Re-stretching carpet

[Walrus Gumboot]

Installers around here charge about $3.50 per yard for installing, plus pad, plus tack strip, etc.
I'm thinking about $2.50 per yd for re-stretching. Does that sound about right?
This price would not include moving furniture.

 

[Lee Stockwell]

more

more work

more liability

more skill involved

MORE

 

[Walrus Gumboot]

More money.
Thanks Lee.
I've got the skills, just want to pass them on to my son and make sure we're charging enough for the service.
I started working with an installer when I was 14 years old. Damn, that was 45 years ago. (I'm not as young as I look - lol)

 

[hogjowl]

Like Lee, I say more
There’s a lack of people willing to do it

 

[Nomad74]

Installers around here charge about $3.50 per yard for installing, plus pad, plus tack strip, etc.
I'm thinking about $2.50 per yd for re-stretching. Does that sound about right?
This price would not include moving furniture.

Way too much. All you are doing is restretching. You're not cutting the carpet to fit, installing trim, installing new pad. I charge $90 a room to restretch.

 

[Fat Mike]

Way too much. All you are doing is restretching. You're not cutting the carpet to fit, installing trim, installing new pad. I charge $90 a room to restretch.

$2.5/yd is cheap a 12x12 would be like $40

depending your area i guess. your minimum should be way higher than that imo.

 

[Dolly Llama]

$2.5/yd is cheap a 12x12 would be like $40

Way too much.
I charge $90 a room to restretch

..L.T.A.

 

[Fat Mike]

..L.T.A.

a 12x12 carpet is

..L.T.A.

there's 16 yards in a 12x12 carpet so imo $2.50 is super cheap to re stretch

 

[Newman]

I charge $150 Minimum for first room, $100 for any other areas. Reseaming is strongly discouraged.

Big bubbles, no troubles.

Can not compare to an install. Higher risk to repair the laziness of others.

 

[Fat Mike]

I charge $150 Minimum for first room, $100 for any other areas. Reseaming is strongly discouraged.

Big bubbles, no troubles.

Can not compare to an install. Higher risk to repair the laziness of others.

plus being able too figure out why it failed. sometimes laziness but not always. i've found water damage and actual current water leaks, termites that rip tacks to swiss cheese or customer fault(being away from home all summer without AC on) not everywhere but huge difference in the desert

 

[Cleanworks]

plus being able too figure out why it failed. sometimes laziness but not always. i've found water damage and actual current water leaks, termites that rip tacks to swiss cheese or customer fault(being away from home all summer without AC on) not everywhere but huge difference in the desert

95% of the time, not being power stretched in the first place.

 

[Walrus Gumboot]

..L.T.A.

Too funny.

 

[SamIam]

..L.T.A.

Captain obvious

 

[SamIam]

I charge $150 Minimum for first room, $100 for any other areas. Reseaming is strongly discouraged.

Big bubbles, no troubles.

Can not compare to an install. Higher risk to repair the laziness of others.

I try not to open seams if at all possible, but sometimes in halls with multiple rooms connected you have to.

 

[Lee Stockwell]

Way too much. All you are doing is restretching. You're not cutting the carpet to fit, installing trim, installing new pad. I charge $90 a room to restretch.

Sometimes you worry me Damon.

 

[hogjowl]

Yeah, he’s definitely an idiot

 

[Trip Moses]

I charge $75 a room for empty rooms. $150 if I have to move furniture.

 

[hogjowl]

And you are too

 

[Nomad74]

Sometimes you worry me Damon.

Well, I sleep good. I’m probably too cheap on some services.

 

[Dolly Llama]

a 12x12 carpet is


there's 16 yards in a 12x12 carpet so imo $2.50 is super cheap to re stretch

I got that, Mike
My hED scratcher was at Damon’s reply

“$2.50 i way too hi”


But gets $5 bukz a SY on a bed room





..L.T.A.

 

[Nomad74]

I got that, Mike
My hED scratcher was at Damon’s reply

“$2.50 i way too hi”


But gets $5 bukz a SY on a bed room



..L.T.A.

I still think thats too high. 140 sqft bedroom needs a stretch. $350 to charge to stretch that one room seems like robbery. I’m happy if I get $90 for flopping down my power stretcher. If i ned to reseam, i add on $50.

 

[Charlie Lyman]

I charge $95 per room. Must be empty. I've done over 150 rooms this year already. Stretching leads to big dollar jobs.

 

[Walrus Gumboot]

I still think thats too high. 140 sqft bedroom needs a stretch. $350 to charge to stretch that one room seems like robbery. I’m happy if I get $90 for flopping down my power stretcher. If i ned to reseam, i add on $50.

Damon, you keep confusing sq. yds with sq. ft.

 

[Walrus Gumboot]

I charge $95 per room. Must be empty. I've done over 150 rooms this year already. Stretching leads to big dollar jobs.

Sounds very reasonable. Glad I posted this thread. I've learned a lot, and reaffirmed a few things I already knew.

 

[Nomad74]

Damon, you keep confusing sq. yds with sq. ft.

Well poops. There’s that reading comprehension thing. I guess we can all agree that $2.50 per sqft is high then. Lol.

 

[Walrus Gumboot]

lol. Yes!

 

[Fat Mike]

I still think thats too high. 140 sqft bedroom needs a stretch. $350 to charge to stretch that one room seems like robbery. I’m happy if I get $90 for flopping down my power stretcher. If i ned to reseam, i add on $50.

$125/area sometimes ill drop to $100 if i have a lot plus furniture

 

[Lee Stockwell]

Price should not be the critical issue.

The competition is a new floor.

 

[Dolly Llama]

I still think thats too high. 140 sqft bedroom needs a stretch. $350 to charge to stretch that one room seems like robbery.

is it reading or math you're deficient in??

at $90 per room, you're at $5.60 sq yrd
$2.50 sq yrd, which you said is "way too much"....is forty bukz


FRR

..L.T.A.

 

[Nomad74]

is it reading or math you're deficient in??

at $90 per room, you're at $5.60 sq yrd
$2.50 sq yrd, which you said is "way too much"....is forty bukz


FRR

..L.T.A.

I only understand measurements in Baconators.