New carpet costs

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I've never re-carpeted a house before so I'm clueless on costs, but we've been in our current house for 3.5 years now and the carpet was here when we moved, I believe it was a good few years old when we bought it but now it's really quite worn and flat so looking at replacing it at the beginning of next year. It's a 3 bed property with typical new build size rooms (house around 15 years old) and the carpet is only up the stairs and upstairs, we have hard wood flooring downstairs. I know it's like how long is a piece of string, but just wondering if anyone has a house of a similar size and knows roughly how much to budget for new carpets to be fitted up the stairs and in 3 bedrooms? Or would you mind sharing what you spent? It will likely just be your average carpet, nothing flash.

Just had our stair and landing carpet replaced. It was around £14-15 a metre, and the total bill came to £320 ish.

If you look at the Tapi website, it helps you to calculate the costs, including fitting.

Last summer, Midlands, average carpet with 8mm underlay, £440 incl fitting.

I would highly recommend Tapi carpets. They come and measure for free and show you samples. Then give you a quote. You can haggle with them also.

We paid £900 for stairs, large landing and 2 large bedrooms a few months ago. Decent quality carpet and underlay.

Thanks for sharing, these prices are less than I had assumed so that's really good to know!

It can be expensive or a lot cheaper. I used to buy (30+ years ago) the most expensive wool carpets and they wore really well and never got thin patches etc, but they went out of date and I got sick to the back teeth of the colour. Now I buy much cheaper, consider the wash ability and think that they will last me 5/7 years. It helps that today’s synthetic carpets feel much better under foot than they used to

We're paying £1500 this month for two reception rooms and a small bedroom, but that includes fairly "naice" carpet, underlay, removal and disposal of existing carpet, and shaving of a door bottom to allow for a thicker pile.

Local independent supplier so more pricey than the big chains etc.

Forgot to say, £440 was for a 15x15ft room.

When we spoke to our local independent carpet shop last month, rough costs per sq m were £15+ for carpet (probably looking £20-25 min though as the carpet in the £15 ball park was very thin, more if you want wool), £10 for decent 10mm underlay and £5 for fitting.

So roughly £35-£40 per sq m, depending on how your rooms fit onto a 4/5m roll of carpet. 1 small and 1 large bedroom at ours will be about £1k including underlay and fitting. Gripper strip on top of needed (but it's not super expensive in the grand scheme of things). From memory when we used them before to do stairs, fitting on stairs was more expensive but not sure if that was because we had a spiral staircase at the time.

Costs at Carpetright and Tapi were similar but have used the local independent one twice before with no problems and know they offer good service so will likely go with them again. Also thought the independent place had better choice at our price point. They said 2-4 weeks from order to fitting and will come out and double check all the measurements we've done to make sure it'll all fit as planned.

One thing worth noting with carpet is to not skimp on underlay. Quality underlay makes even the cheapest carpet feel better; crap underlay makes expensive carpets feel cheap.

Hi,

we’ve recently had a quotation from Tapi carpets. I wondered if you could elaborate on how you haggled?

we’ve got a whole house to do and the budget is practically zero so we need all the help we can get.

thank you
Em

We have just had four large bedrooms (old house), landing and stairs carpeted in a good quality wool carpet with top notch underlay and it cost £5,000 excluding fitting 😳. We will never have it done again so it will have to last around 20 years. It's lovely but was expensive!!

Careful, as Tapi use the same product / brands as other companies, but call it something different, so you can't compare prices. A friend bought laminate and realised how much they'd paid with Tapi and yet how cheaply it was available elsewhere. No chance of a price match, as it had been named something different but was identical in every respect.

Recently used Tapi this summer.

To be honest best of a 'bad bunch', I went to 4 shops and the service I received was pretty atrocious everywhere. I really wanted quotes for both laminate and carpet but everywhere seemed reluctant to want to quote for both as if I was mad and needed to decide before the quote- I know they're very different but I wanted to know the price difference between the two and the perceived 'value for money' would factor in my decision.

Tapi pretty much refused to allow me to even look at laminates - they went about needing to level the floor, and it's cold underfoot, and the herringbone doesn't look good... I basically gave up asking. I don't know if they just have a load of customer complaints or get no margin from laminates, but they could not have 'unsold me' laminates more if they tried!

I did end up going for carpet with them though- it was a pretty standard plain carpet. It was £600 all in for a 3x3.5m space - carpet&underlay & fitting. Removing the old carpet was about £20 so I went with that for convenience. Again, I had to really push for what that cost was though, it was really annoying nothing was itemised on my quote so I couldn't evaluate the optional parts.

They also were very reluctant (pretty much refused) to come and measure - I guess it eats into their profitability. So I did it myself.

The only good thing is the independent carpet fitters said it was a nice carpet (to themselves, I was working in another room - otherwise I'd take that with a pinch of salt just being polite). So I take some comfort from the fact these people who deal with carpets every day thought it was a good one.

£2000 for 3 bedrooms, a landing and 2 sets of stairs, underlay & wool mix carpet.

£300 for 2 small bathrooms, vinyl.

I've never bought carpet off the roll. I usually go to a local discount store that sells end of rolls, off cuts etc. for a fraction of the cost.

I've carpeted my entire house in 100% wool Berber as I've decorated. All the bedrooms are exactly the same and the hall & two flights of stairs are very similar in colour and weave with a slightly bigger loop. Gone there for years.

£2500, including fitting, this year for wool carpet (about £35psqm) and quality underlay. Stairs, 2 x bedrooms 10ft x 12ft and a smaller wardrobe room 7ft x 7ft.

I avoided Tapi, Carpetright etc and went to a local independent carpet shop, who's carpet fitters are employed by them and take pride in their fitting. Carpetright for example use fitters that aren't employed by them. Go independent.

Underlay will be about £7/m, carpet anything from £15/m and fitting usually £5/m. So basically from about £25/m all in. I’ve just not long carpeted my entire house following renovations, and small local places were doing much better prices than the likes of Tapi-nothing in this world is “free”, the cost’s just written in!

I used our local independent carpet shop, when he came to measure up the bedroom he checked and said the original underlay was really good quality so it didn't need replacing!
We wouldn't have known any different but because he didn't rip us off I won't go anywhere else for flooring now.
I recommend them to everyone.

I just did mine, 3 bedrooms (2 double, 1 single), stairs and landing, thick fairly good quality (acrylic wool mix) carpet and Berber for the stairs and landing. £880 for the carpet, £150 for fitting. Small independent. I’m in NI.

I had to carpet on a budget, my local independent store came out, measured up and said they could reuse the underlay and even the grippers. Stairs, landing and 3mx 4m dining room came in at £300 including fitting and it looks bloody good! It probably won't last more than around 5 years but, for that price, who cares!

Stay away from tapi carpets they quoted me over £600 for floor in my 8×4 ft bathroom. Obscene prices

I carpeted two bedrooms with really good underlay for £600 from an independent. I avoided wool because I've had issues with moths in my previous home.

I tend to spend a lot on underlay because that's what makes the carpet last.

I would never again go to Carpet Right and my friend had trouble with their fitters.

As you are having quite a bit done you may be able to negotiate the price.