Cedar Mill Property Repair lays luxury vinyl plank (LVP) and laminate floors, replaces damaged planks and fits transition strips around Cedar Mill, Beaverton, Bethany and close-by streets. A 1,000-square-foot LVP floor costs $2,000-$8,000 in labour across the Portland area, with $4,000 the usual figure (November 2026 market figures) . Text room photos to and we'll send a range.
New planks nearly always mean pulling the baseboard or shoe moulding and refitting it later; that piece is trim carpentry and is priced there. Plank floors are part of what Slava has done over his 7 years of hands-on work.
What flooring work do you do?
- New LVP, click-lock and floating .
- New laminate.
- Swapping out a few bad planks, closing gaps, flattening joints that lifted.
- Transition strips and thresholds where rooms or floor types meet.
Furniture has to shift , the old carpet or floor may need to come up (read the old-floor section below first), and the new surface sits higher, so door bottoms often get trimmed to swing clear. That trimming falls under our interior door work. Portland allows a toilet to be pulled and reset for new flooring with no permit; whether we handle that is .
Not offered: carpet, sheet vinyl, or sanding and refinishing hardwood. Floor tile is a separate service. LVP on stairs: .
What does LVP or laminate installation cost?
Labour only; planks, underlayment and trim are extra.
| Job | Low | Typical | High |
|---|---|---|---|
| LVP, about 1,000 sq ft (market data) | $2,000 | $4,000 | $8,000 |
| Laminate, about 1,000 sq ft (market data) | $2,000 | $3,500 | $7,000 |
| Plank repair: damaged planks, gaps, peaking (estimate) | $200 | $400 | $800 |
| One transition strip or threshold (estimate) | $100 | $200 | $400 |
All four rows are November 2026 figures .
Where a job lands in the range depends on the house: doorways and closets mean more cuts, tear-out and a wavy subfloor add hours, and stairs, appliances and baseboard removal add more. Expect a few days on site for a main floor that size .
A single bedroom or laundry room is much smaller than those rows assume, so it gets its own price . The visit minimum sits on our pricing page.
Both install rows begin at $2,000, so nearly every whole-floor job comes with an Oregon written contract and the consumer notices the state requires. When a small job grows past $2,000 partway through, you get that paperwork within five days.
LVP or laminate: which handles a wet Northwest climate better?
Laminate is a printed image over pressed wood fibre. Water left standing on a seam soaks into that fibre, the edges puff up, and they stay that way. LVP's core is vinyl or stone composite, which doesn't swell like that. Which one goes in which room: .
That counts most by entry doors, where wet boots come in all winter, and beside dishwashers, sinks, tubs and washers.
No plank floor cures damp rising out of a crawl space. That's solved under the house first.
LVP has weak points as well. It can't be sanded back like wood, softer lines dent under heavy furniture legs, and bumps in the subfloor telegraph through.
Can new flooring go over my old floor?
Frequently. A floating floor can go over old flooring that is solid, flat and well stuck down, as long as the plank maker's instructions allow it. The extra height still has to clear doors, the dishwasher and the top step .
Oregon DEQ rules say a home built before Jan. 1, 2004 needs an asbestos survey from an accredited inspector before renovation, and pulling up flooring counts. Owners doing the work themselves in the single-family home they live in are exempt; hired crews aren't. DEQ lists vinyl floor tiles among materials that may contain asbestos, and no one can spot it by eye.
That date reaches into 1990s Bethany too. We don't do asbestos removal (it's on our list of exclusions). How the survey gets handled before tear-out: .
Is my pre-1978 house a problem for new floors?
Oregon's Oregon guidance presumes lead paint in houses built before 1978 until a test says otherwise. Disturbing over six square feet of painted surface per room is lead-paint renovation under its rule, and flooring projects are named in it. Prying off painted baseboard and shoe for new planks passes that mark quickly.
We don't take work that disturbs lead paint. That question comes up in Cedar Hills, mostly built in the 1950s-60s, and in the 1960s-70s houses around Cedar Mill. Whether we can still floor such a house, say with painted baseboard left alone or after a clean test: .
What does the subfloor need before LVP or laminate goes down?
A clean, flat, solid base. The manufacturer sets the flatness tolerance, the wall gap, and whether the boxes rest indoors before install, so the numbers depend on the product .
West-side houses give us two versions. Over a crawl space it's plywood or boards, which can soften around an old toilet or a dripping sink. In a basement or on a slab it's concrete, with moisture coming up from below, and the maker wants a vapor barrier or attached pad .
Rotten subfloor and leveling are quoted apart, under floor repair.
Can you fix a few damaged planks or a gap without redoing the floor?
Usually. A cracked or swollen plank gets cut out and replaced, gaps get pulled closed, and peaked joints get relief. Portland-area labour for that is $200 to $800, around $400 being normal (estimate, November 2026) . Peaking often means the floor went in tight to a wall or got pinned under a heavy cabinet. Swollen laminate near a dishwasher means a leak, which is repaired before the floor .
Keep any leftover box: matching a discontinued plank is the tricky bit .
A cracked or loose transition between LVP and tile, carpet or an exterior door costs $100-$400 in labour, typically about $200 (estimate, November 2026) . A single strip fits a small-jobs visit.
Can I install LVP myself, and does it need a permit?
Lots of homeowners click vinyl plank together themselves. Paying someone makes sense for multi-room layouts where rows have to stay straight through doorways, jamb undercuts, transitions, stairs, and uneven subfloors .
No building permit is needed: Oregon's statewide list exempts floor finishes and carpet, and Portland exempts new floor covering too, though it still has to be built to code.