Our carpets were replaced Wednesday. It took two installers about 6.5 hours to completely remove the old carpets and install the new ones. In total we had about 800 square feet of carpets replaced, which was all the carpet in the house save the ‘fireplace room’ downstairs.
The old carpets were worn in the heavily trafficed area’s, and were a bit too deep pile for our liking. They also had 20 or 30 years of use in them:
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Tearing out the old carpets revealed a disgusting amount of very fine, silty dirt beneath them. Once that was vacuumed up, the hardwood floors underneath were in pristine condition:
The last shot above shows the stairs. My guess, based on appearances, is that initially the stairs were left as hardwood and only the upstairs was carpeted (with a blue carpet; traces remained). And then at some point the orange carpet was installed over the stairs as well.
In the middle shot above, mildew is visible on the piece of padding thrown across the padding still on the floor. The staircase shot above shows the new padding. The new product is mildew resistant, and apparently such technology wasn’t available back when the old carpets were installed (estimated to be about 20-25 years ago).
The total cost was quite expensive, but we had a good feeling about the company we chose. The installers (who averaged about my age) were professional and friendly and – I’m glad to say – worked with care and finesse. They did an especially good job with the detailing on and around the staircase.
And here are some shots of the finished product. Note that we hadn’t finished reorganizing everything in these images:
And yes Bernard, that is a Morning Musume calendar visible through the door at the end of the hall in the last shot 🙂
The new carpet looks very good, it’s much better than the old colour. It’s brightened up the place.
Looks great. Looking forward to seeing it soon. We should do the same – and lots more !!