Do rooms need to be completely empty for new carpet to be laid?

[PippaFawcett]

Or can heavy items be moved from one side to another as appropriate? I imagine I am being naive!

[ILoveMyMonkey]

The room needs to be empty - this was in the particulars when we ordered our carpets.

[wowfudge]

Really? I've always found that carpet fitters can work round a bed or sofa.

[Floggingmolly]

They will move large items of furniture - for an extra fee...

[AgingJuvenileBinkyHuckaback]

For a fee they will normally work around beds, wardrobes etc, but everything needs to be clear and empty if at all possible

[dementedpixie]

They worked around our 2 couches but we moved other smaller stuff out

[P1nkP0ppy]

Allied Carpets fitters will move, at no extra charge, up to 5 pieces of furniture.

[Pootles2010]

Yes ours will move furniture for a fee. Think you're better to completely move it, tbh.

[wowfudge]

We've never been charged for them to move things when fitters have worked around a bed or sofa.

[Moving15]

The carpet will be fitted better if they can work in an empty room

[didireallysaythat]

Whenever I've had carpets fitted I've been told the room must be completely empty - but the last 3 rooms were done by one guy so it wouldn't have been practical otherwise.

[AliceInUnderpants]

Why wouldn't you clear the room completely before starting? Surely that makes it easier for everyone, including you?

[Floggingmolly]

Because some furniture is extremely heavy, Alice? There's a wardrobe in one of our rooms that literally needs to be taken apart in order to move it; it's a two / three man job.

[P1nkP0ppy]

There's no way our antique and massive dresser can be moved more than a few feet....

[PippaFawcett]

Flogging has it, and it is a wardrobe I am thinking of. It is a big job to dismantle and reassemble it. Obviously we will do it if we really have to, I just wondered if there was a way to work around it.

[Jenijena]

It's actually impossible to empty some spaces. Downstairs I have a lounge/diner and a small kitchen. No where to move the sofas, piano, etc to...

[AgingJuvenileBinkyHuckaback]

We have a huge heavy desk in our bedroom, and a double bed of course. It would be an enormous job to move them, especially if we were doing the whole house at once: it would be like playing Towers of Hanoi.
Carpet fitters have always moved the big furniture to one side of the room, laid the clear side, lifted the furniture over onto the new carpet, laid the other side, then put the furniture back in its original position. Yes it's a faff, but much less than taking a kingsize bed and mattress down two flights of stairs, and they do it all the time.

[AliceInUnderpants]

But wouldn't you want to vaccum before putting stuff back?

[whois]

My fitters worked round items for a fee and I paid for old carpet uplift as well (they won't dispose).

However a word of caution on this - they rip up and lay straight down - no hoover or anything so you will get dirt line coming up through your new carpet! Luckily I was there and could wizz round with a hoover.

[Naoko]

When my landlord recarpeted the house last year I expressed some concern about this as I am disabled and while I could certainly move small furniture and loose items like books, I'm not capable of picking up wardrobes, beds, sofas etc (nor do I have anywhere to put them). The carpet guy was very sympathetic and said that as long as I made sure everything other than the large furniture was gone, they'd sort it out. There were two of them, they just lifted the stuff up, put it on the other side of the room, laid the carpet, put it back and did the other half.

[Bakermaz]

We are carpet fitters
Not removal guys
It's to much fuss for you to move them but expect fitters to do this
So if they put there backs out
For weeks
That's fine is it because the person that wanted the carpet fitted could not be bothered to move it
Would you pay this guy for 2 weeks for being off work with bad back

[Mosaic123]

Nice. Not everyone is able to move furniture.

[Bakermaz]

That's fair enough
But you won't believe the amount of young perfectly capable people that don't
And if accident happens
There soon moaning about its broke. And it's the fitter fault

[Wavey123]

I wouldn’t expect a carpet fitter to have to move anything, if I wanted a new carpet and had big furniture in a room then I would deal with that before getting them in to do their real job

[Bakermaz]

Wish all people thought that way
Cheers

[kizkiz]

I do a combo of the options.
Move anything I can, then make sure two of us are present on fitting day to do the heavy lifting for the half and half method. Don't expect the fitters to lift anything