State of Flooring 2026
An eight-stat snapshot of how U.S. flooring contractors quoted, scheduled, billed, and collected in 2026 — drawn from anonymized, aggregated data across 1,200+ paid Floor Pro Flow tenants. Numbers are reproducible, attribution is welcome, and the raw stats are emitted as machine-readable schema.org Dataset on this page.
Across 1,200+ flooring shops on VEVVO, the median per-installer revenue ran $184,000 in trailing-12-month 2026 data — up from $171k in 2025. Cross-checked against BLS occupational employment + wage data for Floor Layers (47-2042). The growth is almost entirely on quote-to-close speed, not labor rate inflation.
Source: BLS Occupational Employment & Wages — Floor Layers (47-2042)
The median signed estimate ships and signs in 4.6 days. Shops that send the PDF the same day as the on-site walk close 38% faster than shops that wait 24+ hours. Houzz's annual Remodeling & Design Trends study reports similar quote-cycle pressure across home-improvement trades.
LVP click-lock and glue-down combined now make up 47% of installed square footage across the platform, ahead of carpet (19%), tile (14%), and hardwood (12%). Engineered hardwood is 8%. Catalina Research's annual U.S. flooring market estimate also shows resilient flooring (LVT/LVP) overtaking carpet in dollar share starting in 2022.
Source: Catalina Research — Annual U.S. Floor Coverings Market
62% of accepted estimates include a deposit line (typically 25-50%). Shops with deposit lines see 41% fewer ghosted post-deposit jobs than shops who bill 100% on completion. NARI's contractor-payment benchmarks reach similar conclusions on deposit-secured residential remodel work.
Source: NARI Member Benchmark Data
89% of estimates sent through VEVVO are signed via the embedded e-sign flow. The remaining 11% are mostly insurance-restoration work where the carrier still wants a wet-ink signature on a paper rider. The federal ESIGN Act and state UETA adoptions have made e-sign legally equivalent for residential contracts since 2000.
Source: U.S. ESIGN Act, 15 U.S.C. § 7001
Just under a quarter of all jobs ship at least one signed change order. Median change-order value is $890, with subfloor surprises and customer-driven material upgrades the two leading triggers. IBISWorld's flooring-installer industry brief flags scope-creep and substrate surprises as the two largest margin compressors in residential install.
Source: IBISWorld — Flooring Installers in the U.S. (NAICS 23833)
Shops on VEVVO collect invoices in a median 19 days. Shops that enable ACH and credit-card pay on the invoice page collect in 11 days — eight days faster than check-only. Atradius and PYMNTS B2B-payments studies report similar 7-10 day improvements for SMB trades that accept electronic invoice payment.
3.1% of installed jobs ship at least one warranty callback in the first year. Jobs with documented per-room moisture readings have a callback rate of 1.9% — almost 40% lower. NWFA installation guidelines have linked moisture-meter documentation to claim reduction for over a decade.
Methodology
All numbers are aggregate metrics across 1,200+ paid Floor Pro Flow tenants with at least 90 days of activity in 2026. No per-tenant or per-customer data is exposed. Each metric is computed on tenants who had the relevant data point — e.g. "AR cycle" includes only tenants who sent at least 10 invoices in the period. Outliers above the 99th and below the 1st percentile are dropped before computing medians.
Republish snippets
Pull-quote-ready stat lines you can drop into a blog post, press piece, or industry report. Attribution back to thevevvo.com/research/state-of-flooring-2026 keeps the link signal flowing in both directions.
- "$184k — median annual revenue per installer (2026)." (VEVVO State of Flooring 2026)
- "4.6 days — average estimate-to-signed-contract time." (VEVVO State of Flooring 2026)
- "47% — share of installed sqft that's lvp." (VEVVO State of Flooring 2026)
- "62% — estimates that include a deposit line." (VEVVO State of Flooring 2026)
- "89% — estimates that are e-signed (vs paper)." (VEVVO State of Flooring 2026)
- "23% — jobs that ship at least one change order." (VEVVO State of Flooring 2026)
- "19 days — median ar cycle (invoice to paid)." (VEVVO State of Flooring 2026)
- "3.1% — jobs that ship a warranty callback within 12 months." (VEVVO State of Flooring 2026)
FAQ
Where does this data come from?+
Anonymized, aggregated metrics from 1,200+ paid VEVVO tenants in 2026. No per-tenant data is exposed; every chart is at least 50-tenant aggregate.
Can I cite these numbers in a press piece or blog post?+
Yes. Attribute to 'VEVVO State of Flooring 2026 Report' with a link to thevevvo.com/research/state-of-flooring-2026.
Will you release the raw data?+
Not at the per-row level. We're publishing aggregate stat blocks that match the schema.org Dataset emitted on this page so the numbers are crawlable and quotable.