Carpet

Dis86 said:
That's them R B. They're about £ 6 cheaper per sqm. thanks!
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No problem. Last place I got cloud9 11mm underlay from was eBay by the way. Delivered next day. Price has go e up slightly since this thread was made but the link is in here somewhere. Underlay is where they recoup their 'losses' on 'discount' so it really pays to get it cheap, and it's erm good stuff. You will pay around £11+m2 for an unbranded equivilent in a big shed. But they often offer fake discount.

Just thought I'd mention it as you're bound to need it!
It's still cost effective to have your independent carpet fitter supply grippers though, they're pennies and they buy them in massive bulk.
 
R B Customs said:
No problem. Last place I got cloud9 11mm underlay from was eBay by the way. Delivered next day. Price has go e up slightly since this thread was made but the link is in here somewhere. Underlay is where they recoup their 'losses' on 'discount' so it really pays to get it cheap, and it's erm good stuff. You will pay around £11+m2 for an unbranded equivilent in a big shed. But they often offer fake discount.

Just thought I'd mention it as you're bound to need it!
It's still cost effective to have your independent carpet fitter supply grippers though, they're pennies and they buy them in massive bulk.
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Ok I'll keep it in mind. Thank you, greatly appreciated.
 
I've just got a quote from a chap who we use for all our carpets.

Came in at £640 inc fitting and underlay for a cheaper carpet and £850 for a more expensive one. That's for 2 bedrooms (11ft x 11ft), 1 box bedroom, landing, stairs and fitted matting in our little porch to wipe your feet.

We've gone with the more expensive carpet as it felt nicer overall and was a wool mix iirc. I'm not too sure how the prices compare but everyone ive spoke to has said its a very good price.
 
RB - We have seen the carpet we require for the whole of upstairs (4 beds, hallway / stairs.

It was in Carpetright and the code is Pleasure 730 Maple.

Any ideas if I can find it cheaper online?
 
mad_allan said:
RB - We have seen the carpet we require for the whole of upstairs (4 beds, hallway / stairs.

It was in Carpetright and the code is Pleasure 730 Maple.

Any ideas if I can find it cheaper online?
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yep :)
http://www.carpetyourroom.co.uk/detail.php?ID=747

That's £12.70 / m2 instead of £19.99

That should be a really good saving over what must be about 70+ m2? talk to your carpet fitter about how much to order and what to get pre-cut (unless you want to work it out)


trick is to use the number 'maple 730' or sometimes even '730 carpet' to find it. I directed a friend of mine to carpetyourroom and he bought his carpetright carpet from them but he called them up first to check - said they were helpful and confirmed it was the exact same one (made by regency carpets) to be sure order a sample!

The Dutch carpetright website is also useful for crosschecking:
https://www.carpetright.nl/
as it has the colour names and codes in the title. search '730' on that site ;) there's a few but only one is maple.

here's the regency site too:
http://regencycarefree.co.uk/carpets/satisfaction/
http://regencycarefree.co.uk/carpets/
you will be able to find a number of CR carpets on there. You can crosscheck the colour codes and names from the dutch site:
https://www.carpetright.nl/catalogsearch/result/?q=pleasure
to the regency site (or by jotting them down in store as annoyingly CR UK don't put the numbers on their website!)

hope that helps!
 
Any advice on what carpet brands are best for pet cats around the house? I'd assume ones that are not looped. Any that are stain repellant? We are thinking mixed colours be best rather than a plain cream too, because our cats are black and white!
 
R B Customs said:
yep :)
http://www.carpetyourroom.co.uk/detail.php?ID=747

That's £12.70 / m2 instead of £19.99

That should be a really good saving over what must be about 70+ m2? talk to your carpet fitter about how much to order and what to get pre-cut (unless you want to work it out)


trick is to use the number 'maple 730' or sometimes even '730 carpet' to find it. I directed a friend of mine to carpetyourroom and he bought his carpetright carpet from them but he called them up first to check - said they were helpful and confirmed it was the exact same one (made by regency carpets) to be sure order a sample!

