Installing Carpeting
After you have browsed through our large variety of carpet selection, and decided what type of carpet you want (patterned carpet, textured carpet, saxony carpet, cut pile plush carpet, frieze carpet, california shag carpet, berber carpet, commercial carpet, or even a nice runner for your stairway) there are some things you will need to know to get ready for the big day: Installation of your new carpet!
Our installers will come to your house on the day scheduled. For all the rooms that are to have your new carpet installed, we ask that you go through bookcases, tables, dressers, desks, and other furniture and make sure that books, magazines, and small breakable items are put away. Items should be moved off of the floor, and all furniture should be moveable. This is also a good time to detach any furniture that may be attached to the wall and disconnect all electronics. This is to make it easier for our installers to move the furniture around.
Our carpet installers will then move the furniture out of the way and tear out the old flooring, to make room for the new carpeting. Tack strips and carpet padding will be put down or replaced if needed, and then the installers will begin to lay your new carpet. If you are removing your old carpet yourself please leave all tack strips in place and our professional carpet installers will assess whether the existing tack strips have to be moved or not.
The carpet will have to be cut into pieces to fit the layout of your house. Our professional installers will layout your new carpet for optimal carpet seam placement. Then carpet will be laid out in each room, with extra care to make sure that any patterns match up, and that edges of carpet seams are ready to be glued or seamed together.
The carpet is then stretched and trimmed, and adhered to the tack strips. Any seams are glued together, and worked over with special tools so that they are as invisible as possible (Not all carpet and carpet seams will allow for invisible carpet seam installation, please ask one of our flooring professionals for more information). Our installers have a broad knowledge and many years of experience in various techniques and tricks that improve the final installed product.
Furniture is replaced, and your new carpet (and the smell of that fresh new floor!) is in your house. Carpet is one of the easiest, least expensive, and quickest ways to make the most difference in the look of your home!
See how easy it is? Call today (410-318-8888) or visit our showroom!
