How much would you expect to pay for a narrow stairs & landing carpet???

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Widest point under 2 metres and 12m in length. Carpet at £14 p/m and underlay for £7 p/m with labour and taking away old carpet. We've been quoted £900 by Carpetright. Doesn't that seem quite expensive or am I wildy out of date with costings???

So 24 square metres times 21 pounds per sq m = 504 costs. 400 labour.

I think we paid similar tbh. South East.

Doesn't seem right to me, we use a small local shop who have their own self employed fitters and I usually pay around £80 for the fitting in each room. I did have stair carpet fitted last year but it was at the same time as Karndean so I can't remember the cost.

Thanks for your comments. Obviously wildly behind the times. But seriously £400 for labour for what will be a couple of hours work (or have I got that wrong too???).

I've checked my calculations with DH. You might be better off buying the carpet and finding an independent fitter. Sounds like a lot of money. It's not a skilled job. Though obv you have to get it right. Like in all jobs.

£400 for labour sounds crazy. The local shop we use charge about £40 for fitting in a standard room and maybe double that for stairs. It takes them no time at all.

What about John Lewis's???

I'm thinking that Carpetright are somehow making commission on the fitting side of things???

They haven't broken down the costing at all and have included taking the old carpet away (obviously at some cost!).

Do you think the fitting charge is a blanket charge rather than specific to the amount of carpet being laid???

I think we'd thought it would be around £500!

I think I've worked out the problem. Despite the fact that I reiterated it was only for stairs and landing (not the hall as well), the quote says 'inv hall stairs landing' so there's the issue methinks! The hall probably covers the same surface area as the landing/stairs....

That would make the quote more like £500 which would be in line with our rough estimate would it not!??

What!

We have just had stairs and landing and three bedrooms done. All with underlay except 1 bedroom, metal bits between rooms and grippers and fitting with a local company and it cost £800 for the lot. Fitiing was £159, rest was the carpets and accessories. Not cheap crap carpets either.

Sigh....if they get something so basic wrong maybe it's a red flag to using them!

My GPs have just paid £600 for hall, stairs and landing carpet and fitting and it was an expensive £25 per sqm carpet.

You're seems like a lot of money even at £500.

Although the area may be only two metres, isn't the standard carpet roll 4m wide? Therefore you are effectively paying for 12m length of a 4m wide roll. You may have lots of wastage. Our stairs and landing from an independent trader cost £570 inch fitting. Fitters took about 2hr max to remove and refit.

Carpetright were expensive when I looked. I used an independent whose price per metre included the underlay and fitting - I thought their £20/m^2 was expensive but worked out a lot cheaper all in.

I've just had a quote for between £3500 and £5000. I was not pleased.

Look for an independent local carpet business with a warehouse and no glossy showroom or glossy salesmen, and avoid carpetwrong.

Are you having it in a stair runner style? That would add to the costs as they have to bind the edges.

I've just had a new carpet on small downstairs landing, stairs and upper landing. The fitting cost £55 - independent shop.

Have they thrown in underlay?
Last time I had carpet fitted, it was a fixed price per m^2, and not very expensive at all.

Even if you don't like the carpet, I think you need to go somewhere else, and get a quote for a £14/m^2 carpet quote.

Agree with stairs generating lots of offcuts tho. The narrow stairs doesn't make a difference to the amount of carpet they need to cut off the roll.

The underlay from Carpetright is very expensive, as are their gripper rods and threshold bars. I bought my own, was much better quality and less than half the price.

We had the hall, stairs and very small landing re carpeted last year by a small independent local shop. It was about £500 including free underlay and fitting.

I can't remember how much the fitting actually was. It did take him most of a day to take up the old carpet, replace grippers that needed doing and then fit the carpet - the stairs were pretty fiddly due to the turn at the top and he did an amazing job.

We had landing and stairs done last year and was about £300. That was with underlay etc. Independent fitters that worked with local carpet shop.

We spent about £600 with Carpetright on the same sort of job. Although we had our tiny porch done too.

Some people say that Carpetwrong tempt in the mugs with low headline prices on cheap carpet, and make their money out of overpriced underlay, smoothedge, stainproofing, thresholds and fitting, as mugs don't notice or know what a fair price would be.

Buying carpets currently and shopping around makes a vast difference. For the rooms we are looking at we have been quoted £3k-£4 for everything fully fitted by two local shops both independent. Have now ordered all separately - best underlay, grippers etc from one place, carpet from another place and an independent fitter booked. Total cost will be ~£1.7k. Exactly the same carpet and actually a better underlay - you can get the very best underlay for

I actually found the fitting price quite reasonable (£80 for two big rooms) but everything else (gripper rods, threshold bars, underlay) was two or three times the cost elsewhere. They were perfectly fine for me to supply though. I wanted super thick acoustic underlay in our loft, and they couldn't supply 9mm underlay anyway.