Buying Carpet Remnants

[lupi]

Anyone have experience buying carpet remnants?

Looking to buy a single piece to lay down as a pseudo area rug for a 12?25 foot den. I took up the previous carpet after having a cat go bad and a new puppy doing some chewing. I plan on redoing the entire house once the market corrects a little more to sell and buy a new one, but don't want to do so yet.

Where would be the best place to look; carpet store, furniture store, home wharehouse place?

 

[mugs]

What was under the previous carpet? Old hardwood, or the subfloor?

 

[leftyman]

Lowes, Home Depot seem to have them cheap, carpet stores have them too but sometimes seem to be almost expensive as ordering off the roll.

around here we have a store call Mr. Seconds that deal in closeouts, end of run products and you can get remnants dirt cheap.

 

[ivan2]

some Indian store have very cheap area rugs.

 

[lupi]

The den is on the bottom floor and sits right on the slab.

 

[lupi]

we've got some place called ollies near us and they have in their current ad remnant sections for $.61/foot, how does that price compare?

I measured the room to get actual readings and it came to 13.4*19.6. The longest width they have though is only 12. I'm just laying this down without padding, and thinking without anything to hold it I should probably just go with having about 9 inches bare on either side than being fancy and trying to lay 2 sections down.

 

[Yzzim]

All depends on the quality of the carpet. Look for a good nylon if you want something that lasts.

I was at Lowes a couple weeks ago and saw a 10x12 remnant for $75.