Average Cost To Carpet 3 Bedroom House
How cheap can I carpet a 3 bed house?
How cheap can I carpet a 3 bed house?
Monday 18th July 2011
Our carpet is quite old, and a bit smelly.
It was here when we moved in, but I am reluctant to change it as there are still some other renovation work we intend to do over the next few years, and I think it would be a waste of money to change the carpet now before some of the other big stuff is done.
However it might be a while before we are able to get round to doing all we want to, and I'm not sure how long Mrs KMC will put up with the old one.
Can I carpet cheaply knowing I don't expect it to last a long time? Up to 3/4 years I guess.
I will need it fitted too.
I'm talking whole house (biggish 3 bed detached, 2 reception rooms) except Kitchen and Bathroom.
I've got no idea how much carpet and fitting costs, my last two houses were both new builds, with new flooring throughout.
How cheap can I get away with?
Monday 18th July 2011
What about sanding the floor and leaving it bare until you've done the other work then putting down decent carpet?
Monday 18th July 2011
shirt
20,438 posts
173 months
Monday 18th July 2011
when i was renovating, i left the carpet until last. i had a budget of £1k as that's all i had left basically. luckily some rooms had new wood or tiled floors so i was left with 95sqm to carpet.
i bought decent foam underlay/gripstrips/door bars from here:
http://www.tradepriced.co.uk/
and fitted it myself. luckily they are fairly local so did collected it in two trips on my way home from work. total cost for that lot about £250. i then went to about 8 different local carpet places and found that because i wanted it;
a] all the same colour
b] available in a 5m roll;
i was looking at the cheapest carpet they sold as taking the fitting cost off my £1000 meant i only had about £6-odd per m2. ended up having one local guy take pity on me and agreeing to sell me some £9/m2 retail stuff at the meterage cost of a full roll. ended up paying about £950 + the underlay etc. [ETA - total cost 1100ish]
so yeah, 1500 cheapest if you just want to have it all done for you.
Edited by shirt on Monday 18th July 12:20
Monday 18th July 2011
Monday 18th July 2011
Monday 18th July 2011
Less than £1500 easy and that wouldn't be their cheapest of cheap office like carpet, if you can use the underlay from the old carpet do so, especially upstairs where carpets dont get used much and the old runners these all cost they will try and sell you them but you don't always need them. Also haggle like hell and go to several its a competitive market so bargins can be had.
Monday 18th July 2011
gripper is only about £26 for 500ft so dont worry about that best bet spend more on underlay if your using a cheap carpet it makes teh world of difference or if you really want cheap no underlay and no gripper and just tack it down 
Monday 18th July 2011
Thanks guys.
Downstairs is concrete floors, so I cant just have floor boards.
I'm in Biggin Hill, Kent.
Monday 18th July 2011
With the others in that if you buy cheap as chips underlay and carpet you can get it done for iro £1500 easy.
We had the upstairs of our large 3 bed done for about that but the cost of the materials was twice the price of the basic stuff.
Monday 18th July 2011
Also echo the comments about underlay.
You don't need top draw stuff in the kids/spare bedroom (destroyed anyway or hardly used) but you do want good stuff in IMO hall, stairs, landing and main room.
Don't forget 2 things:-
You have the ideal opportunity to screw down all those lose floorboards when the old one is taken up. a day with a couple of cordless drills and 500 odd screws mean that even 3 years later not a single squeek other than one stair we never manged to stop in the first place.
You can reuse the underlay when you fit the final stuff so it might be a question of spending wisely now.
Monday 18th July 2011
Rude-boy said:
You can reuse the underlay when you fit the final stuff so it might be a question of spending wisely now.
But good underlay can cost as much as carpet, and they say underlay is what makes much of the difference (as opposed to the cheap stuff that either flattens into a sticky mess or disintegrates into black dust)
shirt
20,438 posts
173 months
Monday 18th July 2011
Look at the link I posted, you can buy top drawer underlay for less than the cheapest stuff from a carpet shop.
Monday 18th July 2011
shirt said:
you can buy top drawer underlay
But it's for under the carpet 
shirt
20,438 posts
173 months
Monday 18th July 2011
Monday 18th July 2011
When we were doing up our rental house we managed to carpet 3 beds, stairs and lounge for £600 all in.
Had a very limited choice of colours - master bedroom deep pile in light vream (nightmare!) and everywhere else in oatmeal.
Monday 18th July 2011
There's a carpet place down the street from my place of work in Darlington, too far I know but you get the picture, "we carpet a whole house for £595"
Using the old underlay is not a good idea as it'll probably smell like the old carpet.
When you come to carpet the place properly use the best underlay you can get, it'll make rubbish carpets feel good quality.
Uriel
3,244 posts
223 months
Tuesday 19th July 2011
Tuesday 19th July 2011
Hmm, could he expand to do Rich Southerners for £695?
Friday 31st August 2012
ill sell you a full roll of light brown twist for £450-00 if you can arrange delivery 
100 ft x 13 ft
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