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Message: <blockquote data-quote="soonerwings" data-source="post: 1724339" data-attributes="member: 8035">Depends on what you go with.  Laminate flooring is inexpensive and easy to lay down, but doesn't have the look or feel of real wood.  You can get some fairly inexpensive ($3-$4/sq ft) engineered wood that snaps together and goes down easy.  That's the route I took with this house...I just floated it on top of the pad.  The last house I used expensive wood that glued down on top of a moisture barrier that was troweled down on the slab (think rubber cement).  That floor was expensive and a pain in the butt to install but it was gorgeous and it was QUIET.  If you want to do tile you can get the stuff from $1-4/sq foot.  When I remodeled the house that I'm in now I got some pretty nice porcelain 12" tile for about 1.50/sq ft</blockquote>