chris French wrote:
In message , The3rd
Earl Of Derby writes

mo wrote:

"Chris Bacon" wrote in message
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mo wrote:

Grippers - do I need them?


For fitted carpet, it's far better to use them, unless
the carpet is to be stuck down. They're cheap, you know.


Paying someone £25 to do it for me, It will prob take me ages to work
out exactly how to put the grippers in etc etc - he can prob do it in
under an hour, i will make a note to watch eactly what he does and
how for next time!


are you sure you're not a woman? and blond at that. :-)

The place where you bought the carpet would have supplied and fitted
carpet/underlay and grippers, for what you've laid out up to now.

Since we don't know what he has paid so far how can we judge. There is
no such thing as 'free fitting' or 'free grippers' etc. it's all in
the price somewhere.

Any time I've bought carpet, they've always offered to fit gripper rods
and underlay for no extra cost, as long as I bought them from the place
- they usually charge a lot more for the materials though, so I've
always ended up doing the gripper rods and underlay myself and just
getting them to fit the carpet (I might try fitting myself next time as
we're doing the small spare room, an ideal room to mess up on my first
attempt!)