I Need an estimate to re-carpet 3 bedrooms and a living room. Mid-quaility carpet....?

Question

I might be buying a foreclosure home that needs new carpet. I have called for estimates but it seems no one wants to come out to the home and/or give me a general quote over the phone of the cost for new carpet/installation. They say they wont go to the house since it is a foreclosure and I dont own it, which is understandable. But how hard is it to do a general quote over the phone??

Anywaz, I would like to use a mid-quality carpet. I dont need the best but def. dont want the economy stuff. 2 bedrooms are 11x10 (110 sq ft each) 1 bedroom is 11x10 (121 sq ft) and the living room is 17x16 (272 sq ft). Any idea on a general cost to do all 4 rooms. Carpet is already ripped up if that matters. Any help would be great. Thanks

Answer 1

Make a floor plan and take it to a carpet place.

That might help. Most companies can do that over the phone estimates are very unreliable.

Answer 2

i figured $1680 and includes pad and might exclude labor.

Answer 3

well, if you go to Home depot or Lowes, mid range carpet will cost about 3 dollars a sf.  

So you have roughly 500 sf....so this will be 1500 bucks plus the cost of installation which right now at those stores is between 99 and 199 for total install....which includes basic padding.

So about 17-1800 bucks with tax is what you are looking at.   They have some stuff as low as 1.60 a sf or so....so you would then be around a grand.  but it would be cheap material.

Good luck to you, hope it works out.