Carpet replacement

Ridiculous!
Go to your nearest marina/boat dealer and find a recommended carpet installer who knows how to deal with the small twists/turns/trims you'll find in a MH....worked for me.

That quote is indeed absurd. I put vinyl plank in mine, but needed to recarpet the Drivers area, doghouse, and a few areas around the bed in the rear bedroom. I bought a commercial grade level loop carpet and hired a guy who does a lot of RV work. The whole thing was under $400, $175 for 12x12' piece of material, and $150 cash, for 3-4 hours of his time.

Get hold of Ernie in TX. I just had my carpet replaced for about $2000 in a 40' no slide coach. He's the best but you have to go to him. How bad can that be? TX is pretty awesome.

I`ve done several carpet jobs in different types of RV`s -- Labor cost depends on slide-out`s & such - Lot of time involved removing bed, couches & seats, then adjusting slides -- Always, something will come up that takes more time -- My labor usually runs about $800.00 -- Length of coach don`t matter that much -- Customer picks out carpet -- Bill Willard

Just had our fiver done. 400 labor. We found a rem cheap, so a couple hundred for material including 18 feet of edge binding.

I tried to swap my carpet out for some sort of flooring. Techs told me that it would gum up the slide function. I think they didn't want to deal with it. I'm still holding out that I can find someone in the future that can come up with a solution to make me happy. Carpet seems to get dirty and it's difficult to clean. Flooring would just require a quick sweep to get it clean. YMMV

Ours is a 4 slide unit if that matters

I have seen post on various forums where the local carpet person would do the install. In fact there was a post last week on one of the other forums where the person had his replaced for about 1/4 of your price. He had to remove all the furniture (coach, table, captain chairs, etc) for them to do the work. When I had the carpet replaced in my house I had to move all the furniture to the garage, although it might be harder to move stuff out the small RV door and you also have unbolt it all the requirement is the same. Also there were places (like at cabinets) where they had to cut the carpet instead of removing the items that were installed after the carpet. I am not sure what all the price includes from the factory but they might be including the labor to remove / reinstall everything.

From the pictures I think he had only one slide in the area where they replaced the carpet. They did the sides of the entry way and the step well cover as well.

We are not ready to replace the carpet in ours yet. In my last RV I went with Allure flooring and it worked out ok. However my wife would have preferred carpet. So on this one when I change it out I will be checking out the local carper places and the newer "pet proof" carpets.

Mike

The quote was meant to tell you they (Winnebago) do not want to do the work.

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