Price For Carpeting A Floor
I know everyone is in a different area. I'm up here in Wisconsin. What should be a good price for having someone carpet a floor? I have no idea. Can I do it myself? Would this be too hard?? Your thoughts...
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figure a $1.00 a square foot.
get it done for you, don't waste your time.
Carpet is the one area that I will never even think about doing myself. The labor is very cheap and it is one of those items that the learning curve can be expensive.
Just watch one carpet installation, they take out the old stuff, haul it away and install the new, when they are done the house looks like a million bucks. Just watch one install and you will know why it is the best money you will spend.
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Hi ddemott,
To buy a medium grade carpet in my area and have it installed it averages about $2.40 per sq ft.
You can buy cheeper carpet, but you may get a cheeper result. Talk with other property owners in your area and ask them who they have install the carpet for their rentals and how much it cost!
Best of Success!
BAMZ
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On the quality front - Cheap carpet does not wear well in traffic areas. Do the test, walk barefoot on the cheap stuff. Your feet do not lie!
Medium carpet and better pad are solid solutions.
Call for estimates and watch the newspaper for sales or closeouts. A builder may pass their discount if you can pay cash.
Eric & Rosa
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A simple and cost effective trick for carpet in a rental to make it last longer is to vary the pad you use, on stairs put in the highest grade pad you can find, this will help keep the stairs from wearing out faster than the rest of the carpet, only ends up costing maybe $2 more per stair.
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I have found that installing the carpet my self cost me significantly more than having the whole job done by a proffesional carpet retailer. Before you do anything shop around.
Everybody and their dog wants to sell carpet and they will do almost anything to get you to buy from them. watch the consessions "$99 installs" "Free instalation" "Free pad" check your home improvement places (I think Home Depot is expensive) furniture places (RC Willey) flooring places (only sell carpet, tile, and wood) get the best price.
Josh
I've found that a company called Pro Source (www.pswholesale.com) is a solid place to work with. You don't always have to shop around and you can buy wholesale. You have to sign up as a member and they will let you in as a REI. The store in Des Moines, Iowa that I work with has a showroom that you can browse carpets, etc. You can even bring in customers to to look at carpet and/or take samples to show. This might be useful if you have a buyer and they want a certain carpet.
They have a very good signature carpet brand although the name escapes me now. The medium grade that I use for rehab is roughly $1.50/SF with installation roughly $1.00/SF.
They also have wood flooring and tile. The tile I purchased seemed expensive when I priced it at lowes for something that looks the same. I don't know anything about ceramic tile so I have no idea if I was comparing apples to apples or apples to oranges.
I've also found that finding a good carpet installer is key. The guy I use now works alone and is very SLOW but good. I need to find a new guy.
GOOD LUCK TO ALL
Pro Source is a cool company, just a bit over wholesale. In Orlando they make you sign in as you enter, you need to be a member to get in, all they ask is that you are providing flooring to an end user, all of their products are mark at full retail and your price is 50% of the marked price. This is done so you can bring a buyer in and tell Mr buyer he can take 25% off of the marked price or 50% off if you want to pass along the savings, this is all done in a very slick way and Mr buyer never will know your account was credited for the 25% difference, Check em out.........[ Edited by rickomarsh on Date 11/16/2003 ]