New carpets - local shop or national chain?

spannerzone

You need to get quotes on the same carpets assuming you can find the same as already mentioned, the sheds use their own names on many products, making proper comparisons near impossible.

I'd always use a small carpet shop but my mate owns one so i get a good deal but when I've worked for him I got to see quotes from carpetright and never saw any evidence that they were cheaper other than with extra cheap crap carpets. Often they charged a bit more to move furniture, gripperods etc.

I've yet to be convinced that the buying power of a large carpet retailer is always passed onto the customer....sure beans cost more at a corner shop, carpets seem to be a different matter entirely.

rustyboy21

Independent Carpet store better IMO.


They seem to give a better service and more styles than the sheds/chains. Also fitters are used to working for them, so know how they work.


Martin, you are putting a lot on yourself at the moment, what with Carpet and a new Cat ! ( other thread ) lol. Just make sure he doesn't get under it, whilst they are fitting it !

martin2345uk

Thanks all for the input! Lots to consider :-)

Yeah Rusty maybe I am overstretching myself - the carpet will definitely wait until Derek has settled in...!

adandem

cattie wrote: »

But as every experienced flooring/carpet tradesperson knows, when large manufacturers make carpets they are given a Range Name, such as Cormar's New Oakland. There is a website that flooring trades people frequent where they can often tell you the manufacture's range name for the carpet once they know the who the manufacturer is & the range name that Carpetright have assigned to that p

Which website is it please? I am looking for Cormar New Oakland or Home Counties.

Amontylado

cattie wrote: »

There is a website that flooring trades people frequent where they can often tell you the manufacture's range name for the carpet once they know the who the manufacturer is & the range name that Carpetright have assigned to that particular carpet.

Hi Cattie - do you actually know the name of that website you mentioned or have you only heard tell of it? Are there any flooring trades people reading this forum who could let us know the name of the site please? It would be very useful. Many thanks.

Paully232000

I have bought all of my carpets from carpetright after looking around and havent got any complaints to make against there service before, during and after purchase.
Decent price for carpet we wanted, fitters came when they said they would within 2 weeks of going into the shop and purchasing carpets. Have used them on three occasions over the last 6 months and no concerns with using them again in a few weeks time when i have painted my last bedroom.

Melaniep101

We've used Carpetright for the whole of our house (rooms all done at different times) and gotta say, they've been pretty good. Got decent quality carpets there for a relatively small budget. Shop staff are usually helpful, and the carpet fitters have always done a good job. One time they managed to stretch a carpet that I'd not taken the doorway into account with my measurements, how they got that carpet to fit I'll never know!

katejo

I have used both Carpetright and a local firm without any problem. There is just 1 option which I will never do again. A decorator recommended to me a freelance carpet fitter. He came to my house with samples and I chose one. When it arrived, the colour was nothing like the sample chosen. It looked like an industrial office carpet. To be fair to him, he did accept my point and went back to the warehouse to show them the problem. They provided more up to date samples and I chose a different one. Things turned out ok in the end but I made a mental note not to do it that way again.

uk_messer

cattie wrote: »

And you won't find a carpet fitter working for John Lewis also working for Carpetright. Carpetright uses self employed fitters, whereas JL don't as they have their own.
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Is this recently? When I've used JL in the past all the fitters were from a separate company contracted out.

rustyboy21

uk_messer wrote: »

Is this recently? When I've used JL in the past all the fitters were from a separate company contracted out.

Agree. John Lewis AFAIK sub contract out on in installations, all departments.


I know a fitter who works for JL, fitting Cookers, as well as a local Euronics centre.


He got screamed at by a Hyacinth Bouquet type woman, when he tried to deliver AND installed a cooker to her, in his beaten up old transit van ! She refused it as it wasn't delivered in a JL liveried Van ! Said she was the laughing stock of her Neighbours. lol.


As far as I know, she was told like it or lump it, that's how it is being delivered !