs more preparation than a concrete floor. We see what your base needs when we take measurements.
Vinyl, laminate or herringbone: what suits your home?
Whether you choose vinyl or laminate, and straight planks or herringbone, determines the price, the preparation and the time the laying takes.
Choice
What it is
What to look out for
Laminate
Planks with a hard top layer and a click system
Choose a wear class that suits the room, such as AC4 for a living room and AC5 for busy spaces
Click vinyl
Laid floating, usually on an underlay
Laid faster and needs less preparation than glued
Glued vinyl
Glued to the subfloor
The subfloor must be flat, so it often has to be levelled first
Herringbone
Short planks in a pattern, in vinyl or laminate
More laying work and more cutting waste, so more expensive per m²
With a pattern such as herringbone, more material is lost when cutting. Allow for 5 to 10% waste with patterns.
If you live in an apartment, first check what the deed of division (basisakte) and the co-ownership rules of the owners’ association (VME) say about noise, and ask the property manager (syndicus) if needed. When finishing a new-build apartment, you pass these requirements on in the consultation so that we take them into account in the quote.
Do you lay the floor before or after the walls?
After the walls. The floor is the last large surface that can be damaged, and plaster, ladders and paint do not belong on a new floor. Skirting boards only go on once the floor is down.
Also wait until the moisture from the plasterwork has left the house. According to most installation guidelines, laminate must acclimatise in the room for at least 48 hours, at 18 to 23 °C and a humidity of 45 to 65%. Similar guidelines apply to vinyl.
How quickly the floor can go in therefore depends on the wall finish:
Wall finish
When the floor can go in
Fibreglass lining paper (renovlies) on a smooth wall
A complete home is papered, filled and painted in 3 days
Thin plaster skim with renovlies
Applying and drying a thin plaster skim takes 3 to 5 days for a home, followed by 3 days of renovlies
Plastering, ready for painting
A plasterer plasters 100 m² a day on average, and gypsum plaster is dry after about 4 weeks according to Knauf
If you choose plasterwork, you wait the longest. If you want to move in quickly, renovlies is often the faster route. Plastering walls ready for painting costs €22.99 per m² with us, renovlies with one coat of paint from €14.99 per m², excluding VAT.
We follow the same order when finishing a new-build home: ceiling, walls, woodwork, floor and skirting boards.
Is a separate floor fitter not cheaper?
Sometimes, per m² of laying. But with a renovation or a new-build home, the risk is not in the laying. It is in the connection with the rest of the work.
If the floor goes in too early, the plasterer and the painter work over it. We then cover the floor, with a protective runner for plasterwork, but taping it off takes extra time. If the floor goes in too late, your move gets pushed back.
With us, we plan the walls, the drying, the acclimatising and the floor one after the other, with a single point of contact. We paint the skirting boards at the same time: painting skirting boards costs €9.99 per metre for 1 coat with us. For a home with 70 metres of skirting board, that is €699.30, excluding VAT.
How do you have us lay a floor?
Request a quote or call us on working days between 9:00 and 17:00. Tell us the m² of floor per room, which floor you want, what is on the ground now and whether there is underfloor heating. In a free consultation we discuss the choice, and then you receive a tailored quote.
If you agree, we take measurements and check the subfloor and the walls. The final price and schedule are then fixed, and we start on the day we agree together. You pay 50% on the first working day, once all materials are on site and we have started, and 50% on completion.
The floor is laid by our four in-house contractor teams of four people each. In addition, our 97 in-house tradespeople finish the walls and ceilings: 40 wallpaperers, 32 plasterers and 25 painters. We work throughout Belgium: Flanders, Brussels and Wallonia.
If a new kitchen is also going in, we agree whether the floor runs underneath it. Having a kitchen installed is also possible with us, in the same schedule. For the whole home, we take on the complete renovation as contractor.
Want to know what the floor in your home costs, planned in the right order?
The laying alone usually costs between €10 and €15 per m² for laminate, €15 to €35 for vinyl and €20 to €40 for herringbone in Belgium. Including the floor itself, vinyl typically comes to between €40 and €85 per m². You will hear your exact price from us after a free consultation.
Which is cheaper: laminate or vinyl?
Laminate is usually cheaper. Laying costs typically between €10 and €15 per m², compared with €15 to €35 for vinyl. Including materials, laminate usually comes to between €30 and €55 per m², vinyl between €40 and €85.
What does it cost to have 50 m² of vinyl laid?
For 50 m² of click vinyl you usually pay between €2,000 and €3,250 including materials. Glued vinyl costs between €2,500 and €4,250, and levelling the subfloor a further €600 to €900. We see what your subfloor needs when we take measurements.
Do you lay the floor first or plaster the walls first?
The walls first. Plaster, ladders and paint do not belong on a new floor, and the skirting boards only go on once the floor is down. With plastering ready for painting, gypsum plaster is dry after about 4 weeks according to Knauf, and only then does the floor go in.
Why is a herringbone floor more expensive?
With herringbone, every plank is laid separately and cut to size. That takes more time and means 5 to 10% cutting waste. As a result, laying typically costs between €20 and €40 per m², more than a floor with straight planks.
By the Bouwsector België team, 97 in-house tradespeople · reviewed by 