The Dutch carpetright website is also useful for crosschecking:
https://www.carpetright.nl/
as it has the colour names and codes in the title. search '730' on that site ;) there's a few but only one is maple.

here's the regency site too:
http://regencycarefree.co.uk/carpets/satisfaction/
http://regencycarefree.co.uk/carpets/
you will be able to find a number of CR carpets on there. You can crosscheck the colour codes and names from the dutch site:
https://www.carpetright.nl/catalogsearch/result/?q=pleasure
to the regency site (or by jotting them down in store as annoyingly CR UK don't put the numbers on their website!)

hope that helps!
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is that regency stuff any good? does it wear fast?
 
RoboCod said:
Any advice on what carpet brands are best for pet cats around the house? I'd assume ones that are not looped. Any that are stain repellant? We are thinking mixed colours be best rather than a plain cream too, because our cats are black and white!
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Cats? a small trebuchet should do it :D

loop pile would be a potential disaster; if one loop pulls it will pull a whole row out. you may be limited to twists here. I'm not sure about 'stain repellant' - but in the event of a stain polypropylene is your friend! it's bleach cleanable, which means you can use neat bleach on it if you have to. Our dog was recently not well andwe have a medium-grey deep twist carpet. there's no evidence that anything was ever there. most carpets that say 'stain resistant' or 'stain free' are polyprop' carpets, but it's worth checking that they are, and that they are bleach cleanable, should you ever have to.



majnu said:
is that regency stuff any good? does it wear fast?
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I'm not sure; all carpets will flatten over time if you don't look after them but only really cheap carpets should 'wear' I have this:
http://www.allfloorsexpress.co.uk/c...ate-100-polypropylene-grey-twist-carpet-p3340
which is a cheap price/m2 but it's very good, I'd have it again no problem.
 
kinobestew123 said:
What would people say are the carpet brands to go for and which are the ones to avoid?

It's very hard to weigh up what a good quality carpet is without using the price as a guide.
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providing you're looking at prices on the same site, or shop, it's not a bad indicator of quality - but you can't really compare online prices to, say, carpetright prices as they're just so different.


A carpet fitter is probably the best person to ask to be fair. I'm not actually that up on carpets, I just happened to recognise a pattern and saw I could save loads of money!


my fitter has comented on how nice my 2 recent kinsmead carpets were to fit; one retails for about £32/m2 and the other about £25 ish (obviously I paid nowhere near that, and then you do have to try not to compare the 11.99 you're paying for a very nice "£32" carpet with carpets that can be had for 11.99 in big sheds [which are tripe])
 
Anyone found carpetright is actually cheaper than other retailers online for some carpets? Took the advice from this thread and went to carpetright to look at what we liked.. came back and looked them up online. 1 was cheaper online, 1 wasn't available anywhere online (discontinued?) and the other was cheaper in carpetright (they had it reduced from £25/m to £12.49/m). With all the crap people say about CR i'd rather get it somewhere else but not if it's more expensive!

I'll still be getting underlay elsewhere and have and independent fitter.. so at least i'm not selling out entirely :p
 
Just play them off against each other. There is a Storey Carpets and a Franks next door to each other here. Get quote from one then go next door and they beat it and chuck in free extras, vice versa.
 
Need to get my hallways and stairs recarpeted. I have measured everything but am struggling to work out the best way to jigsaw them together to get the total m2 I need to get.

Anyone able to help?

Small Numbers are CM, big numbers are inches.

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The 3 carpet places I went to today all seemed to suggest from the above that it would be 20m2

Edit - Found this I quite like - https://www.carpetright.co.uk/monaco-supreme-saxony-plain-carpet. Carpet right quoted £653 fitted with underlay (grippers not needed as current ones are being reused). Worked out that carpet is £375 of that. Underlay was 9mm. £275 for delivery, fitting and underlay seems quite high though.

Bit of googling suggests the carpet is Associated Weavers Temptation. Although the colour 90 is Silver Glaze in that range from what I have found.
 
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