steve g
Member
last week I was in prosource picking up some laminate floor, I asked my contact there has carpet went down in price any, she said no not at all. In case some of you hadn't been paying attention carpet had went though the roof price wise, especially nylon. in order to get a decent nylon carpet you would be looking at nearly $30/sq yd. I am talking material costs. back before the steep increase in oil, 30 bucks would get you one hell of a piece of carpet, infact back in '99 the carpet store I worked for the most expensive nylon carpet in the whole store was like $15, I am talking store costs here. apparently the mill reps she talked to blame the still high prices on benzene which is used to make carpet being in short supply. After doing some checking I found that benzene was trading in the $4.25 range back in the summer and is now down in the $1.50 range.
carpet mills better wake up, the laminate I picked up was a top of the line mannington that when I saw it in the house installed, they had to tell me it wasn't real wood, its that nice of stuff, it had 3 dimensional ruff distressed look to it. anyways my cost on the stuff was 3.28/ft which is 29.52/yd, these sort of products have to be really putting the heat on carpet, hell I may just put some in my office when I get my basement finished.
carpet mills better wake up, the laminate I picked up was a top of the line mannington that when I saw it in the house installed, they had to tell me it wasn't real wood, its that nice of stuff, it had 3 dimensional ruff distressed look to it. anyways my cost on the stuff was 3.28/ft which is 29.52/yd, these sort of products have to be really putting the heat on carpet, hell I may just put some in my office when I get my basement finished.