Georgia Cost GuideHow much does hardwood floor installation cost in Georgia?
Hardwood installation in Georgia: typically $10 to $13+ per sq ft, the middle half of the figures posted by 13 Georgia flooring companies, collected September and October 2026.
A solid hardwood floor is new lumber fastened board by board over your subfloor. Georgia companies' range per square foot is below, and a concrete slab, damp wood or a tie-in to an older floor can add to it.
What hardwood floor installation costs in Georgia
We checked 618 Georgia flooring company websites.
Hardwood installation cost per square foot
$10 to $13+ per sq ft
Prices from 13 Georgia flooring companies
This is a typical range, not a quote. The sections below explain what moves the price for this job. The dot marks the middle price, and a + means some businesses charge more.
What the job involves
Installing solid hardwood means fastening tongue and groove boards milled from solid lumber across a prepared subfloor. Each board is usually nailed at an angle through its tongue, so the next board hides the fastener.
Engineered hardwood installation is a separate job, since its layered boards go down in more ways and suit more kinds of base. Hardwood refinishing is a different job again, since it renews a floor you already have and puts no new boards in.
What moves the price
- Wood base or concrete slab
- Solid boards are normally nailed to a wood subfloor, and they are generally not laid straight onto concrete. Building up a wood layer over a slab adds materials and labor, and some companies suggest engineered boards for that house instead.
- Joining an existing floor
- New boards that tie into a hardwood floor in the next room have to meet it at the same height and look. Matching the old wood often means sanding and refinishing the old floor too, which adds an extra job to the quote.
- Flat, quiet subfloor
- Boards nailed over a squeaky or uneven wood subfloor carry those faults into the new floor. Screwing down loose spots and flattening high and low areas takes labor before any board goes down.
- Grade and waste
- A lower grade often costs less per square foot but has more short pieces and milling defects that installers cut away, so more flooring is bought to cover the waste. The savings shrink as the waste grows.
- Moisture readings
- Wood moves with moisture, so installers often check the subfloor and the boards with a meter before nailing. A high reading can mean waiting, drying the space or fixing the source first, and that can delay or add to the job.
Getting a quote
Questions to ask each flooring company before you compare prices:
- Is my base wood or concrete, and what will you add under the boards if it is concrete?
- Will you check moisture in my subfloor and in the boards before installing, and what happens if a reading is high?
- What grade and species is this, and does the grade change how much extra flooring you order?
- If the new floor meets hardwood I already have, will it be sanded so the two match, and is that in the price?
- What will you do about squeaks or uneven spots in my subfloor?
- How long do the boards sit in my house before they are installed?
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Where this number comes from
We collect these prices with our own crawler, which reads the public websites of Georgia flooring companies and follows each site's robots.txt rules. It has read 618 of their websites so far. Each range is the middle half of the prices those businesses post, collected September and October 2026.
A price list is what a business says it charges; a cost guide is a business's own estimate of what the job usually runs in Georgia. We never name the businesses behind a range. How we collect and check flooring prices.
| Job | Businesses that post a price |
|---|---|
| Hardwood installation | 13 (all cost guides) |
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