Stair carpet quote, how much is acceptable?

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Had a quote done for a stair carpet and the landing.
It's a good quality carpet (wool) because we will be living here for a long time.

The quote was £760 all in, underlay, carpet and fitting. The staircase is straight, no fancy corners.

It's seems very high to me.

We got the quote from an independent carpet business. I would prefer to support a local business rather than a chain store, but it seems steep to me.

We got a high quality carpet for our living room which is a good sized room and up through stairs and landing and that was £800. By a local independent firm.

Sounds reasonable to me.

Ours was a similar price. It was also very good quality carpet.

That must be one expensive carpet haha

I had stairs, landing and 3 bedrooms done for £550, incl underlay and fitting. I got the cheaper hard wearing carpet though as my children are still young and very messy. I wanted one that was affordable to replace if needs be

Sounds about right

It depends on the carpet cost per square metre. Find that out and compare to similair carpets.

Then add in fitting, underlay etc.

Cheap carpet can be as little as 4 or 5 pounds a square metre, expensive wool carpets easily 30-40.

Sounds about right to me - although it really depends on the quality of the carpet AND underlay. But I'd get some other quotes in anyway.

sounds about right I guess. I think we paid £1200 for lounge/diner, hallway, stairs and upstairs landing (but it's a relatively small house)

We paid about £300 for the carpet (expensive but discounted carpet at Carpetright) and about £200 to the local fitter. South London area.

The carpet is £33 psm

fwiw, I don't think pure wool is as useful as a blend in high traffic areas (esp when kids are small & pound up & down a lot)

100% wool Axminster on our stairs started wearing through bang on the 15-year guarantee - I believe 80-20 is more hardwearing. (Ours was £1000 for hall, stairs & landing 18 years ago - that was an Allied Carpets rip off )

Have recently had a quote from a local supplier for a mid-range loop pile carpet just for stairs & landing (hall is quite small) & that's going to be about £600 fitted, with the most expensive underlay - which seems extremely reasonable compared with the old one