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 Doesn't that seem quite expensive or am I wildy out of date with costings???

Buy underlay online: that is where CR make most of their money as their mark up on it is astronomical. We always provide our own underlay - in fact we once had one their fitters ask us for the website details.

We had new stairs and landing carpet a few months ago, similar area in size and it cost about £380. I'm fairly sure the carpet was about £16.99/sq m. We used a local independent carpet warehouse and their fitter.

Carpetright looked cheap at first when getting a new bathroom floor fitted, but once they added on things such as delivering the flooring to the store and other items etc the cost just about doubled... Was a bit cross with dh who ordered it without asking for a cost breakdown!

Try somewhere else. My carpet man turns up in his van with a load of carpet samples. I stood in the street and chose last time

Had an utter disaster with Carpetright - would NEVER use them again. Discovered afterwards many people had same experience. Try Googling "Carpetright problems" and you will see.

Conversely we used John Lewis for the stair and landing carpet. Waited until they had a super sale (they hold these for flooring in July and Jan every year). Got beautiful heavyweight wool blend carpet reduced from £30/sq m to £15/sm. I didn't want the carpet laid 'waterfall" style where the carpet runs from one stair to another. I wanted "french capping" style, also known as american style, where the carpet is fitted individually onto each step and the riser piece is fitted separately. It is time consuming and fiddly to fit, but it looks extremely smart.

The John Lewis quote was extremely reasonable and it took the fitter about 6 hrs to do it. Perfect, perfect job, they cleaned up and frantically hoovered afterwards, I was so impressed. Next time we buy carpets it will be from JL for sure, waiting until they have the special buy sales is the way to go.

Carpet fright do tend to be a lot more expensive than small independents,why not ask around and perhaps get other quotes from recommendation? Despite what has been said above thread it is a skilled job to fit a carpet properly, stretch pattern, tension and pile direction do need to be taken into consideration, its not just about unrolling and cutting. The problem with buying carpet/underlay/gripper etc separately occurs when you get a problem. The underlay may fail, (a lot of online underlays are seconds) The carpet may arrive short or faulty (would you be willing to pay the fitter twice if he couldn't fit the first time because of this?, carpet may develop a fault later,may get replaced, but if you used your own fitter you would have to pay to have it fitted again) The fitting may be crap,can't complain to the carpet retailer if they didn't fit it.
Buy everything from the same place and you have one point of contact if there are any problems, and in reality shouldn't be much,if any, more expensive.