We repair carpets rather than replace them. The usual jobs are ripples and bubbles that need restretching, burns, bleach marks and pet damage patched from an offcut, lifted seams and loose door bars and thresholds. A restretch of one room is £90 to £160 and a patch repair is £90 to £140.
A rippled carpet is not worn out. It has relaxed off the gripper, usually because it was fitted without being power stretched or because heavy furniture has been dragged across it. Restretching pulls it back onto the gripper and trims the surplus, and the room looks like it was fitted yesterday. It is the single most satisfying job in this trade and people are always surprised it is not a replacement.
Burns, bleach marks and pet damage are patched. We cut a plug out of an offcut, or from inside a wardrobe or under the sofa where nobody looks, and fit it with the pile running the same way. Done properly you have to be told where it is to find it.
If you kept the offcuts from the original fit, dig them out before we come. It makes the repair invisible rather than merely close.
Carpet repair prices
Prices are per visit and include the fitter, the tools and the tidy up.
| Job | Price | Typical time |
|---|---|---|
| Restretch one room (remove ripples) | £90 to £160 | 1 to 2 hrs |
| Restretch hallway, stairs and landing | £160 to £280 | 2 to 3 hrs |
| Patch repair from an offcut | £90 to £140 | 1 hr |
| Patch repair, offcut supplied by us | £110 to £180 | 1 hr |
| Refix a lifted seam | £80 to £130 | 1 hr |
| Replace or refit a door bar | £35 to £60 | 20 mins |
| Refix carpet on a stair tread | £45 to £85 per tread | 30 mins |
| Replace worn gripper rod | £8 to £14 per metre | n/a |
| Refit carpet after floor or pipe work | £90 to £170 | 1 to 2 hrs |
| Free advice from a photo | £0 | n/a |
Minimum charge £90. Underlay, gripper and door bars are charged at cost if new material is needed.
Compare that to a new carpet. A mid-range wool-mix carpet fitted in an average London bedroom is £450 to £900 with underlay. A restretch that makes the same carpet look new is under £160.
What we repair
How a carpet repair works
Landlords and letting agents, this is one of the cheapest ways to turn a tired flat around between tenancies. A restretch and two patches often costs less than a tenth of recarpeting, and it photographs far better on a listing.
When a repair is not the answer
- Carpet worn through to the backing across a whole traffic route cannot be patched invisibly. We will tell you.
- Widespread water damage usually takes the underlay with it, and the underlay is what you can smell.
- Very old foam-backed carpet tends to crumble when stretched. We check before we start.
- No offcut and an unusual pattern means a patch will be visible. We will show you where before we cut anything.
Carpet repairs across London
We cover every London postcode. Send a photo of the damage and we will tell you if it can be repaired.