Hi guys,
Hope someone can give me some advice here - I'll try to keep this simple as poss but apologies if I overcomplicate this!
We are wanting some striped carpet laying on our landing and stairs and have seen some Candy Striped Wool Twist in our local carpet shop at a reasonable £13 psqm.
Now, we got them out to measure up and quote and it came back at £330. This seemed a bit expensive to me but they say that they are only charging for what is being used (effectively 3m wide), not for the whole width of the roll. I've also worked out that if they are charging us £50 for "cheap underlay" for stairs only, that they are charging £50 for fitting.
Now, we live in a 3 storey house so I got to thinking that it might be cheaper to buy enough to do both landings/stairs in one go as the 4m Roll width is wide enough to do both.
However they have come back and said it will be another £295 on top to do the top landing and I just cant work out why or how!?
So, my question is this:
The main landing is 5.5m long and 2m wide.
the top floor is 4.4m long and 1.9m wide.
The are 13 stairs on each case and they are 45cm per step (rise and tread). Allowing 50cm for luck this makes the stairs 6.5m long.
With the top part of the landing being 1.75m, the total longest run of carpet needed is 7.25m.
If we get a 7.25m length of carpet by the 4m width, roughly cutting the carpet down the middle leaves us with 2 rectangular pieces of carpet which are long enough and wide enough to do each landing/stairs.
So 7.5 x 4 is 30m2 of carpet at 13 = £390.....plus whatever for fitting.
Surely at £625 this is too expensive?!
Can anyone shed any light on this for me?
I apologise for rambling on but I hope I managed to get the situation across OK!
Thanks again,
Phill
Hope someone can give me some advice here - I'll try to keep this simple as poss but apologies if I overcomplicate this!
We are wanting some striped carpet laying on our landing and stairs and have seen some Candy Striped Wool Twist in our local carpet shop at a reasonable £13 psqm.
Now, we got them out to measure up and quote and it came back at £330. This seemed a bit expensive to me but they say that they are only charging for what is being used (effectively 3m wide), not for the whole width of the roll. I've also worked out that if they are charging us £50 for "cheap underlay" for stairs only, that they are charging £50 for fitting.
Now, we live in a 3 storey house so I got to thinking that it might be cheaper to buy enough to do both landings/stairs in one go as the 4m Roll width is wide enough to do both.
However they have come back and said it will be another £295 on top to do the top landing and I just cant work out why or how!?
So, my question is this:
The main landing is 5.5m long and 2m wide.
the top floor is 4.4m long and 1.9m wide.
The are 13 stairs on each case and they are 45cm per step (rise and tread). Allowing 50cm for luck this makes the stairs 6.5m long.
With the top part of the landing being 1.75m, the total longest run of carpet needed is 7.25m.
If we get a 7.25m length of carpet by the 4m width, roughly cutting the carpet down the middle leaves us with 2 rectangular pieces of carpet which are long enough and wide enough to do each landing/stairs.
So 7.5 x 4 is 30m2 of carpet at 13 = £390.....plus whatever for fitting.
Surely at £625 this is too expensive?!
Can anyone shed any light on this for me?
I apologise for rambling on but I hope I managed to get the situation across OK!
Thanks again,
Phill