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New Build Flooring/Tiling Costs

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Hi,

Have browsed these forums for a few weeks now and found lots of excellent advice!

We are in the process of buying our first home together, a new build in South Oxfordshire. We managed to knock a lot of money off the asking price (nearly £50k!). However, this meant we lost some of the incentives we had before such as flooring included etc.

My question is, can anyone give me a guide on possible flooring costs? It is a 3 bed end of terrace, stating as 873 square ft on the brochure. We have the tiling included in the kitchen/diner which removes around 150 square ft so we are left with just over 700 square ft for rest of the house. Also, we want to tile the bathroom and en suite, fully wall tiled if possible. Does anyone have a rough guide on tiling labour costs and is it cheaper to buy our own tiles/grout etc? The developer stated they'd charge around £3500 for carpets throughout which sounds far too high?!

Any advice or past experience would be greatly appreciated :j

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  • You can buy carpet at £1a m2 or carpet at £190 a m2

    You have 65m2 to carpet.
    Carpet fitters are 50 a penny these days, you wont have any trouble finding one to fit a £5M2 they will have your arm off, shops pay them £2.50 if they are lucky.
    Work your budget out / 65m2 + £400 to guarantee a good fitter.

    A good faux wool twist is around £8 m2 trade, Wool berber £12-18.
    Wool twist 80/20 at £25m2 or 50/50 at £18-20.

    At £3500 you could have crossly sultana axminster in the whole house twice and still have £500 left over.
    You were right, they are having you over big time.
    Get the phone book and get some quotes, carpet fitters are short of work the first 3 months of any year, they will be all over this job.
    I do Contracts, all day every day.
  • Thanks for the info Marktheshark, as I suspected, the £3500 figure was far too high!

    Do you have any idea on tiling out of interest :)?
  • kinger101
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    I heard a figure of about £25 per square meter for the labour costs, but it will vary depending on the size of the tile. The tiles themselves can be between £5 and £100 per square metre.
    "Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance" - Confucius
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    edited 16 February 2016 at 12:30AM
    lol I know this isn't relevant to the OP but I have bought two remnants and am carpeting my stairs/hallways myself. Cost = £80 including reasonable quality underlay and reasonable quality carpet that I got at less than half price because it was a couple of short lengths (but enough). Only problem is I went mad and bought beige.., knowing I am going to regret that choice (but do have a good shampooer lol). Just sick of brown hallways!

    I tend to look for sales when buying tiles. Bought some wonderful tiles for £8m2 that should have been £30m2.., but that was my best buy yet lol. Its a way of upgrading from what you can really afford but you do have to be careful of items they are selling off at a discount because there's some kind of defect.

    I can't advise as to trades.., I tend to do these things myself. Saves a fortune and it makes it more 'mine'. More trouble though of course..,but I look proudly at it every time I look at these areas and know its been done as well as it could be (some tradesmen aren't quite as they seem).
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