Carpet?

[Saulbadguy]

We are selling our home and need to recarpet the entire home. I'm estimating it is around 500 sq ft. How much should I expect to pay?

I want to keep it as cheap as possible.

 

[SarcasticDwarf]

Well how good of carpet do you want? The cheapest crap that will wear out on the new owners in less than five years?

 

[Saulbadguy]

Originally posted by: SarcasticDwarf
Well how good of carpet do you want? The cheapest crap that will wear out on the new owners in less than five years?

Yes. It's a vicious cycle.

 

[vi edit]

Dirt cheap carpet is around $1 a sq/ft if you hit up a remnant roll sale. Add in another $.40 or so a sq/ft for the pad, and then another $.70-$1.00 a sq/ft for installation.

It can be done for as cheap as ~$2.00 a sq/ft. So in this case you are looking at around $1,000.

But if you get something halfway decent you are looking more at $2,000.

The labor is the make or break part. Just depends on what you can get somebody in there for.