Sorry to be so tedious...

[heteronormative]

...but does anyone here know anything about getting a flat carpetted? I'm looking around for quotes and once again am left wondering how much is a reasonable amount to expect to pay, who to use and other horribly non-Pantera things.

Anyone had carpets fitted lately and want to tell me their thrilling tales?

Comments

[drdoug]

Oh, my. You are becoming Suburban!

From memory, the cost of getting it fitted is pretty small compared to the cost of the carpet itself, even if you go for bargain-basement cheapo carpet. And pricing is deliberately confusing and baffling, with endless overlapping sales things which make getting a simple answer to "how much is this" very hard. They'll try to upsell you on everything; IME you can safely resist that apart from the bit about having decent underlay. A cheap carpet with moderate underlay is way better value than a moderate carpet with cheap underlay.

[peskyendeavour]

Good quality fitted carpets are something like £70 per meter squared.

There is a huge range of choice and price, it depends what quality you want, if you go for the £20 psqm mark be prepared that the fluff comes off flying etc. There are ones that are that price for heavy contract carpet tiles but they are for commercial use normally - the typical office flooring where they expect a huge area to tile. For at home it is I'm afraid a little pricier if you want something half decent.

Having said that, given the current market you might hit lucky.

[englishdude]

Got heavy duty carpet installed recently, ready for renting out house. Carpet comes with a 7 year wear warranty. Cost me £440 all in for dining room, living room, hallway and a small bedroom, this is considered fairly cheap.