Carpet Installation Costs & Prices | HomeFloorGuide.com
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J. Fletcher - Flooring Expert and Consumer Advocate
The current cost to have new carpet installed in your
home;
Extra fees
& charges you might encounter;
How to save money on carpet installation costs.
Don't fall for those low-cost carpet installation
specials that home improvement stores advertise. Remember the old saying... If
it sounds too good to be true....
It's very important that you have your new carpet installed
properly or you stand to lose as much as half of it's intended life span.
Some
carpet installers are not very well trained and will do a lousy job seaming it
up, stretching in the carpet and trimming it in nicely.
You want to hire a
carpet installer who has at least five years of experience for simple carpet
jobs, and at least 10 years of experience for difficult carpet jobs.
A simple
carpet job would be an apartment using a low quality carpet and padding. A
difficult carpet job would be a large job of more than 100 yards, or a job using
an expensive grade of carpet, or a job involving a pattern match carpet, or a
looped Berber carpet, or a job with a curved flight of stairs, a staircase
with spindles or any other upholstery work and so on.
The more involved a carpet job is, the more it's going to cost
to have it done right!
The Real Numbers:
You can expect to pay about $2.50 per yard for
installation in the southern states and as much as $5.50 per yard or more in
northern states.
Some Carpet Retailers Pad Installation Costs.
Some carpet retailers choose make additional profits by
padding the installation charges, often adding as much as 25% to the total
installation cost. I feel this is an unfair charge to the consumer. Carpet
retailers already make a fair and reasonable profit from the carpet and pad.
Charging more for installation costs is unwarranted and unethical in my
opinion.
If your carpet retailer has higher than usual installation costs,
you might want to shop around to see if other nearby carpet stores have
lower and more reasonable installation prices.
Beyond the basic carpet installation
Some carpet dealers offer specials on carpet installation.
Some of these specials are too good to be true. Free carpet installation
sounds good when you hear about it, but in the end, is it really as good as
it sounds? Not always.
The basic carpet installation does not include any
extras. If your carpet installation job needs any extras, then you may find
that the final bill for your carpet install is much higher than you expect.
Don’t assume that their low price installation is valid n your situation.
When your carpet is installed, you may be faced with a sizable final bill
that you did not expect.
It’s the unexpected extra fees and charges that can add
up in a hurry if you’re not careful. Installing carpet on stairs will
almost always demand an additional charge. Depending on the type of stairs
you have it will be anywhere from $3 for a standard box step to as much as
$15 per step for a double-wrapped stair with a pattern-match Berber.
The
longer it takes to upholster a step the more it will cost. The standard
flight of stairs will usually cost about $75 to $125 in addition to the normal cost
of carpet installation.
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Carpet Installation Costs
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