Carpet in Hanover, OH

Carpet construction trades against itself. Longer, finer fibers feel softer and mat sooner under traffic. Tighter, denser twists hold their appearance for years and never feel like the plush sample. Solution-dyed fibers shrug off spills and bleach, and they come in a narrower range of colors than the ones dyed afterwards.

None of that makes any of them wrong. It means the honest conversation is about which two properties matter in this room, because no carpet gives you all three. We would rather have that conversation with samples on your own floor than sell you the softest thing in the van and let the hallway settle the argument.

Before anything new goes down, the old floor comes out and the subfloor gets looked at. We check that it is clean, dry, flat and sound, and we tell you what it needs — leveling, a repair, a moisture concern — before we start rather than after. A carpet laid over a subfloor that moves will telegraph every joint and squeak in it.

Standard furniture moving and existing-floor removal are included on most projects. What we ask is that you clear the small, fragile and valuable things and empty drawers, shelves and storage before we arrive, because those are the items that get damaged when a room is being worked in.