Average carpet sqf in a RV?

Fla904 wrote:
Suprisingly a lot of the people who called about the job have done RV's in the past. But as far as pricing goes the actual materiel are very cheap (1-2.00 per sq yard) now I'm debating on what to instal. Carpet, vinyl, and he recommended "floating flooring" which is a wood looting that doesn't require glue or anything like that. If I went with carpet I'm thinking at either black or a tanish color. Welcome to suggestions. I feel carpet is much more "cozy" and comfortable than hard flooring. Thanks for all the help here, you all have been a lot of help.

Since we are older, we get up in the middle of the night and are barefooted. The carpet feels so much better than the fiberglass on the floor in the bathroom. We laid a runner over the carpet in the main walkway. When it gets dusty and tracked on, out it goes in the driveway for a good vacuuming. If it ever wears out, it will get tossed and replaced with a new runner. :)

tatest wrote:
To the question about area. Assuming current generation of E-Series cutaway, the cab length is 7 2/3 feet. So 8 feet wide x 31 - 7 2/3 long = 186 sq ft floor maximum floor space.

But you have cabinets, bathroom, shower, space under beds taking away from that. The kitchen may not be carpeted. In my 29 2/3 foot C (22 feet of house) only slightly more than half of the 176 sq ft is carpeted, and that would include the carpet installed under the sofa and dinette. So 100 sq ft probably.

Prices are a different issue. The last time I bought carpet (about 10 years ago) I paid about $4 per sq ft. You can get something sold as carpet for as little as $0.50, it can go up to $8 or higher, but $2.50 is an average for what people have lately been paying for recarpeting at home.

Installation for a home can run about $0.25 to $0.50 per square foot. But that usually involves areas on the order of 800 to 2000 sq ft, with some fairly large rooms and relatively less work around the edges. There can be a lot more labor in installing 100 sq ft in a RV than there is in 100 sq ft in a small room in a house, when you consider how much edge has to be worked around installed fixtures, or that those fixtures need to be removed and replaced to remove old and install new flooring.

If someone is quoting $250-300, get that as a firm price, before the guy figures out just how much work is involved to install in a motorhome.

Suprisingly a lot of the people who called about the job have done RV's in the past. But as far as pricing goes the actual materiel are very cheap (1-2.00 per sq yard) now I'm debating on what to instal. Carpet, vinyl, and he recommended "floating flooring" which is a wood looting that doesn't require glue or anything like that. If I went with carpet I'm thinking at either black or a tanish color. Welcome to suggestions. I feel carpet is much more "cozy" and comfortable than hard flooring. Thanks for all the help here, you all have been a lot of help.

To the question about area. Assuming current generation of E-Series cutaway, the cab length is 7 2/3 feet. So 8 feet wide x 31 - 7 2/3 long = 186 sq ft floor maximum floor space.

But you have cabinets, bathroom, shower, space under beds taking away from that. The kitchen may not be carpeted. In my 29 2/3 foot C (22 feet of house) only slightly more than half of the 176 sq ft is carpeted, and that would include the carpet installed under the sofa and dinette. So 100 sq ft probably.

Prices are a different issue. The last time I bought carpet (about 10 years ago) I paid about $4 per sq ft. You can get something sold as carpet for as little as $0.50, it can go up to $8 or higher, but $2.50 is an average for what people have lately been paying for recarpeting at home.

Installation for a home can run about $0.25 to $0.50 per square foot. But that usually involves areas on the order of 800 to 2000 sq ft, with some fairly large rooms and relatively less work around the edges. There can be a lot more labor in installing 100 sq ft in a RV than there is in 100 sq ft in a small room in a house, when you consider how much edge has to be worked around installed fixtures, or that those fixtures need to be removed and replaced to remove old and install new flooring.

If someone is quoting $250-300, get that as a firm price, before the guy figures out just how much work is involved to install in a motorhome.

I recently recarpeted the dining room slide and replaced the carpet and vinyl in kitchen/ living room with Luxury Vinyl click and lock wood grain plank in our fifthwheel. Stainmaster carpet was 27.99 per yard, $269.00 tile was 7 cases at $49.00 per box, $343.00. Binding for 14 ft @ $1.50 per ft. Pad was supplied by SIL who still bangs in rag. No labor I'm retired floor coverer.
If the OP's quote was for labor only I'd say about right.

Old-Biscuit wrote:
5vr Living room carpet........8' X 8' (164 sq. ft) plus 2 slides 3'X 8' (24 sq. ft) and 3' X 6' (18 sq. ft.) ----- 206 Sq.Ft TOTAL plus binding on edges for slides

$1500 carpet/padding/labor (I had already removed old carpet/padding and the 6000 staples factory installers used) :S

206 square feet = about 22 square yards. Most is around $10 - $15 per square yard? Or did the prices go way up in the past few years?

I know that the last time I bought carpet, they sold it by the liner foot, and it was 13 feet wide. So with the dimensions above, it would take 8 feet long X 13 feet, and the 8' wide, and 1 of the 3' wide can be cut out of the first 8 liner feet, while it will take 3 more liner feet to finish your job.

With a RV typically using some long but only 3 feet wide sections of carpet, they might have reminates that width, and able to do the job for a lower cost.

Last time I put carpet in my motorhome, I was able to buy 4' long X 13' wide blue indoor/outdoor carpet from Home Depot, and it installed over the old stuff with staples. It did not have insulation below the factory carpet, or this stuff. I think the cost was close to $1 per square foot.

Fred.

jfkmk wrote:

Fla904 wrote:

But my main question is how many sqf is a average 31ft class c? I have no slides..

Why not just measure it?

Have not picked it up yet. Has been getting a new roof installed since I purchased it in the beginning of the month.

Fla904 wrote:
I mean he's not just some solo random guy, it's a actual business here is their website http://eliteflooringoftallahassee.com - Clicky

But my main question is how many sqf is a average 31ft class c? I have no slides..

I don't see anything wrong with your estimate. Like has been stated, you could rough measure it. The carpet installer only needs to look at it.

I had a 25' 1977 Coachman President Class A recarpeted for less than $150. I first carefully removed the old "shag" carpet and laid it in the garage stall. Then we bought a remnent carpet at the local furniture store. The installer laid the old carpet on the new carpet and rough cut out the new. We carried it into the RV and about an hour later, he was done.

Fla904 wrote:

But my main question is how many sqf is a average 31ft class c? I have no slides..

Why not just measure it?

coolmom42 wrote:
No, just NO. You can't buy any kind of decent carpet for that price, much less install it with a good pad and proper stretching.

Now it's possible he is an installer who has a scrap of carpet & pad that is costing him nothing, because it has already been paid for by someone else's job.
And the charge is for the labor.
Ask to see the carpet, ask him about his installation methods, what pad, etc.

I mean he's not just some solo random guy, it's a actual business here is their website http://eliteflooringoftallahassee.com

But my main question is how many sqf is a average 31ft class c? I have no slides..

5vr Living room carpet........8' X 8' (164 sq. ft) plus 2 slides 3'X 8' (24 sq. ft) and 3' X 6' (18 sq. ft.) ----- 206 Sq.Ft TOTAL plus binding on edges for slides

$1500 carpet/padding/labor (I had already removed old carpet/padding and the 6000 staples factory installers used) :S