Carpet fitting price - help please?

sillywilly

Hi I am looking for information regarding carpet fitting prices and what is included for a relative.

He was initially quoted £2.95 a m2 if he was buying the £12m2 carpet off the guy. This included gripper rods. He has his own underlay from tradepriced.

However he saw a cheaper carpet in Carpetright that was £8.60 a m2. They said they use fitters who charge £2.50m2 and tried to sell him gripper at exorbitant prices when that too can be got off tradepreiced pretty cheap.

I had a 25m2 simple rectangular room fitted with carpet and underlay that I supplied. The fitter supplied the gripper and did a great job and it cost me £60.

Anyone know what the going rate is for fitting and is / should gripperrods be included in the price?

Thanks in advance for any responses.

quantic

Prices vary vastly, I just had a Living Room, 2 Hall ways, 2 staircases, 4 bedrooms and it cost me £200 for fitting. I think the total area was 115m2. The usual seems to be anywhere between £2-3 per m2 and varies on the size of the job.

sillywilly

quantic wrote: »

Prices vary vastly, I just had a Living Room, 2 Hall ways, 2 staircases, 4 bedrooms and it cost me £200 for fitting. I think the total area was 115m2. The usual seems to be anywhere between £2-3 per m2 and varies on the size of the job.

Thanks for your reply - did that include the fitter supplying gripper?

quantic

No that price was just for fitting, we already had the gripper down.

phill99

I pay an average of about £40 for a standard saize room, up to £80 for stairs and around the same for a large through lounge diner. Gripper rods and door bars not included

ormus

i paid my mate 50 quid to do my hall and stairs. grippers were already down.
he was telling me that grippers in bulk, cost peanuts. he makes a small fortune out of grippers.

sillywilly

ormus wrote: »

i paid my mate 50 quid to do my hall and stairs. grippers were already down.
he was telling me that grippers in bulk, cost peanuts. he makes a small fortune out of grippers.

Yes charging additional for gripper seems a big swindle, bit like a chippie saying - the labour will cost you this but it's an extra tenner for the screws!

pusscat

I have fitters in at the moment (literally!) and they are charging me

for approx 150m2 in 2 different pattern carpets (good quality 50oz tufted wool 80/20 carpets)

Underlay (Cummulus cloud 9 11mm) £2.66 m2
Door plates £2 per door (not contract ones tho)
Fitting £375 including all grippers, delivery and disposal of all rubbish including the old carpets (I am estimating that the fitting on it's own is approx £2m2)

This includes moving all furniture and replacing and fitting 40 individual stairs (including winders) in a striped carpet that needs lining up - so it is a fairly time consuming job.

This is "up north" and it is not a "cash price" it is fully invoiced and I have 2 guys on site all day.

I also had one room replaced in another house - cheapish carpet, like for like replacement (so grippers and underlay already in place) , 5m x 4m room with only 1 cut out. Carpet cost £100, fitting and delivery was £25 and took less than an hour.

Hope that helps a bit.

Puss

sillywilly

pusscat wrote: »

I have fitters in at the moment (literally!) and they are charging me

for approx 150m2 in 2 different pattern carpets (good quality 50oz tufted wool 80/20 carpets)

Underlay (Cummulus cloud 9 11mm) £2.66 m2
Door plates £2 per door (not contract ones tho)
Fitting £375 including all grippers, delivery and disposal of all rubbish including the old carpets (I am estimating that the fitting on it's own is approx £2m2)

This includes moving all furniture and replacing and fitting 40 individual stairs (including winders) in a striped carpet that needs lining up - so it is a fairly time consuming job.

This is "up north" and it is not a "cash price" it is fully invoiced and I have 2 guys on site all day.

I also had one room replaced in another house - cheapish carpet, like for like replacement (so grippers and underlay already in place) , 5m x 4m room with only 1 cut out. Carpet cost £100, fitting and delivery was £25 and took less than an hour.

Hope that helps a bit.

Puss

Puss - thank you so much for the detailed analysis! Apologies for not responding quicker - comp has been !!!!!!ed! The person whose behalf I posed the question didn't listen - as usual. Has already bought the tradpriced 11mm underlay. Could have got an equivalent carpet from Carpetright for £8.59 m2 plus arranging fitting and gripper - whatever that may be?

Decided to go with the local carpet firm - based on an industrial estate - for ease and "speed"!!! He apparently has to order the carpet in and the soonest he can do it is the 16th November! What speed!!! Wow!

All for the inclusive price of £16m2 - remember underlay is supplied.

What a "BARGAIN"!! - Some people won't be told will they? Sorry for wasting peoples time - I feel like going to a field in the country and screaming!!! Aaaaargh!!!!