Quote for carpet and hard flooring

gax23

Hi all,

Got a quote for carpet (stairs, landing) and hard flooring (hall, dining room) from a local company who we’ve used before. We know they’re good, but wondered what you thought of the price.

To lay and install:

Revolution Heathers 474 Silver carpet
Cloud 9 underlay, grippers
to area approximately 13 sqm

Cavalio Conceptline 3083 Nordic Ash flooring
Prime, adhesion etc
to area approximately 21 sqm

Total cost: £2170


Does this seem reasonable?

Doozergirl

Well, have you looked at prices online?

The carpet and underlay come to about £10 per metre from an online retailer, so that's £130

The LVT I've found for £18 a metre, so that's £378.

We've just been quoted £18 a metre (plus VAT, iirc) for LVT fitting, so that's £453. Might be more if you need self levelling.

So those three are just under £1,000. So £1,000 for one carpet fitting in a small room, gripper rods purchased, and maybe even self levelled?

Too much, IMO.

I'm looking at more expensive carpet and Amtico over 90 square metres each (so 180 metres) and we've compared and compared prices and got to just under £6,000 - that's an average of about £32 a metre.

Your average is £64 a metre. Ridiculous for cheap product.

gax23

Doozergirl wrote: »

Well, have you looked at prices online?

The carpet and underlay come to about £10 per metre from an online retailer, so that's £130

The LVT I've found for £18 a metre, so that's £378.

We've just been quoted £18 a metre (plus VAT, iirc) for LVT fitting, so that's £453. Might be more if you need self levelling.

So those three are just under £1,000. So £1,000 for one carpet fitting in a small room, gripper rods purchased, and maybe even self levelled?

Too much, IMO.

I'm looking at more expensive carpet and Amtico over 90 square metres each (so 180 metres) and we've compared and compared prices and got to just under £6,000 - that's an average of about £32 a metre.

Your average is £64 a metre. Ridiculous for cheap product.

I did look at prices online, but that's not particularly helpful as carpet and flooring fitters tend to charge for a little thing called labour. Most of them do this to earn money rather than just as a favour.

We did consider Amtico flooring, but we've got that in a couple of our bathrooms and we're not impressed with it. The last time we went for a more expensive carpet it started to fray and fall apart within six months, too, whereas the Revolution product we've had before and it's lasted years and is of very good quality for its price.

Doozergirl

gax23 wrote: »

I did look at prices online, but that's not particularly helpful as carpet and flooring fitters tend to charge for a little thing called labour. Most of them do this to earn money rather than just as a favour.

We did consider Amtico flooring, but we've got that in a couple of our bathrooms and we're not impressed with it. The last time we went for a more expensive carpet it started to fray and fall apart within six months, too, whereas the Revolution product we've had before and it's lasted years and is of very good quality for its price.

Did you read my post properly? I'm not sure why you're being facetious when I specifically talked about the labour costs of fitting LVT and said that there was over £1000 still in the theoretical pot just to carpet one small room. I went to effort of looking for the price of your products online and making calculations to assist you. I was absolutely allowing for labour and I gave you a comparitive cost for fitting and labour of more expensive product.

I wasn't extolling the virtues of a more expensive product either, it's none of my business what you buy, but I was illustrating that I'm in the same process currently, have been comparing prices endlessly and I've got better prices for more expensive product, including labour.

Labour is also available separately to the product and the opportunity is there for you to buy the same products elsewhere for less by comparing.

I was telling you that you're paying way over the odds. I don't need telling about 'a little thing called' labour, I spend over £250k a year on trade labour!