Cost to re-carpet house?

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Hi everyone - hoping to get some advice please on costs to re-carpet house, if anyone has had similar done recently. House is in the SE (not London but Home Counties) and we moved in last year - carpet is good quality but ugly, driving me to distraction every time I look at it so am desperate to replace it! But need to keep costs as low as is feasible. Two options:

-Re-carpet living room, hall (would ideally like something other than carpet in the hall but aware this will probably drive costs up), stairs, landing, master bedroom (all the same carpet currently)

• The above plus re-carpet further three bedrooms. Carpet in these is not as good quality but less offensive to the eye!

Can anyone please advise on what we might be looking at in terms of costs? We’ll be getting people in for quotes but keen to get a rough idea at the outset. Thanks so much, I really appreciate it.

Depends on the sizes of your rooms, the quality you pick & if you need new underlay.

We did 2 bedrooms, living room, stairs and landing plus laminate in the hallway for £1,800 but then re did a small study in a better quality carpet & it was £550 for just that small room.

I would pick a carpet off a chain like this and put in measurements to give an idea of costs.

www.carpetright.co.uk/carpets/

You will have to suck up the cost on the hall unfortunately as hard to get discounts.

For bedrooms Know your room measurements
Check showrooms for end of rolls. I got a carpetright carpet that retailed at 1500 marked down to 200!

Also if you find one you like check online I had a big room (18 x 26 ft) and saved £300 on the carpet buying online it still cost about £1500 (ouch!)

Depending on house size if you are goinbv for all bedrooms too I'd budget 4k including underlay and fitting and hope to get it in for under 3k

Circa £4,500 with decent underlay (very important) and decent carpet 80% wool. Less if you select cheaper carpet. Total price.

£3300 we paid for full house, including laminate in one room and new underlay.
Underlay is key!
All depends on the style, thickness etc that you pick. Best to shop around but I find the independent carpet places better than the big stores like carpet right etc.

Thanks everyone, really helpful. So it sounds like roughly £3.5-4.5k for the whole house (option B) but potentially ways to do it a bit cheaper (e.g. depending on the carpet quality, looking for end of roll, independent carpet shops etc.). Option A obviously also cheaper and sounds a bit like what Totallyworthit did for £1.8k... do you mind me asking if you are also SE based please?

Yes definitely pick an independent shop they are much cheaper with good fitters. The chains are way overpriced from my experience.

I’ve paid today just under £1700 for a 4 bed house. Few things to consider…
My dads best friend is doing the fitting so I assume I’m getting “mates rates”. Underlay for upstairs doesn’t need replacing. And even though I needed just over 100 square meters because rolls of carpet come generally in 4 or 5m length (I’ve gone 4m) I’ve ended up having to buy about 110 square meters.

Approx half of that is needed for underlay. So I paid £100 for the underlay (this was a unique bargain as he had some spare from a previous job) I would expect to pay about £5 a square meter.

He’s charged me £4 for fitting plus rounded up to £450 for gripper and the pain of doing hall stairs and landing.

I paid £10.50 for a carpet again through him at cost. But could have found this online for £15sqm.

My tips would be find a colour you like and then set minimum requirements like a tog level and warranty period then just buy the cheapest that meets those. If it’s 1.2 tog 15 year warranty and looks the part it’s fine. Never use chains like carpet right. Order online say for £15 a meter and try and pay a fitter £5 a meter or £150 a day.

I previously got a smaller property done about 75sqm and paid £2500 when my friend lived abroad (and half was fitted in karndean) so I hope this gives some idea of costs.