David Wilson flooring experiences please.

brokeinbristol

Hi,

I'm in the process of buying a David Wilson home and have been quoted £10k for flooring alone. This is standard amtico flooring downstairs and carpet everywhere else. The house is approximately 2000 square meters in size. This seems excessive to me. Do you think I should negotiate hard on this? Or should I wait and get an external fitter to fit it all before I move in, for less cost? I have negotiated £5k off the asking price, so now have £455k instead of £460k and have stamp duty paid. Do you think they'll budge on extras, as I've been told that they never negotiate on flooring, which I know to be a lie!

GDB2222

200 sq metres?

Doozergirl

No one knows what you're putting down in what quantities.

Developers are well known for charging well over the going rate for extras, but many people are paying for the convenience of having it ready to move into. I'm sure DW know exactly what they're doing!

If you can have an external fitter come in, you will have a wider range of product and almost certainly get a better price.

kilby_007

DW will buy a limited range of flooring in huge quantities at vastly discounted prices, and they'll make more profit than your average carpet fitter out of your custom. It'll be 2000 Sq. Ft (not metres - massive difference!) We priced up doing 2/3 of our downstairs in hardwood floor and it was about £6K (600 Sq. Ft. ish) and £1800 for carpet for the rest of the house (900 Sq. Ft.) If you were to use an engineered wood laminate board it would cost considerably less. My dad did half of his downstairs (fitted it himself) for less than £1500 and it's good quality engineered wood flooring. It just depends what you want, who's fitting it etc.

dgtazzman

Seems excessive to me, 1400 sqft house, 50% good quality carpet and 50% upper end of mid-range laminate (cuurently retailing at around 22 GBP/m2) cost me under 4k with fitting and everything else. (think it was around the 3.5k mark). That was from a small local company, did a brilliant job and didn't find anybody else that came close with their quote amongst the big guys.

n90bar

We're in a 2000sq ft dwh that we had them carpet and amtico. All in 5.5k late 2016. We looked around elsewhere and there's came up slightly towards the Lower end. I found the amtico to be well priced £125 per shower room I think, independent couldn't do any thing close!

brokeinbristol

Firstly yes feet not metres! Thank you for your repliies, I was a little shocked by the cost of the quote and for convenience would like DWH to do it but n90bar your quote compared to mine seems like a massive difference in price for what appears to be a similar sized house. For info it's an 'Emerson' style 5 bed 2.5 storey house. I'll enquire whether there's room for negotiation and if I wanted to get a subcontractor in when I could do this.

Doozergirl

You can only get a contractor in after completion. That's a given.

swishy87

We've just bought a David Wilson and we did the flooring ourselves. They wanted £4.5k for the carpet and we got exactly the same carpet from a local shop, fitted before we moved in, for £2.5k. They wanted around £3k for the downstairs tiling and we did it ourselves for £1000. Amtico we found to be quite competitive but wanted to decide on bathrooms once in.

They were unwilling to give us flooring for nothing and after looking at houses with their free flooring I was happy we didn't. I would compare locally first as there will be a mark up.

swishy87

Just to add it definitely isn't a given that you can only get a contractor in after completion, you can beforehand for the carpet and vinyl, just not tiling and amtico.