There is no one price, & no one quality, could be junk for about a buck or premium stuff for $6-10 or more a foot.
Here's a good rule of thumb, assuming you shop for value and don't over pay.
Expect 5 years of good service for every $1 you spend on carpet, (not pad or labor) per foot.
$1 buck/ sq /ft= 5 years of good service
$2 buck Sq/ Ft= 10 years & so on.
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400 square foot piece of carpet price 400 square foot piece of carpet price
You need a price for the carpet, per square foot, to find the answer.
No. Many stores have went to square foot pricing because it is easier to visualize a square foot and also the square foot price is smaller. Carpet mills still require purchase orders in square yards and is still the standard for which carpet is sold. Home Depot, the leading carpet seller in America prices there carpets in both square yard pricing and square foot.
The cost of carpet for a 800 square foot basement depends on the price of the carpet. It can cost upwards of 1.50 per square foot.
12 foot by 20 foot = 240 square foot. Divide by 9 to bring ito to square yards = 26.6666 (round this to say 26.67). Multiply by the price (4.92) = 131.216. You haven't said what the price units are (£ or $ or whatever). But the sum is the same whatever the price units are.
The cost largely depends on the quality of the carpet you want. The lower end costs $3.70 per square foot, while the higher end carpet costs about $5.49 per square foot.
There is a huge range of prices and qualities. You can expect 1.50 per square foot on the lower side and around 6.00 per square foot on the higher side. The average selling price of carpet mostly purchased is around 3.00 per square foot.
This is like asking how much does a car or a house cost. The average price for decent quality residential carpet is around $2.50 per square foot.
There are 9 square feet in a square yard. This means to find price per square foot given price per square yard, division by 9 is in order. $11.69 divided by 9 = $1.298888... or about $1.30 per square foot.
The store that has the better price is store"B". By store "A" charging $5.95 per square foot their price comes out to $53.55 per square yard. There are 9 square feet in a square yard. By store "A" advertising the price by square foot instead of square yard, they are hoping that people will just look at the price {$5.95 vs 38.95} and think that store "A" is a better deal. It is just an advertising gimmic and it is a gimmic because everyone knows that carpeting is measured and sold by square yard.
There are 2 standard ways that carpet is sold, either square yard or square foot. Depending where you are shopping, both are used still. The carpet mills require orders be placed in square yards. Carpet stores began pricing their product in square foot because it was a smaller number and a more familiar size. Home Depot and some smaller stores still offer the price in square yards.