A friend of mine took advantage of some ridiculously cheap installation deal at one of the big box stores. I think it was $35 for installation. Obviously, this didn't include removal of carpet or moving furniture. So she and her husband ordered TWO seperate installations. They moved all their furniture to one area of the house and removed the and tge carpet from the empty area. The store then came and installed the cleared out area. During the following days, they moved all the furniture to the newly-carpeted area, pulled up the remaining carpet and awaited the second installation. I think they ended up with about 2000 sq. ft. of carpet installed for the cost of the carpet plus, dumping fees and $70.