I have a small 8 sqm room beside me, but the flooring is really thin plywood with that crappy hardware store carpet on it that was probably installed 40 years ago. The floor is sagging slightly. I want to convert it into a game room. How much does this usually cost, and where would I go? I just want laminate flooring, nothing fancy.
I know nitori and edion do stuff like this, but I can’t find anything on just removing a floor.
Thank you
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We converted one room of our house from tatami to hardwood so we could put exercise equipment in there and that cost about ¥200,000.
> I know nitori and edion do stuff like this, but I can’t find anything on just removing a floor.
Renovation (“reform”) companies are absolutely everywhere.
Type “リフォーム” into google maps and start reading reviews.
Shop around ‘reform’ リフォーム companies. Get a quote from several, as prices are all over the place.
We got a new kitchen installed with oak floorboards. Love it.
What kind of game room? (could make a difference in rehab suggestions)
Simple plan might be to lay 12mm plywood on what’s there (no removal of anything), and then a surface of choice on top of that. Leave the carpet as is, esp if it happens to be glued down. Try to locate the ‘taruki’ beneath the floor that’s there, and maybe use a driver drill and screws into those boards to lay the plywood down.
I replaced a 16 畳 room from a similar bowing flooring with these click together flooring panels. Cost was 300,000.
In the kitchen we have that same crappy flooring, but we paid to have under the floors insulated with some spray foam. The renovators reinforced the weak areas and put in the insulation. To do the entire house with insulation and fixing the bowing, it ran 580,000. It was totally worth the money, the house is much warmer and feels much better than before.
If you do go with a リフォーム company, check if your city hall has any incentives. We got reimbursed 100,000 for both times we renovated because we contracted through a local company