Fitted/sunken front door mat

nikki2801

I have been in my first house for 6 months now. We chose a lovely cream carpet for the hall stairs and landing. I know I know, every warned it wasn't practical, but it is our first house and we have no pets or kids (yet!) so when else will we get the chance to have such lovely light stain free carpets!! Anyway we have be using an offcut as a front door mat but it gets dirty very quickly & gets caught on the door and is generally very annoying! I am looking to get a sunken/fitted door mat (you know the ones that have a metal frame) but they seem to be very difficult to find (have searched every possiblity I can think of on google.) Has anyone had one installed or suggest where I can get one? Thanks

LisaLou1982

Nope, ive been looking for the same thing!!! So will be keeping an eye on this with interest x

sparkleworld

I think its a piece of coir matting- available from Wickes (Saw it by the laminates) and the strippings are available too- ring a local carpet fitter to cut a piece out of your carpet and fit the coir matting and strippings. He will be able to give you that professional finish and probably an estimate of the cost before you go ahead.

HTH

Sparkle

http://www.tradepriced.co.uk/coir_matting.html

http://www.tradepriced.co.uk/carpet_metals.html 5th one down

phill99

You can't buy a 'kit' for a sunken door mat. They are effectively bespoke.

You need to go to a decent carpet shop and explain what you need. A fitter will then come out, cut the cream carpet away, install a frame and put in a piece of coir matting (that's sold off the roll).

Each house is different and the sizes people require will differ, hence no standard kits. Its not a complex job for a carpet fitter.

987654

sparkleworld wrote: »

I think its a piece of coir matting- available from Wickes (Saw it by the laminates) and the strippings are available too- ring a local carpet fitter to cut a piece out of your carpet and fit the coir matting and strippings. He will be able to give you that professional finish and probably an estimate of the cost before you go ahead.

HTH

Sparkle

We had our carpet/ mat fitted in this way. As you walk in the door it looks like a large mat but at the same level as the carpet. It then 'joins' the carpet on one side with the strip.

Reading back, my description makes it sound awful! But several friends have had similar done since so it can't be so bad.

jackieb

The only mats i've seen like this are in sunken wells in the floor.

nikki2801

987654 wrote: »

We had our carpet/ mat fitted in this way. As you walk in the door it looks like a large mat but at the same level as the carpet. It then 'joins' the carpet on one side with the strip.

Reading back, my description makes it sound awful! But several friends have had similar done since so it can't be so bad.

Where did you get fitted from?

wallbash

and put in a piece of coir matting

My matting bought at CarpetRight is much thicker that the carpet plus underlay ,
therefore its sits in a recess in the floor . So if you go with the idea of getting the carpet fitter to install flush with existing carpet , the mat must be thin .

987654

It was done by the carpet fitter, when the carpet was ordered.

iamcornholio

You'll need to break up the screed to fit a proper mat well, and its not a carpet fitters job, more like a general builders

If you google " mat well ", you will find the cheap chrome or gold ones which fit on top of the floor if that is what you want, but a proper one is sunken and more involved

SailorSam

Wouldn't there be a 'damp proof membrane' in the floor, and if you tried to cut a sort of well for the mat, wouldn't you damage the membrane ??????