How long is a piece of string? aka how much would it cost to recarpet my house?

[chicaguapa]

We let our house out and the carpets could do with being redone. It's for 3 bedrooms, 2 are fairly small, upstairs landing and stairs. Any ball park figures for a medium quality carpet for that area? Probably all the same colour. I can dig the measurements out if there's anywhere online where I could work it out. We are trying to work out if it's worth it and/or we can afford it.

Thanks.

For four bedrooms, two staircases, hall, landing and living room it was £5000 for wool/synthetic blend carpets.

Wow, 5k is nuts! We are moving on Thursday and having the carpet filters in on Friday. An online firm called love carpet. Never used them before but they have great reviews and so far customer service has been far so fingers crossed! We are going for polypropeline (sp) as it's bleach cleanable (I like red wine and we have a cat!). They are doing four large double rooms, living room, entrance hall, 3 hallways and 2 seat of stairs for just over 2k incl fitting. Free underlay, door bars and grippers etc, and they do 6 months free credit if you need it....sounds too good to be true but I will come back and let you know on Saturday, so far I would highly recommend.

Imo, having had 3 quotes for this 5k is way off the mark, espec for a property you are letting out...

Hopefully I won't have egg on my face come Friday though!

Apologies for multiple typos....the difference I guess will be down to materials, we are avoiding wool completely as it is impractical for us

5k is bonkers, you could do that less than 1k easily.

Go to a local independent and reuse all your underlay and grippers etc to save money.

I think it depends on what you want - we bought a 3 bed semi with 40+ yr old carpets, had a 9mth old starting to crawl. But planned to extend within a couple of years (and have solid wood flooring) so went for cheap - we did 3 bedrooms, landing and stairs, 2 reception rooms. Think we got underlay free as part of the deal, carpet fitters did landing and stairs, H did the rest. It was around £1k.

No way should it cost 5k. You can do an average 3-4 bed house for no more than 1.5k (with nice carpets too).

Wool is probably not worth the money as stains etc are more difficult and they are less hard wearing.

Thanks. £1k sounds more like our budget and we don't want anything too expensive as it will make it harder for the tenants to look after. But something that cleans/hoovers up nicely.

Will look at love carpet.

I will let you know how we get on on Friday chica

Will be cheaper if the whole house is done the same colour as there will be a discount for a bulk order.
Would second the local people. Ours have been fantastic and the price given included underlay, grip strip and fitting. No hidden extras.