Carpet Removal Cost Calculator

This estimates a carpet tear-out rather than a new floor. Give it the room size or the total square footage, say whether there is padding and how the carpet is fixed down, and it works out the area, the weight of carpet and pad going to the tip, the tonnage a landfill charges on and the linear feet of tack strip to pull. Add your quoted labour rate, tipping fee and haul-away charge and it prices the job and gives the cost per square foot. Every rate is yours to enter, because removal is quoted anywhere from a quarter of a dollar to over a dollar a square foot and a figure picked for you would usually be wrong.

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Every box below and every figure in the answer follows this. Nothing is converted behind your back.
Taken off the perimeter at 3 ft, which is 0.91 m, each, because tack strip does not run across a doorway.
Stairs are torn out and quoted per step, not by the yard, so they are counted separately from the floor area.
Residential rebond is usually 7/16 in, which is 0.4375 in or 11.1 mm. Commercial pad runs thinner. Leave it at zero and that figure is used.
The number on the pad label, in pounds per cubic foot. Rebond is sold as 5, 6, 8 or 10 lb. This is a density, not the weight of your pad. Leave it at zero for 8 lb.
Whole-carpet weight, not face weight, in ounces per square yard. If you only know the face weight, add about half as much again for the backings and latex. Leave it at zero for 70 oz.
Whatever you have been quoted, in the unit you picked above. Glued-down carpet costs more than stretched-in because the adhesive has to come up too.
What the tip charges by weight. Leave at zero if disposal is a flat fee or is included in the labour.
A skip, a dumpster, or a per-load charge for taking it away.
Most removal quotes assume the room is empty.
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Units
Every box below and every figure in the answer follows this. Nothing is converted behind your back.
Only needed for the tack strip line. Leave at zero and that line is left out rather than guessed, because a perimeter cannot be worked out from an area.
Stairs are torn out and quoted per step, not by the yard, so they are counted separately from the floor area.
Residential rebond is usually 7/16 in, which is 0.4375 in or 11.1 mm. Commercial pad runs thinner. Leave it at zero and that figure is used.
The number on the pad label, in pounds per cubic foot. Rebond is sold as 5, 6, 8 or 10 lb. This is a density, not the weight of your pad. Leave it at zero for 8 lb.
Whole-carpet weight, not face weight, in ounces per square yard. If you only know the face weight, add about half as much again for the backings and latex. Leave it at zero for 70 oz.
Whatever you have been quoted, in the unit you picked above. Glued-down carpet costs more than stretched-in because the adhesive has to come up too.
What the tip charges by weight. Leave at zero if disposal is a flat fee or is included in the labour.
A skip, a dumpster, or a per-load charge for taking it away.
Most removal quotes assume the room is empty.
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