We recently began our research in to the purchase of new carpets for our home. We visited several stores including the usual options, Carpetright who ALWAYS have a sale on and the quality seems a bit average. We went to John Lewis in Kingston Upon Thames who's carpets and service seemed great but when you add it all up, including fitting and underlay it worked out to be extremely expensive, then by chance we stumbled upon CMS Downs in Woking.
CMS Downs, as the last reviewer said are a large independent retailer who I think have 3 or 4 stores. This makes them big enough to be competetive on price when compared to the big companies, and considerably cheaper than the small, independent single shop carpet seller.
The overall service from CMS Downs was very good and the carpet fitters were helpful, polite and did a perfect job of fitting.
In terms of value for money, we got the same weight and quality of carpet as the one we saw in John Lewis. John Lewis price was £33.00 per square meter, plus underlay, plus fitting..... The CMS Downs price was £33.00 INCLUDING PREMIUM UNDERLAY AND FITTING!!! Saving us over a thousand pounds on the John Lewis price.
Living in Surrey, we found carpet stores really quite limited. Having done a great deal of research we found CMS Downs to be the best option by far. We would highly recommend.
Mr & Mrs Ashmore
Haslemere, Surrey read more