Our landing is 501cm and the roll is 5m, its a 100% polypropylene carpet, in general is it possible for the fitter to stretch it to reach or would I be better paying the extra to have a proper fit (apparently it would work out more expensive due to waste to do it so there's enough length).
There is no way that any modern carpet will comfortably stretch a centimeter, especially on the width, though some on here would disagree. Most carpets accept a few millimeters on the length and less on the width. In addition, the British standard code of practice for the manufacture of carpets says (if I am not mistaken or out of date) that manufacturers have a 1.25 width tolerance allowance on the production of their carpets meaning that a 5 meter wide carpet can come in substantially less than 5 meter wide.
Thanks for your reply, I guess it's better to play it safe then and just pay the extra to have it done right. I guess it costs more this way because the landing is 200 x 501 so we'd essentially loose 300 x 500 of the roll as both of the remaining rooms are wider than 300 in both directions.
Get some thicker skirting and a Brockway carpet and you will be fine...maybe lol Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
Ha, it will actually reach the wall, it's the extra 2-3cm into a doorway on the wall I'm short to reach the door bar.
By the thicker door plates, done that before myself. I remember I had to buy 3 identical carpet>carpet plates. There is ones you can buy that are over a cm thicker but all depends if you can live with it poking out from under the closed door... ....or just buy a 5.05 x 4.00 piece
I'll see if the shop will sell me a piece in the morning, if not, its the only door way that goes from carpet>tile as it's into the bathroom so doesn't matter too much if it doesn't match the other doors.
widths are hard to stretch, some carpets you can get away with it. sometimes i get carpets that stretch more on the width than they do on the length lol...but carpets very rarely come in 5m on the width,usually 498 or even 496 i see often.
Also, at least half a centimeter will be lost tucking into gripper at one end and into the door profile at the other
Heat seam? If you want to keep cost down and dont mind it potentially wearing prematurely, should be fine though I'd of thought
