Cost of recarpetting a house

[LethargeMarg]

Extended 1960s semi detached house
East mids
Would be lounge/ diner, stairs, and four bedrooms and upstairs hall.
I have no idea how much this would cost ? Just after a very rough idea if I'm talking £100s or £1000s.
Ideally a pretty forgiving carpet that the cat won't want to destroy !!

You are talking 1000s including the fitting, but it really depends on what carpet you choose. Pure wool is £££ but there's an enormous range of prices available. Do you have a local carpet fitter shop? Pop in and look at some of the samples and ask how much they are per m2. They should offer to come and do a free measure up and quote you.

I’ve just had quote for three bedrooms, stairs & split level landing plus the front room also included new underlay & moving furniture came in at just under four thousand pounds. Was pretty expensive per sq metre so if I went cheaper price would come down accordingly.

Wow very tricky to answer!!

I think we paid approx£200 for the bedroom, stairs cost more guessing £400, lounge cost £800....but this was 3/4 years ago.
If youre doing the whole lot I imagine you could get a good discount.

This time last year we did 4 bedrooms and hall/stairs (x2) and landing for £1300 including fitting. Cheaper end of spectrum, not wool.

It cost me £1500 to have 3 bedrooms (2 doubles) a small hall and stairs done, if that helps. Wool carpet. Was pleasantly surprised.

I paid roughly 500 quid a room for a thick carpet plus fitting (£60 quid a room) I didn't do them all at the same time (2 rooms a time ) over a couple of years. Same carpet throughout. You can't tell which rooms were done first.

It entirely depends on the size of the house and the cost per square metre of the carpet you pick but a whole house will be in the thousands not in the hundreds. Plus you need underlay, gripper rods, door bars and fitting. Plus then you might need to get doors adjusted.

I remember doing our old house 17 years ago and it was about £3.5k for living room, small playroom, four bedrooms, stairs and landing.

It’s not hard to work it out though to get a ballpark figure. 4m x 5m room is 20 square metres so if you get carpet at £30 a square metre that’s 600 in carpet. Decent underlay at £20 a square metre is £400, box of gripper rods and two door bars £50 plus fitting (often “free” in the chains) but otherwise about £200. - £1250 for that room with that particular carpet.

It's a few thousand. How many thousand depends on the carpet.
My advice is get the best quality underlay. You can go cheaper on the carpet itself but good underlay is essential.

My parents recently had a brand new house carpeted and they used the same carpet throughout. It meant they could buy an entire roll and they got it cheaper because of this. I have no idea how much it cost though.

I think it really depends - when we first moved into our house, we had 3 bedrooms, stairs, landing and lounge for £600 - that included underlay and fitting plus cheap carpet. It was all we could afford, did the job and actually wore very well.

8+years later, we had same 3 bedrooms, plus an extra bedroom (and a bit more landing) done, stairs & landing but not the lounge - so not massively different square footage - for about £2.5k.

We just had our stairs and two landings done (one big set of stairs, a landing, few stairs, then another landing) and it cost £900 including fitting. You are definitely looking at ££££s, probably close to 5k.

We had the best underlay and then used end rolls for the carpet, so no room matches. It cost just over £1k including fittings.

You can go onto a carpet website and put in the measurements and mess about with different quality to get a figure for that and then add in fitting, underlay etc. When we had ours done about 6 years ago, we were about 2k for 4 beds, upstairs hall, stairs and our downstairs family room. That was including underlay and fitting, plus fitting vinyl in 2 bathrooms but not supplying. We used an independent fitter who ordered the carpet we wanted. It was a decent wool mix and still looks immaculate.

An alternative is to get decent underlay and cheap carpet and just replace it more frequently. I reckon we can easily get 20 years out of the current carpet, but if you move regularly or change decor a lot, you might want to go the cheaper route.

Depends what quality carpet you select. The better quality carpet with decent underlay the more expensive.

£4k would be about right for moderate carpet that will last. You can go much higher and a bit lower as well.

I got offcuts of very good wool carpet for our bedrooms, as it’s so much upheaval ! It meant we could get better quality carpet than otherwise. Cost £250/room with fitting and good underlay. Two bedrooms are the same colour, one and the stairs are marginally different, but not so you’d notice.

It will definitely be in the thousands. I did my (not massive) bedroom last year and it was £390 plus £50 odd to the fitter, and that didn’t include underlay so the cost will also depend on if you need that.
If you measure up and go on the website of a carpet place most of them have price calculators.

Just had bedroom done, 80%wool carpet, best underlay available room about 5x4m cost is £750 in London.

We paid 1700 for 3 bedrooms (1925 semi detached)

Anything from £1500 to 10's of thousands depending on the carpet!

Thanks - will definitely look at some websites - more pricey than I thought but I think it would make the whole house look so much better so probably worth the investment

I paid £3k for smallish living room, hall plus two flights of stairs and small landing. One big and 2 medium bedrooms. I'd say that was medium quality.

Have just paid £4300 for 100% wool carpets in 3 bedrooms, 2 stairs and 2 landings. Including new underlay, door bars, fitting etc.

Recently purchased a good quality carpet from Carpetrite. Average sized 4 bed house - we had the hallway, stairs, landing and one bedroom carpeted. Cost was £1500 all in (including fitting and underlay/grippers) I would say you’d be looking at £3K if your bedrooms are average size.

I've just had my house done (2 rooms downstairs, 4 bedrooms, stairs and landing. £2.6k fitted but we only replaced the underlay in the living room and on the stairs. Carpet was approx £20 a sqm. Thus was through an independent trader working out of his van. Quote from high street shop was double that.