Flooring price index: Flooring Cost Input Series
The median published figure in the Flooring Cost Input Series is 3.95 percent across 2 sources' own pages (range 2.70 to 5.20 percent), read 12 October 2026.
2 of the 10 named sources read in full publish a figure; 8 publish none, read 12 October 2026.
The median is unchanged since 26 September 2026 (was 3.95 percent across 2).
By market
| Breakdown | Median | Range | Sources |
|---|---|---|---|
| marketUS | 5.2% | 5.2 to 5.2% | 1 |
| marketGB | 2.7% | 2.7 to 2.7% | 1 |
Every figure, with its source
One row per published figure: the figure as the source's own page publishes it, the page, and the day it was read. A figure that is not on a page we read is not on this one.
| Source | Figure | Breakdown | Read |
|---|---|---|---|
| US BLS, Producer Price Index programme | 5.2% | US | 2026-10-10 |
| ONS, Construction output in Great Britain, Q3 2025 bulletin | 2.7% | GB | 2026-10-12 |
The sentence each figure was read from (2)
- US BLS, Producer Price Index programme, read 2026-10-10:
Final demand construction prices were up 5.2 percent.
- ONS, Construction output in Great Britain, Q3 2025 bulletin, read 2026-10-12:
The annual rate of construction output price growth was 2.7% in the 12 months to September 2025.
Read in full, publishes no figure
8 named sources were read in full on the dates shown and print no usable figure. They are counted, never filled in.
- US BLS, Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics: Floor Layers, Except Carpet, Wood, and Hard Tiles (47-2042), read 2026-09-12: read in full and no accepted figure on the page
- US BLS, OEWS May 2023: Floor Layers (47-2042), read 2026-09-12: every candidate on the page was refused
- US BLS, OEWS: Carpet Installers (47-2041), read 2026-10-12: read in full and no accepted figure on the page
- US BLS, Producer Price Index news release table 2, read 2026-10-12: read in full and no accepted figure on the page
- FRED (Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis), PPI by Commodity: Floor Coverings (WPU123), read 2026-10-12: read in full and no accepted figure on the page
- FRED, PPI by Commodity: Resilient Floor Coverings (WPU1232), read 2026-10-12: read in full and no accepted figure on the page
- FRED, PPI: Flooring and Floor Coverings Retailing (WPU58C10101), read 2026-10-12: read in full and no accepted figure on the page
- ONS, Construction Output Price Indices QMI, read 2026-09-12: every candidate on the page was refused
Methodology
Every row is a verbatim sentence read from the named source's own page through our fetch service on the date shown, hash-pinned to the stored read (the sha of the page's visible text; the raw page is mirrored to R2).
2 of the 10 named sources that could be read published a usable figure; 8 published none and are recorded as not published, never filled in; 0 could not be read (blocked, dead or unreachable) and count nowhere.
The headline figures (median, minimum, maximum, quartiles) are over ONE figure per source in % (a source's median where its page yielded several accepted sentences), so N counts sources, never sentences; 44 candidate sentence(s) were refused by a reviewer with the reason recorded.
The fuller derivation this dataset is chartered to grow into (not yet what the figures above are; they are each source's own published figure as read): the official cost inputs behind every quoted price, joined into one series the trade does not publish: the BLS producer price indices for floor coverings (WPU123), resilient floor coverings (WPU1232) and flooring retailing (WPU58C10101) - material against retail MARGIN, which lets a rise in a shelf price be attributed to one or the other - beside the BLS OEWS wage distribution for floor layers (47-2042) and carpet installers (47-2041) as the labour input, and the ONS construction output price indices with their published weights for the GB side.
The derivation is the DECOMPOSITION: our own index's median restated against these series month by month, so the site can say how much of this year's quoted price is material, how much is labour and how much is margin - and can say whether a seller's price rise tracked its input costs or did not
44 candidate sentences on these pages were refused by a reviewer; each refusal and its reason is recorded in the review ledger.
Sources (10)
- US BLS, Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics: Floor Layers, Except Carpet, Wood, and Hard Tiles (47-2042)(the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- US BLS, OEWS May 2023: Floor Layers (47-2042)(the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- US BLS, OEWS: Carpet Installers (47-2041)(the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- US BLS, Producer Price Index news release table 2(the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- US BLS, Producer Price Index programme(the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- FRED (Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis), PPI by Commodity: Floor Coverings (WPU123)(the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- FRED, PPI by Commodity: Resilient Floor Coverings (WPU1232)(the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- FRED, PPI: Flooring and Floor Coverings Retailing (WPU58C10101)(the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- ONS, Construction Output Price Indices QMI(the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- ONS, Construction output in Great Britain, Q3 2025 bulletin(the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
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The median published figure in the Flooring Cost Input Series is 3.95 percent across 2 sources' own pages (range 2.70 to 5.20 percent), read 12 October 2026.
2 of the 10 named sources read in full publish a figure; 8 publish none, read 12 October 2026.
Flooring Cost Input Series, market US: median 5.20 percent across 1 source, read 12 October 2026.
Flooring Cost Input Series, market GB: median 2.70 percent across 1 source, read 12 October 2026.
The median is unchanged since 26 September 2026 (was 3.95 percent across 2).
Cite as: "Roofing Quotes UK Flooring Cost Input Series", updated 2026-10-21, https://roofingquotesuk.com/datasets/flooring-cost-input-series/.
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