fitting our own carpets?

xyz123

Did you actually get any quotes?

shops charge around £3/sqm to fit. So unless your rooms are HUGE, its not that much money for the hassle to be honest. typical bedroom might be around 20 sqm. so thats only £60 per room...

If you want to save money, get your underlay online. u will get for around £2/£3 per sqm for big roll vs around £8 in shops. Keep in mind that when we did this and asked local shop for quote for fitting, they slapped £2 per sqm extra for fitting someone else's underlay. Nothing but greed as they make so much money from underlay. We had ours fitted from carpet right and they didnt charge anything...

Norman_Castle

Sakirjaman wrote: »

if you can effort than try this. we provide professional carpet cleaning services to all kinds of customers.

"if you can effort than try this." What?
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Sakirjaman

missesther wrote: »

My dad and I fitted a carpet on our own in a bedroom. Looked just as good as the professional fitted one in the hallway and didn't cost us a penny My dad's mantra is always "measure twice, cut once" and we were fine. It was fiddly too as he'd installed fitted wardrobes and desk and we had to cut all around that. Lasted years

i appreciate your effort :beer:. but you should believe that a professional could do far better than an amateur does. our company provides some best services that you could imagine. anyway, thank you.

cyclonebri1

phill99 wrote: »

Just don't do it. The cost of a pro for both rooms I probably £50 to £60. It'll take them about 20 min. Room and your cheap carpet will look good.

It's one if the hardest things to DIY. And if you damage th carpet or o. 'Cut short' you are scuppered.

Totally agree, not worth the effort or the risk.

But, if he insists, you can buy a kicker for tensioning carpet from ebay for about £25, tighta*s here made one from 4 x 2 timber with protruding nails:rotfl:

But, if you come home 1 evening to hubby and only 1 toddler, don't try to flatten the bump in the carpet.:D:D

drummer_666

xyz123 wrote: »

If you want to save money, get your underlay online. u will get for around £2/£3 per sqm for big roll vs around £8 in shops. Keep in mind that when we did this and asked local shop for quote for fitting, they slapped £2 per sqm extra for fitting someone else's underlay.

Fit the underlay yourself then? this would be a breeze surely

skivenov

cyclonebri1 wrote: »

But, if you come home 1 evening to hubby and only 1 toddler, don't try to flatten the bump in the carpet.:D:D

:rotfl:The old ones are the best!

xyz123

drummer_666 wrote: »

Fit the underlay yourself then? this would be a breeze surely

We didnt fit ourselves, as carpet right didnt charge extra for fitting our underlay and you dont get any discount for fitting underlay yourself. so would have been stupid to do so in our case!

cyclonebri1

skivenov wrote: »

:rotfl:The old ones are the best!

Couldn't help it, the image of the op trying to control his 2 rugrats whilst laying a carpet to professional standards just got to me, :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl: