$199 Carpet Installation For Your Entire House. - Page 3 - Contractor Talk - Professional Construction and Remodeling Forum

hvacmanager · 02-26-2008, 06:36 PM

Mike could you drop me a line I have a carpet job to do and would like to go over it with you.

Thanks hvacmanager at hot mail dot com

Floordude · 02-26-2008, 07:04 PM

That same roll of cushion cost me, $35

Angus · 02-28-2008, 02:47 PM

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Originally Posted by Floordude

That same roll of cushion cost me, $35

Really? 30 yard roll, at 1.75 cost is $52.50. I'm in the business to make money. The 20 yard roll is $35.00. That would make a retail price of $58.34 sy.

Demonseed · 02-28-2008, 03:22 PM

30 yard roll of 6# rebond pad here is $35 (as of today). My price list is in the van, unsure what the 8# is going for now. Although I do think pad will be inching upward in wholesale cost soon. Home depot was selling a shaved 1/2 inch 6# rebond pad for over $120 per 30 yard roll last week.

Bill_Vincent · 02-29-2008, 08:26 AM

Here-- check this link out, and then tell me about HD and Lowes quality installations:

http://www.my3cents.com/gSearch.cgi?...RID%3A11&hl=en

Floordude · 02-29-2008, 11:50 PM

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Originally Posted by Angus

Really? 30 yard roll, at 1.75 cost is $52.50. I'm in the business to make money. The 20 yard roll is $35.00. That would make a retail price of $58.34 sy.

That is a 30 yard roll of Leggett & Pratt.

Home Depot and Lowes both sell it for .48¢ a foot, last time I browsed. I sell it for .35¢ - .40¢

Angus · 03-02-2008, 12:41 PM

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Originally Posted by Floordude

That is a 30 yard roll of Leggett & Pratt.

Home Depot and Lowes both sell it for .48¢ a foot, last time I browsed. I sell it for .35¢ - .40¢

.35 is $3.15 sy. $3.15 X 30 =$94.50. How is that $35.00 a roll? Looks like we are all in the same range??

Floordude · 03-02-2008, 09:37 PM

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Originally Posted by Angus

.35 is $3.15 sy. $3.15 X 30 =$94.50. How is that $35.00 a roll? Looks like we are all in the same range??

I buy = $35

I sell = $94.50

That's how.

TDF · 03-18-2008, 09:39 AM

The carpet and pad has to be special order. Special order carpet and pad is marked up unbelievably high. They also will probably get a Lowes card and Lowes will make money on that too. Once they have a Lowes card they are more likely to shop at Lowes in the future. They have it figured out.

fourcornerhome · 03-18-2008, 11:03 AM

when I got my carpet, I got 3 bids..home depot ,lowes , and a local store...one had carpet sale,one had free pad, one had free installation...damned if all 3 were identical prices.You don't get nothing for free.. they figure it in somewhere.

Bill_Vincent · 03-18-2008, 09:09 PM

I'm shocked.

**Floorwizard** · 03-19-2008, 10:51 AM

Completely suprised here..........

Vinylmaster · 05-22-2008, 09:10 PM

I'm just so glad that my trade is Vinyl floors...ha ha

WarnerConstInc. · 05-22-2008, 09:52 PM

Not a carpet guy myself, but the links to the reviews were amusing. The customers that were complaining about issuse seemed to me to be the kind of customer that I have learnt to run and hide from because after 3 minutes I knew it would be nothing but trouble. Let Blowes and Deblow piss them off. Eventually they will realized you should hire someone who just sells a few things, not flowers, vaccums, batteries, candy bars, lawn mowers, chain saw, water heaters, INDOOR LUMBER YARD <------ (most horrible idea in years) Just think about it, they keep making guys like you and I look better and better everyday! Come on lowes offer chimney services, Depot please come put a tub 'condom' over my old ugly leaky tub. he he he

csheafer · 05-28-2008, 07:08 PM

I happened to have been the installation manager for a shop here in Kansas for about 2 years that did ALL the Home Depot work.
There is both good and bad with the big box stores but they DO stand behind their work no matter what in my experience.
They do run great sales from time to time and they DON"T jack up the price to do it, they are true sales.
They still pay the shop the regular price and their sales increase very drammaticly.
They do care about their customers but of course there can be and always will be problem jobs.
My shop ran 10 to 15 crews a day for Home Depot when they have sales like this, and when your doing that kind of volume, your going to have some problems.
All in all, they are good to their customers.

Mike Costello · 05-28-2008, 07:30 PM

I notice you say you use to.

Me too, I owned and ran a workroom with Home Depot as our main client

It was sweet when we got paid to measure and install. I can say with certainty that we serviced them well with quality measures and installs.

Then we lost the measures to a national corperation and now the installs have gone that way too. Not many local mechanics doing the work around here.

Between the Box Stores and the Empires and the Lumber Liquidators of this world- they have all taken just enough buisness away from each other and local stores, that its tough for anyone to stay busy now.

Gotta hustle alot more for less money than I was making ten years ago.

So yeah, they suck, but it is handy to have a place to buy tackless and seam tape on every corner isnt it?

Saturn9876 · 06-08-2008, 07:00 AM

Just last week I had Lowe's carpet my house. The install price was actually $99 for a whole house then. They also honored a 10% off coupon I bought online. The installers were professionals and a Lowes rep actually dropped by to see how the work was progressing. They haul the old carpet and pad away and finished my house in 6 hours. (6 rooms) It's true they make up the money in the carpet sale but you cant argue with the results. The guy who did the work did admit Lowes has had many inferior installers in the past but this guy was a pro. In my business HO's often bring up Lowes "prices" for product installs and I understand the frustration of competing with them. But hey, this is capitalism, they offer there services and if they can do work for cheap, they deserve it.

PS....there was no charge for moving my furniture....although there isnt much anyway as I can barely afford to eat these days.

Bud Cline · 06-08-2008, 01:18 PM

Just shows you how much markup Lowe's has in their carpet. A carpet that the store down the street is actually selling for a lot less but you can't prove it because the product names for the same carpet are being changed to disquise the product and prohibit comparison shopping.

If your happy with your expenditure so be it. The truth is...you got nothing.

Bill_Vincent · 06-08-2008, 03:49 PM

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But hey, this is capitalism, they offer there services and if they can do work for cheap, they deserve it.

I don't give a crap what you think you got. You get what you pay for. You think Lowes did right by you? (and this is coming from a tile guy, nevermind someone who really KNOWs carpeting) You want to bet the pad quality was crap? Nevermind the fact that the carpet, although the color may look the same as some better carpets, it may not be as colorfast, might stain a little easier, won't have the same density, and you'll be replacing that carpet within 3-5 years.

You buy a dollar's worth for 10 cents, chances are what you bought isn't worth a dime.

Bud Cline · 06-08-2008, 04:24 PM

The big boxes frequently employ the P.T. Barnum philosophy.

The sorry thing is.....

it works!