Sourcing your own carpets?

[JP_]

I just had a local fitter fit a carpet for £70. I told him that I was going to order a remnant from Burts for £80 and he said he'd match the price for a bit of cheap and cheerful felt backed carpet. So, fitting, with grippers, Cloud 9 underlay and new carpet, £150 all in.

Call up some fitters, they might be happy to fit only. If anything, it's ordering and receiving a carpet is one less thing for them to worry about.

 

[flameport]

and it seemed OK with 0% finance.

It might be sold as 0%, but the cost of the finance & sales commission is included in the price you were quoted.

No one lends money for nothing.

 

[Ian H]

Sainsbury's do 0% purchases over 31 months on one of their cards.

I've got one on the way to finish the house.

 

[dazlight]

Why not just go a local shop and talk to them about the prices. I only supply and fit. To many times have a got to a job and carpet is short or damaged. Laminate not enough boxes or wrong underlay.
Ok it will cost more but takes the risk out of it.

 

[Ian H]

Yes, I'm going to use the local guy. He can supply the carpet for £1 more/mtr than I can find it but what he says makes perfect sense:

Hi Ian
We can get that carpet , Best price we can do is £18.50 Sq Mt
Advantage of buying from a shop is any issues with it we can deal with the manufacturer for you etc
If you send a link for the Striped one I will look into that
Also sizes required for that and if you can get me a total price of all carpets , underlay grippers etc i can see if we can get close.
Kind regards
Mark

 

[dazlight]

Nice one mate.

 

[Ian H]

All the sums are done.

Carpetright £2872.55
Local Guy £2126.00

Saving £746.55

 

[Ian H]

Carpets done

 

[Keithmac]

Carpetright did ours 12 years ago and did an excellent job to be fair, all upstairs are still theirs.

We basically moved into a shell of a house so got it all done at once.

I pulled the livingroom carpet up last year to put laminate down and the underlay was still perfectly useable.

Fair play for saving £700 though!.

 

[Ian H]

Kids are enjoying it

 

[jc69817]

https://www.facebook.com/andyscarpetsnorthwest/
This guy is based in Hyde so not too far. I bought all my own and fitted gripper and underlay and got him in for the hall stairs and landing carpet only. He did a great job and very reasonable.

 

[Ian H]

The guy that did ours was Mark from http://www.carpetsrochdale.co.uk/

 

[jc69817]

Should have read it all then I’d have known you were sorted lol