<p>Hi all… sometime in the next year i’m looking to re-carpet two rooms in my house (2 bedrooms). The living room and hallway are hard wood. I love the look of the hardwood but these two rooms are right above the furnace area so the carpet is better at quieting the sound. I went out to home depot to check out some carpets and the stuff I liked was like 3.19 per square foot. Is this a good price? I picked out carpet previously from home depot and I swore it was only 1 something, but still good quality… I read somewhere that it’s better to save money on the carpet and get a better padding underneath it. Any truth to this? </p>
<p>I’m wondering if I should be getting carpet sooner rather then later as they have a free carpet pad upgrade offer going on right now. I have the cash in savings that I could borrow from, but was ideally going to be using my next year bonus check to cover the carpet. I guess I could take it from savings and just pay myself back, if the carpet pad upgrade is a good offer?</p>
<p>I’d first check with some independent carpet stores with good local reputations. Home Depot contracts out its installation to various local firms and you never know who you’ll get or if they’re any good. A small store will also have the expertise to help you choose what’s best for your purposes, while whoever helps you at Home Depot could have been hired yesterday or been working in electrical that morning. Note that carpet is typically priced by the square yard, not the square foot–I think pricing by the square foot is just intended to make it harder to comparison shop and make the prices seem cheaper. I’m sure you’re too savvy a consumer to be taken in, but I just don’t like dealing with retailers that operate that way.</p>
<p>A free carpet upgrade is a very common sale. That same sale or something very similar will be in place next year so you can safely wait. In the meanwhile, I’d strongly advise you to shop around and go to many stores. Educate yourself about this purchase which is something you can’t do by just going to Home Depot. Also, if you google ‘carpet installation by Home Depot’, you’ll learn about how Home Depot handles this and you may change your mind about using them. </p>
<p>Some carpet places do note the price in square feet and I believe they do this to make their prices look cheaper than the places that show the square yard price. You must do the math!</p>
<p>I’m old enough that much of my carpet shopping was done when stores charged by the square yard. It sounds funny to hear the 1/9th square foot prices.</p>
<p>Please keep in mind that there are thousands kinds of carpets. Unless you have the same brand same model of carpets you are comparing apples and oranges from two different stores. I have done some shopping, but the price varies a LOT from one vendor to the other. Home Depot seems has the lowest price on the low end, that was I looking for. I paid 45c/sf for carpet and 25c/sf for padding, about few hundred for labor. But don’t look at my price because I was furnishing a rental unit.</p>
<p>We bought carpet from Home Depot and had them install it in D’s bedroom about 6 years ago. As I recall, there was a promo of some sort that made it a very good deal. It is an excellent quality carpet and the installation was great. We had everything out of her room and pulled up the old carpet and disposed of it. Actually, maybe they even took the old carpet, I don’t remember, but I know we removed it which was very easy. The guys who installed were on time, very polite, cleaned up after themselves and did a great job. We also had other flooring bought and installed through HD in the rest of the house. Again, we did the floor prep and just had them do the install. Again, very nice man, on time, neat and was done very quickly. We were very pleased.</p>
<p>I know that HD subs it out and it can vary on who you get. But I have also heard that the subs try to do a good job and satisfy the customer so they can keep getting work from HD. We are having quartz countertops installed through HD and I have my fingers crossed that that will work out as well as the flooring. I had visited 3 local independent kitchen places as well as HD and Lowe’s and I was hoping one of them would make a service pitch why I should use them over the big box store, but they didn’t.</p>
<p>I wasn’t happy with how my bedroom carpet installed, which was done by a HD group. So, for next room, I focussed on a Mohawk sample (something common), and priced at several stores. I ended up with a Karaston carpet, which I bought from tiny shop (a referral from a friend), and it was installed in days. I did the same years later when doing wood floors. </p>
<p>If you already have beautiful wood floors, why not get area rugs that practically cover the floor? You could find standard sizes, or have something made to fit an odd-shaped room.</p>
<p>I like carpet under my feet when I wake up. And the carpet and the pad really help quiet the noise from downstairs. I’ve got stream heat so it’s quite loud in comparison to other heats. the furnace is right below between my office and my master bedroom. My bedroom actually has hardwood, a later of cork, then the carpet and its padding. Its much quieter in there then in my office which doesn’t have the cork.</p>
<p>My second floor bedrooms are hardwood and my living room and hallway are as well. I just want carpet in these two.</p>
<p>I’ll be taking care of moving the furniture and ripping out the old carpet.</p>