Shopping for Frieze carpet. My head is swimming.
We are getting ready to put new carpet and pad in our new home that we haven't closed on yet. I have spent many hours reading on the web and must say that carpet ratings, grading, etc. is a bit of mystical science it appears. I am having three different local stores measure today so a lot will depend on that but i have looked at a wide array of frieze samples and am getting conflicting info. I understand that i should be concerned with fiber, density, face weight and twist count. But haven't found ALL of those items on a single sample in ANY of the stores. Many samples have NONE of that info but rather a cheesy 5 star rating etc. Also prices have been all over the place: Store A: Recommended going with some product that you can use bleach on to clean. Price was $2.50 per ft. on 40 oz and $3.50 for 70 oz. Also had to buy pad at 40 to 70 cents per ft. Installation is $99 not counting tear out or stairs. Store B: Found a Shaw sample that had a rating of 3.5. Cost was $2.86 per ft. INSTALLED and PAD INCLUDED. Lady said they are using it in all of the more expensive custom homes being built in town. ( prices $250,000 +) She also suggested we go look at some of them. Store C: Didn't really find a sample there but they are measuring for us, so info is limited on them. Lowes Home Improvement Sales guy there was less than exciting. Prices were good and they throw in a cheap pad. Haven't ruled them out but won't use and installer i can't lay eyeballs on first. I too am researching new carpet for certain areas in my home and am feeling overwhelmed. If you don't mind me asking, where are you located? I had Lowes install frieze carpet carpet in my home. I don't remember the mfg. The carpet is nice but the installation is lousy. I can see every seam in carpet. Lowes says its the installer's responsibility to fix. Installer says it's normal and will go away over time, It's been a year and the seams are just as visible. He also scratched my new tile floor with his tool box and denied it also. I won't use or recommend using installers from any big box store. I believe these installers can't make it on there own so they contract with the big box stores and the stores use them because they are cheap. Another thing they don't tell you ahead of time is if you use a vacuum with a beater bar it will fray the carpet. Had to buy a new vacuum also and I can tell you it didn't come from Lowes.
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