Carpetright Ireland closing ??

Story I read last week said Irish stores not yet affected

They lost almost £80m last year. They haven't had money for quite a while.

I'm just surprised that they lasted so long as they were exceptionally expensive and the stores were dreadfully drab.

Edit - All carpetright stores in Ireland have closed.

A staff member in Naas has confirmed this.

Tapi carpets gave a list of the 54 store they are taking over. None were in Ireland (north or south)

Yes. Carpetright also sold lino which has also collapsed in popularity; and laminate which is still going but mostly as retrofit.

Most new houses have hard flooring (tiles or engineered wood, not laminate) downstairs, and in upstairs home offices, playrooms etc; tiles in kitchen/bathrooms and carpets only in bedrooms; if at all.

By comparison in the 80s my parents had lino in the kitchen and big bathroom, and carpet everywhere else including, hideously, in the en suite and understairs toilet.

The hall and stairs carpet, and the kitchen lino would wear like crazy and be replaced quite frequently. There was a carpet shop in the town, which was maybe a fifth of the size of today; because there was much more demand. There isn't one now.

Every building in the country still needs floors !

There is very few stand alone carpet shops left, most now do smooth flooring as well, wood, tile and LVT. The main problem with Carpetright was the cost of their products, customers tend not to fall for gimmicky never ending "sales" anymore, and are a lot more savvy than they were years ago.

Established named and people would know that its flooring in general. Right Price Tiles also sell laminate (and bathroom suites!)

Considering they had 7 stores in Ireland, the total lack of news coverage of the closing and seemingly zero affected customers, tells how poorly they were performing.

They were awfull to deal with would not even supply an off cut sample as in a few cms to take home which was common practice with any other company Ive ever dealt with!

Well done sir, well done.👏

Currys and tile places always seemed to be at that

They sting you on the tv brackets etc

Part of the business model with them

I tried to order carpets off them before - I ended up going with another provider. I imagine if my experience is typical then I'm not surprised they've shut up shop.

Halfords also have P (voluntary equivalent of our N) plates for sale, and UK car stickers.

TK Maxx repeatedly getting in stuff with UK or English flags on them is another one.

And Kingfisher (B&Q/Screwfix) selling UK metric plumbing, at least B&Q also sells Irish size. Its now introduced so much UK metric stuff in to the system that you can never quite be sure what has been used.

Actually amazed we don't get TeamGB olympics related promotions here, or England football.

Very. Basically, the UK went metric, and we didn't. There is also a difference between measuring the inside and outside of the pipe

Using UK 15mm external diameter pipe with our half inch (14.7mm external, as the 12.7mm half inch is the inside of the pipe) fittings can break them, vice-versa and they can leak.

If you buy stuff in Screwfix, it will all be UK metric. In B&Q and Homebase, they usually have them side by side. Woodies now also sells UK metric but its clearly marked - they sort of have to, as there are people who have fitted out entire houses using it bought in Screwfix or similar who need to get replacements/addons!

The Hep2o plastic plumbing system has Irish size 1/2 fittings for a fraction of their full range, and as far as I know doesn't have them for the other three sizes they do in the UK; these have grey end caps instead of white which makes it easy to notice at least.

You can get straight connectors that are UK one side, Irish the other - possibly even elbow connectors and T-s with it actually. I had to, out of desperation in terms of opening hours, get a circulation pump with UK 22mm fittings to connect to 3/4inch pipe and got the connectors in Woodies for this.

Yeah, although if any DIYer has done a job in your house before your ownership, you could have some UK stuff you don't know about!