Carpet for a large room

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DH and I bought a prophecy house 2 years ago and have been gradually doing it up since. We are now at the stage where we want to carpet our living room (after lockdown has finished) and get rid of the wooden flooring that's down. I definitely want carpet after having wood for 2 years.

When we have measured the room it is 8.10m x 5.6m and I'm struggling on my online browsing to find carpet this wide. Only 4m or 5m.

Has this happened to anyone? Did you out a joint in? I'm hoping to spend sub £1k as we're dunning low on funds.

A project house. A prophecy house would probably be worth more

Yes they just join the pieces together. Bit of thermal tape underneath to stop it lifting.

As a PP mentioned, you can get large cuts of carpet but yup, they're more money. I would look into it though as I think you can tell when it's two pieces joined together.

My fiancée’s grandparents have a huge living room (and house) they couldn’t find carpet to fit in one piece so they joined two pieces together, it’s lovely carpet, but you can notice the join.

Thank you all. Yes I'm concerned about being able to see the join. We usually use a small local shop and have for years but I don't know what they have.

There's a stockist local to me for bronte carpets so I'll ring them once lockdown is finished. I may have to pick up some over time and save up.

We've always lived in small modern houses so never encountered this before.

It depends on the carpet how noticeable the join is. There's a join in our bedroom carpet which has a dense velvet pile but it took me over two years to spot it and I'm observant. It was there when we bought the house, it's not one we had fitted.

I've got an over 5m each way room to carpet too, but only 20/60cm over. Pre-lockdown, a fitter reckoned they could just stretch a 5m wide roll to fit

I am wondering about whether I could get a chunk of carpet with edging, and leave the wood around the edges?
Or would that just be what's known as a rug?

If not, can you "zone" the room and have some of it with a wood floor? Perhaps not want you'd ideally want but possibly worth ruling in, to rule out.

Wehave a large square shaped room that has a join in the carpet, but the join is close to one wall as the room is only a bit bigger than the roll was ( approx a foot away). The join is very good and hardly visible, though I can see it as I know it's there, but being close to the wall it has some furniture covering it so not noticeable. I am not sure I would like the join through the centre though..

Got carpet for a very large room on Amazon.

My dads a floor layer. We have three joins in the spare bedroom (we had enough left to carpet this room after laying the carpet in my bedroom) and you can’t see a single join. He sewed them together and used special adhesive. If you want it done professionally you will pay more but you won’t see the join.

What colour are you looking for ?

DH is a floor layer, they have done a few 5 star hotels with massive rooms, the carpets are joined and you really can't tell.