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  • pollyanna24
    pollyanna24 Posts: 4,390 Forumite
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    I'm paying £6.50 a metre for all the bedrooms in my house and £7.50 for the stairs and landing. Buying online.

    Using a local man to fit the carpet and he quoted £319 for everything. I am using existing underlay and grippers.
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  • emmatthews wrote: »
    Underlay can be bought cheaper online. When we carpeted our house, I bought the underlay and grippers online (the carpet fitter still fitted it) and then spent some of the extra money I'd saved on better quality carpet.

    There is no chance way that I would pay more for my underlay than the carpet.



    Which site did you use to get the underlay?
  • KRB2725
    KRB2725 Posts: 685 Forumite
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    Which site did you use to get the underlay?

    I bought cloud 9 underlay and gripper from eBay.
  • jrtfan
    jrtfan Posts: 1,135 Forumite
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    edited 13 May 2016 at 1:54PM
    Carpet Right gave me a quote in store of £400 for a 2'6" wide 12-step staircase and 2'6" square landing (carpet, underlay and grippers). Their guy then came round to measure up, said I didn't need new gripper and revised my total price to under £200 based on actual measurements taken (fitting included). My stairs are steep and the store had over estimated the floor area to be covered. The carpet was around £15/sq.yd I think, full price, and I went for the middle of the 3 underlay types available. Does this help you to gauge your own estimated price, OP?
  • sam2015_2
    sam2015_2 Posts: 196 Forumite
    jrtfan wrote: »
    Carpet Right gave me a quote in store of £400 for a 2'6" wide 12-step staircase and 2'6" square landing (carpet, underlay and grippers). Their guy then came round to measure up, said I didn't need new gripper and revised my total price to under £200 based on actual measurements taken (fitting included). My stairs are steep and the store had over estimated the floor area to be covered. The carpet was around £15/sq.yd I think, full price, and I went for the middle of the 3 underlay types available. Does this help you to gauge your own estimated price, OP?

    They didn't send anyone around to measure up. The sales man said no need to visit. The fitter came around with a big roll of wrong size carpet so couldn't fit it. He took the measurement and went back. Re-scheduled for another day. Will see how much of the carpet will be left behind.
  • jrtfan
    jrtfan Posts: 1,135 Forumite
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    sam2015 wrote: »
    They didn't send anyone around to measure up. The sales man said no need to visit. The fitter came around with a big roll of wrong size carpet so couldn't fit it. He took the measurement and went back. Re-scheduled for another day. Will see how much of the carpet will be left behind.


    I'm a bit puzzled, because how could the store give you a quotation to carpet an area unseen? Unless you took precise measurements to give to them first, of course?

    Maybe I'm not seeing the whole picture, but if I were you I would get back in touch with the store before the fitter comes back with the new carpet and just get them to confirm the price, based on the last lot of measurements which were taken.
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