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Yardage Chart and learn to measure your own
carpet.
In my E-Book, I show you
how to measure for carpet, how to measure for stairs, there are special yardage
charts so you can easily convert your room measurements into square yards or
square feet!
In-Home Measuring Scams
You stand to lose hundreds if your home is improperly measured. Most carpet
salespeople are not very good at measuring. It takes years to learn to measure
like a pro. I know, because I have installed carpet for 30 years.
Is the salesperson
coming over to measure your home tonight
to measure how much carpet you need? Great! Whatever you do, don't sign on the dotted
line until you verify the measurements! If you don't, you may be the next victim
of the "mis-measuring" scam!
Who should you trust to measure your home?
How do you determine how much carpet
and pad you need? If you trust the carpet salesperson to determine your measurements you could easily
over-pay. In fact, it is very common for consumers to be charged hundreds extra for the
job.
Consider this:
Many two-bedroom homes require about 100
yards of carpet. If you were to choose carpet, pad and installation that added
up to $30 per yard ($3.33 per foot), for 100 yards, your total price would be $3000.00.
Now, if the carpet salesperson measures your home incorrectly (or
deliberately over-measures) and tells you that you need 120 yards of carpet,
your total price would be $3600.00, a difference of $600!
(and if it is a deliberate over-measure, they may just pocket the extra
$600
and only order the amount of carpet that you actually need!)
Anyone could be over-measured by
20 yards of carpet or more and probably never be aware of it. This is a serious problem in the
industry, and I go into depth about carpet measuring in my ebook.....you'll learn
the smart ways to get
accurate measuring for your home before you select the carpet you want.
You stand to lose hundreds if your home is improperly measured. Order my ebook
and save. Knowledge is power.
Don't
be fooled into thinking that measuring carpet yourself is the only smart way to
save money on your carpet purchase. Measuring carpet can be very difficult and
is easy to do incorrectly.
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