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re: Do you think $1,800 is a fair price to rip carpet out of 3 bedrooms?
Posted on 8/17/25 at 8:58 pm to LSUballs
Posted on 8/17/25 at 8:58 pm to LSUballs
I’ve been dealing with contractors a lot lately. I’ll give you an example I have. Floors in a 1300 square foot home on concrete slab. Install only, I tear out the old. LVP flooring. One guy wants $6 a square foot. Another wants $2.75, which is apparently the fair price median. Last guy who does a great job is $1.75. The $6 guy was incredulous of the three. Couldn’t believe people could do it so cheap. Contractors are all over the place dude.
This post was edited on 8/17/25 at 9:00 pm
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Posted on 8/17/25 at 9:01 pm to diat150
Yep, you and one helper can do it 2 hours....
Posted on 8/18/25 at 7:50 am to LSUballs
my 60 year old mother in law did this job herself in her 1900 sf house. about 70% of the floor was carpet. she has no DIY skills.
im not telling you how to spend your money, but i'd imagine if you had a couple highschool kids at your disposal you could pay $300 ish each you could get the same quality of work done while saving $1200
im not telling you how to spend your money, but i'd imagine if you had a couple highschool kids at your disposal you could pay $300 ish each you could get the same quality of work done while saving $1200
This post was edited on 8/18/25 at 7:54 am
Posted on 8/18/25 at 10:02 am to LSUballs
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2 rooms are like 12'x12' and the other about 15'x15'. Take up carpet, tack strips and haul off. Seems kinda high to me..
I did this in my house a year ago and it took me at most 3 hours. The hardest part was getting the tack strips off and that was oddly satisfying.
Posted on 8/18/25 at 1:54 pm to BeerMoney
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The $6 guy was incredulous of the three. Couldn’t believe people could do it so cheap. Contractors are all over the place dude.
and probably has more work than he can handle
Posted on 8/18/25 at 5:22 pm to nolaks
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and probably has more work than he can handle
This is the part that most people don't understand. For someone that does this type of work for a living, it is not about how much it costs - it's about how much they can make doing whatever other work they already have on their schedule and if they can make that same amount doing another job. The guys that are doing it cheap don't have anything on their schedule. Doesn't mean that they will do a bad job, just that for a lot of people - their time spent doing a job has to be equal or greater to whatever they can make on another job. That equals a higher price for someone that has a full backlog and a much lower price for someone that has a mostly empty backlog.
Posted on 8/18/25 at 7:48 pm to LSUballs
$1,800 just to rip it out?
Man, give your kids a couple box cutters and tell them to go to work.
Man, give your kids a couple box cutters and tell them to go to work.
Posted on 8/18/25 at 11:22 pm to LSUballs
absolutely give me the address and we can do it for 1500
Posted on 8/19/25 at 1:29 am to Turnblad85
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Moving furniture sets a hired person up for an insurance claim if the even scratch something.
We bought a oven/stove from Lowe's. Dudes came to install it and haul away the old one. There was a rock or something under the old one that put a decent gouge in the floor when they pulled it out. By decent I mean it was like 1.5 feet long and like 6-7 pieces of paper deep. I could've fixed it with a 20 dollar furniture/wood touch up kit but they told us to get a quote on fixing it. Which we did but they all said they'd have to replace it to match it. So it was like 3500. Since we had to replace basically the entire first floor. After like 8 months they ended up giving us the reimbursement on the quote so we got back twice as much as the oven cost in the first place. We used it to pay off the credit card debt we had at the time and I fixed the scratch with the touch up kit. Definitely didn't hurt my opinion of Lowes even though it was unnecessary.
To the OP. yes 1800 seems ridiculously high. We just got a quote to replace carpet in 3 bedrooms (total sq feet of 460 or so). They quoted us a total of 774 for all the labor. 136 for carpet removal. 247 for moving furniture. and the remaining 391 for installation. And this is an established and well respected business that I have worked with before.
Posted on 8/19/25 at 7:58 am to LSUballs
This is one of those do it yourself jobs. Can't really mess it up and if you break a molding here and there, they were probably going to be replaced anyway. Save yourself the 2 grand.
Posted on 8/19/25 at 11:20 am to LSUballs
Dude that’s 2 hours work tops. Get after it
Posted on 8/20/25 at 10:16 am to LSUballs
If you're willing to pay $1800, I'll come do it for $1500.
Posted on 8/20/25 at 9:24 pm to LSUballs
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Do you think $1,800 is a fair price to rip carpet out of 3 bedrooms?
Why would you pay someone to do that?
Posted on 8/22/25 at 5:28 am to LSUballs
Could be done in one day by yourself. Do you typically make $1,800/day?
Posted on 8/22/25 at 8:44 am to LSUballs
Shop around...that is way too high!
Posted on 8/22/25 at 3:22 pm to mikie421
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Move furniture to o one side of room. Cut carpet down the middle and remove 1/2, move stuff to the now carpet free section and repeat.
This. Don't screw with doorways and furniture.
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