Does these prices seem high?

[KevinD]

Been a while since I've installed a "so called" luxury carpet.
My own carpets are pushing 20 years old and all I have ever bought since were carpets for my own rental units and if I push $20 bucks a yard installed on them I'm bitching.

Here is the carpet: Karastan Silken Eloquence (SmartStrand Silk BCF Triexta made with Dupont Sorona)

40 yards
Best pad .89 s.f. = $320.40 ($8.01 s.y.)
Install .79 s.f. = $284.40 ($7.11 s.y.)
Carpet 11.99 s.f. = $4316.40 ( ($107.91 s.y.)
Tax $393.70

Total $ 4710.10 = $ 117.75 s.y.

If this is new carpet pricing we all need to be getting a buck a foot to clean.
I like how all the retailers have gone from square yard pricing to square feet.

 

[Nate The Great]

Carpet is sold by the Square Yard... It's a bait and switch/ smoke and mirrors game to hook you in... You see the cheap price in SF but carpet is only sold in SY... All in the presentation... The box stores have their own specs of carpet made to sell which on the lower end is pure crap...

For us, we can sell a job with builders grade 28oz carpet, 7 pound pad and installed for $30sy... I personally wouldn't put that in my place, but to each their own... Go with a better pad makes any carpet feel better and last much longer....

 

[hogjowl]

You're going to hate Smart Strand.
Don't listen to Satan.

 

[KevinD]

You're going to hate Smart Strand.

It is not for me. It is for a friend and his wife cannot be swayed from her decision.
I was just shocked when they showed me the quote sheet.

 

[Zee]

That carpet is a certified piece of junk...

 

[Able 1]

The silk crap is better then the normal smartstrand crap, but both crap for what you pay.. Go with nylon!

Last year I had a inspector call me (because I told a customer it seems to be wearing fast for just one year), he went into that he had 30 years experience bla,bla,bla.. I told him he should be ashamed of himself. Lol. He did say he is happy that he is retiring with the crapy polyester the mills were putting out. More to the story that was the short version for the Marty types out there..

 

[hogjowl]

There's only one of me around here THANK YOU VERY MUCH!

 

[Old Coastie]

There's only one of me around here THANK YOU VERY MUCH!

Good Lord be thanked.