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Default Is our builder gouging us on hardwood?

"Licorice Tattoo" wrote in message
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Great Room
353.5 sq ft
$5192

This comes to $14.69/sq ft. Does this seem high? Here are the floor
we chose:
http://www.nextag.com/CAPELLA-Standa...99/prices-html.
This is prefinished maple flooring, which has about 5 layers.
According to that price, they are charging over $8/sq ft for
installation.


We remodeled our house a few years ago and paid $8/sq ft for solid red oak
strip flooring, installed and finished.

One would naively think that prefinished flooring would be less expensive,
but...