Carpet Removal

gab3x

Hi. Buying new house which has carpets in all rooms other than dining, kitchen and bathroom. I hate carpets. We want to remove carpets in living room (13m2), stairs, bedrooms (12m2 + 9m2) and hallway (3m2) and have exposed floorboards instead. If this means changing skirting than we will do that too.

In your opinion what is a fair price for this type of work? Maybe per sqm..

Hasbeen

Why do you need a price to remove carpets?
Lift them up.
Lift underlay up.
Lift carpet grippers up
Dispose.

BillTrac

What Has been said. It's just labour.

KathysBoy

I,ve just been quoted £2 per sq m by my local carpet shop, although I am purchasing new carpets. That includes disposal. Carpet right quote £3.49 on their website

[Deleted User]

 I ripped it up myself. Contacted a friend of a friend via Facebook and he came and took it the tip for £20 

Silvertabby

That's a lot of carpet (and underlay) to haul down to the local tip.  Would hiring a skip be an option?

TELLIT01

There's no reason skirtings would have to be changed just because you want to have bare floorboards.  The skirting will be flush with the boarding.  Are you simply asking how much to get the carpets removed or how much it will cost to sand, stain and seal the floors as well?  If you can't take the carpets up and dispose of them yourself I'm guessing you won't do the other work either.

Hasbeen

TELLIT01 said:

There's no reason skirtings would have to be changed just because you want to have bare floorboards.  The skirting will be flush with the boarding.  Are you simply asking how much to get the carpets removed or how much it will cost to sand, stain and seal the floors as well?  If you can't take the carpets up and dispose of them yourself I'm guessing you won't do the other work either.

Ah. Perhaps the OP was asking in a circuitous way? what would be an estimate for sanding, staining and sealing 37m2 of floorboards.

Op was only asking to get a home report yesterday and already at the lift carpets stage. That's fast.  

greyteam1959

I would have a careful look at your existing floorboards before going down this route.
Could be lovely pine floorboards that have been chopped to bits for years.
Or they could be chipboard.....which will look terrible sanded and varnished 

FreeBear

greyteam1959 said: Could be lovely pine floorboards that have been chopped to bits for years.

Could also be T&G boards that have been butchered during lifting and/or riddled with woodworm. Bit of a crap shoot until the carpet is lifted. There will be a nice line of nail holes around the perimeter of the room where gripper rods have been put down. Depending on the stain, they could make for an interesting "feature".

Slinky

Depending on when the house was built, downstairs could have boards, concrete, some sort of tiles (watch out for asbestos) or as we have, parquet flooring, under the carpets.

Our lounge carpet turned out to have been down for so many years the underlay had disintigrated and was powder in some high traffic areas, and required scraping off in others.  What we thought would be a 15 minute job to get out took 2 of us about 4 hours each.