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Can anyone recommend a carpet shop which has a wide selection of runner carpets for stairs. We are looking for a pretty plain red runner, but the best we've had so far was a salesman who suggested buying a length of carpet and getting someone to sew the sides of it!!

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MGL
 
Franks Carpets in Dundalk did ours. Not the cheapest as you have to bind the sides. Nice though.
 
I always thought the correct way to carpet a stairs was to fold over the edges.
 
Have a look at [broken link removed]. Ring them and ask for Irish supplier. Gorgeous runners.
 
MGL said:
Can anyone recommend a carpet shop which has a wide selection of runner carpets for stairs. We are looking for a pretty plain red runner, but the best we've had so far was a salesman who suggested buying a length of carpet and getting someone to sew the sides of it!!
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When we carpet a room, we keep all the off cuts and do just that! It's ideal, we've two runners in the hall that tie in the carpet with the rest of down stairs, the perfect size. I wouldn't dismiss it.
 
The guy in the shop was right. some manufacturers do make runner carpets but not in a plain red mostly they are a heavy patterned axminister and are quite expensive. Wat you do is buy a piece big enough to fit the stairs then the fitter cuts them to the size you want and they are then bound with colour matching thread to stop fraying etc. Im a carpet fitter and this is how its done and its very effective and the binding is relatively inexpensive maybe a couple of euro for every foot so an average stairs with 13 steps should cost somewhere between 50 and 100 euro for binding on top ofthe price of the carpet.
 
any good carpet shop should be able to provide a binding facility. for stairs just buy a good 80 20 twist with good underlay and have it bound.
 
Myles Quirke in stillorgan does stair runners from ordinary carpet also has runners
 
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