Carpeting costs?

[Scam]

And here's another thing we know nothing about or what is reasonable

Our loft conversion is almost completed and we've had a local company round to quote for carpeting the loft room, loft landing and staircase. We will do the two first floor bedrooms, landing and lower staircase at a later date once our first floor bathroom has been done. We don't want the mess all over new carpets... So just the loft area for now.

Anyhoo, they've quoted £1035 including underlays, grippers, install. It's a reference quote, we haven't chosen a carpet and don't know what price p/sqm he's looking at but it's one of the cheaper polypropylene loop pile ones we'd mentioned. As we want the same throughout. I think it's maybe £15-20p/sqm?

The loft room is roughly 16m2 by my calculations, plus tiny landing (probably not even 1m2) and staircase. Sounds a bit steep to me especially as it's the cheaper carpet he's using as a reference point. Staircase will be plain, no runners etc on the upper one.

Cheers.

 

[Bickaxe]

I would suggest sourcing your own underlay and getting something decent like cloud 9 (11?..i can't remember).
You could put the grippers and underlay in yourself.

Did they mention the type? If not, its likely the cheap crap they put in newbulds.
Labour is generally charged on the area to cover.

 

[koolpc]

Dont let them walk all over you!

 

[Slackworth]

I would suggest sourcing your own underlay and getting something decent like cloud 9 (11?..i can't remember).
You could put the grippers and underlay in yourself.

Did they mention the type? If not, its likely the cheap crap they put in newbulds.
Labour is generally charged on the area to cover.

This.

Buy your own grippers and underlay. They are huge margin products in the "usual" shops and very easy to fit yourself. When we had the extension built, we saved several hundred pounds by doing this and just had the local shop come and fit the carpet. I managed to put the grippers and underlay down in a few hours one evening so it's not overly time consuming.

Just mind any wires or pipework when you bang the gripper rod nails in to the floor and have plenty of new stanley blades at the ready

 

[Semple]

At £20psqm the bedroom works out a little over £300. The landing and stairs depending on whether it is a straight up, or if the landing double backs on itself. The less straightforward the layout the more carpet is usually needed and there is also wastage. So maybe another £100 there.

Fitting for stairs always attracts extra cost because of the additional work. But at that quote you'd be looking around £700 for labour including grippers and underlay. Grippers are pretty cheap, and tbh you'd get a better deal on the underlay by buying it yourself. They'll make a bit of profit by supplying underlay and grippers as they will get them at trade cost and in bulk but still charge you a premium.

If you'd have a bash at laying the grippers and underlay then I'd request for a quote just for carpet + fitting.

 

[Peerzy]

eBay has 20sqm of Cloud 9 Cumulus 11mm for about £115 delivered, grippers would be minimal costs. Stairs take longer to fit and then carpet cost is whatever psqm.

Say £350-£500 for carpet, £150 for underlay, grippers, z bars, delivery etc... so that's £500-£650 depending on your carpet costs. I'd guess about £200 for fitting assuming the room and landing is straight and not too many awkward cuts.

 

[Scam]

Appreciate the input guys, don't you think if I take out their profit margin they might not be so interested?

I'll look into the underlay and grippers myself but we currently don't have much time to dedicate to all that and we need to get moved into the room sharpish so that they can continue with work downstairs. I was really just gauging opinion if it's a fair-ish price!

At £20psqm the bedroom works out a little over £300. The landing and stairs depending on whether it is a straight up, or if the landing double backs on itself. The less straightforward the layout the more carpet is usually needed and there is also wastage. So maybe another £100 there.

This is the layout, the staircase has two turns. (taken from my other thread, ignore the red)

 

[theone8181]

Fwiw our living room which is about 25 sqm was about 600 which was carpet/underlay and fitting. Think the carpet was 15/sqm or so. We had the stairs/landing done and I think fitting was about 75 quid, but it took most of the morning. I hadn't realised how easy a square room is compared to stairs (and our landing is shaped like a Π, so took a while too.

 

[~Divine~Wind~]

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for underlay and gripper mate, as above cloud 9 is my goto.

local carpet place wanted 1.50 per gripper and the best part of a tenner psqm for cloud 9!!!

i dont mind paying them to install it that's a given cost for labour don't mind of its a little higher as I know their work is decent. but for them to try and profit like that from fixings is disgusting.

 

[theone8181]

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for underlay and gripper mate, as above cloud 9 is my goto.

local carpet place wanted 1.50 per gripper and the best part of a tenner psqm for cloud 9!!!

i dont mind paying them to install it that's a given cost for labour don't mind of its a little higher as I know their work is decent. but for them to try and profit like that from fixings is disgusting.

Think I got 16 for a tenner online. EBays pretty good for that sort of stuff.

 

[Slackworth]

Appreciate the input guys, don't you think if I take out their profit margin they might not be so interested?

I'll look into the underlay and grippers myself but we currently don't have much time to dedicate to all that and we need to get moved into the room sharpish so that they can continue with work downstairs. I was really just gauging opinion if it's a fair-ish price!

They'll still be interested in selling you the carpet and fitting costs. It's more that the profit margins on the prep items are normally much higher than the carpet itself.

Although you may not have much time - I'd ask for quotes for if they fit your own underlay/grippers and a quote for just the carpet only to see what the difference really is. Like I said in my previous post, it really doesn't take a massive amount of time and something if you set your mind to it, you could probably do in no more than one evening.