Carpet replacement

[C20]

I just got a quote from Winnebago to put new carpet in our 08 Horizon. They quoted me 7500 to 8000. Seems way high! I don't know anything about it, and wonder if a regular flooring shop could do it. I have a really good carpet guy that I've dealt with for years and wonder if he could do it, or if it's RV specialty stuff.

Thanks.

[77rollalong]

I wanted to get rid of the 40 year old shag carpet in ours as well, to hard just to sweep or vacuum. I picked up laminate flooring to replace it, was not that hard to lay down, more work involved removing the sofa, and kitchen table area and the bathroom i put down a vinyl flood similar to that of the rest of the rv

remove the toilet to put down the bathroom floor
still have to put the trim in though..

[erniee]

june is full try july or aug

[Bill_Satellite]

C20 wrote:
I emailed Ernies and he's booked until June, but he only does tile. I'll check my local carpet guy. I could remove the couch and dinette and drivers seat myself so that might make it so that a regular carpet company could do it.
Thanks everyone

The only thing that Ernie DOES NOT do is tile. He mostly installs engineered hardwood floors but he also does carpeting. It's worth the wait if you can be in his area in June. He did an excellent and detailed job of replacing our carpet as well as redoing the entry stairs with wood trim and rubber tread.

[C20]

I emailed Ernies and he's booked until June, but he only does tile. I'll check my local carpet guy. I could remove the couch and dinette and drivers seat myself so that might make it so that a regular carpet company could do it.
Thanks everyone

[Gottahaveit]

JFC if you don't mind...we are in N Cal as well..who did you go to ?

[JFC]

When we wanted the carpet replaced in our Scepter, we checked with the local repair facility that serviced the coach. They recommended the installer they used. Coach is forty feet with four slides. Tile in living room, kitchen and bath, so carpet in bedroom and two front slides. Installer also sent us to his recommended carpet retailer. We bought the carpet for $200 and installer picked it up. Installation was another $700 and took two days. That was four years ago and it still looks new. Check with local RV dealers and repair facilities to see who they recommend.

[erniee]

check out Ernie Ekberg's Flooring on Facebook

[DavidP]

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

[mlslcan]

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

[C20]

Ours is a 4 slide unit if that matters

[Monello]

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

[donn0128]

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

[William_Willard]

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

[Bill_Satellite]

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.