Things to consider when buying a carpet online
Online Shopping is very popular these days as people trawl the web to find the best price. We have several people a week phone up saying they have a carpet which they purchased online but need a fitter but can’t find one. They are then disappointed when we tell them our fitters only fit carpets we supply.
Before purchasing flooring online you need to understand how they can offer carpets cheaper than a retailer. It is very simple, they take your money and drop the carpet at your door and from then on they do not want to know you.
When buying a carpet online, you need to be confident that you can project manage all aspects involved in the fitting of your flooring. You have to be able to get the roll of carpet in, out of the rain as it is a door step or garage delivery service only. The carpet will arrive with a pole in the middle to stop it from bending and it may be too heavy to lift manually. If you have ordered the wrong size that is down to you.
Once you have the carpet, if you have not already found a fitter then you have real problems because most of the best fitters are under contract to a store. We would therefore suggest you try and find a fitter beforehand.
If you have a lot of rooms to fit and the carpet arrives in a large roll, you need to be sure you have space to open it up in order to be cut down into individual room sizes. If you have not got the space to do this, the fitter will hack off the rooms and this can use up more carpet than you have ordered and paid for.
Llandow Carpet Studio can easily price match an online price on any Cormar Carpet if you do not want the extra service we provide as a retail outlet. We can do this because we have no responsibility for the sale other than to deliver the carpet to your door. The entire onus to get it right is on you from start to finish.
Buying your carpet from Llandow Carpet Studio
When you buy a carpet from Llandow Carpet Studio:
- We help you select the right carpet to meet your aspirations.
- We will measure up but at the same time look for any potential problems that will affect good fitting.
- Once you have selected the carpet we will take just a 50% deposit and provide you with a fitting date. You will not be expected to pay the balance until the day before fitting.
- Your carpet will be kept on a rack in our warehouse until the day of fitting.
- On the morning of fitting it will be taken off the rack on our fork lift truck with a boom pole and cut up in the room sizes to make it easy to handle.
- It is then loaded on to our fitters vans without any poles so it is flexible and less likely to do any damage your walls, door frames or paintwork when taken in to the room to be fitted.
- All our fitters work is guaranteed by us to be of a good standard for 2 years.
You may end up paying a little more but in the end you get a quality service designed to give us satisfied clients that will recommend us to their friends and return when they next need flooring.
There is a wise John Ruskin saying in business:
“It’s unwise to pay too much, but it’s worse to pay too little. When you pay too much, you lose a little money – that’s all. When you pay too little, you sometimes lose everything, because the thing you bought was incapable of doing the thing it was bought to do. The common law of business balance prohibits paying a little and getting a lot – it can’t be done. If you deal with the lowest bidder, it is well to add something for the risk you run, and if you do that you will have enough to pay for something better.”
We appreciate that we need to be competitive and have carried out a price comparison with other stores in South Wales and normally found our prices are very competitive not only on the carpets but also the accessories that go with them, such as underlay and gripper.
We are happy to quote for Online Services as well as our Full Carpet BuyingServices.