Carpet Recs?

Mella&T · August 2011

We're strongly considering putting carpet down in our house. The hardwoods are uber-squeaky (which we didn't care about pre-baby) plus it'll be nice for DD when she's mobile. I know carpet won't completely take away the squeak but we're hoping it'd help.

Any recommendations for carpet companies to explore? Are those in-home places any good (Empire, Luna)? Home Depot? Bill's Carpet?

gracie2762 · August 2011

My SIL used Empire for her carpet recently and my Mom used Empire for her hardwood floors about a year ago. Both were very happy with the outcome.

madladybride · August 2011

We used Lowe's for a room in our basement and were happy with the results.

summer08bride · August 2011

We had a horrible experience with Empire and if you look on the BBB website, so did a lot of other people. I'm glad Gracie's family had a good experience. not only did they put holes in the wall, they didn't put down the correct padding and had to come out and put it down again.

We used Lowe's to put down carpet and they were great.

mrs. remy · August 2011

If I remember correctly, after buying our house, we got a quote from Empire to do our basement and it was astronomical. It didn't matter because we ended up putting laminate down ourselves, but just throwing that out there. I know a lot of people have had good luck with Lowes.

Ragdolls · August 2011

We used Next Day for DS's room and were very happy. I asked for recs awhile back when we were thinking about redoing the carpet in the playroom and a number of people recommended Bill's Carpet Fair, too.

Megcheer2 · August 2011

We used Luna and were very pleased. The guy came to our house and obviously wanted a sake, so we were able to negotiate him down to around half of his original quote. And we are happy with the results.