Carpet in Manhattan, fitted to the rules of your building
Wall-to-wall carpet for Manhattan bedrooms and living rooms, hallway and stair runners, and the padding that keeps sound from the apartment below.
In Manhattan, carpet is often the floor a building asks for before it is the floor a person chooses.
Many co-op and rental leases in Manhattan require most of each room to be covered, and wall-to-wall carpet is the one floor that meets that rule without rugs to keep in place. It is also the quietest floor for the apartment below, which is why the rule exists at all.
We install carpet in co-ops, condos, rentals and townhouses across Manhattan: bedrooms, living rooms, halls and stairs. If you have already bought your carpet, we plan the installation around it.
The covering clause, and how carpet meets it
The clause in many leases says a share of each room, often 80 percent, must be covered with carpet or rugs, with kitchens, bathrooms and halls left out. Wall-to-wall carpet covers the whole room, so it meets the clause with nothing left to measure.
If you would rather have wood with rugs, that can meet it too, depending on how your building reads the rule. Check your lease or house rules, or ask your managing agent, before you choose.
Getting carpet into a Manhattan building
A roll of carpet is long and heavy, and it has to come through the lobby and up in the service elevator, or up the stairs of a walk-up. We plan the delivery with your building, book the elevator where there is one, and protect the walls and floors on the way in.
In a walk-up, we cut the carpet to manageable lengths before it goes up the stairs where the room allows, and plan the seams to fall where they will not be seen.
The pad and the neighbor below
The pad under the carpet does most of the work on sound. A dense pad deadens footsteps far more than a thin one and keeps the carpet from wearing flat in walkways. In a Manhattan apartment we lean toward the pad that helps most with sound, because that is usually why the carpet is going down.
What your carpet installation covers
Measuring
We measure the rooms and halls and plan the seams before the carpet is cut.
Building access
We book the elevator, protect the route in and work inside the building hours.
Pad for sound
We fit tack strip and the pad that does most for the unit below.
Stretched and finished
The carpet is power-stretched, trimmed and finished at every doorway.
A Manhattan carpet day
Arrive and protect
We sign in, book the elevator and protect the route to your door.
Old carpet out
The old carpet, pad and staples come up and go with us.
Pad and carpet down
Tack strip and pad go down, then the carpet is laid and stretched.
Ready to use
You can walk on it as soon as we finish. Most apartments are done in a day.
What moves the price of carpet in Manhattan
The carpet and pad you choose and the size of the rooms set most of the price. Stairs, halls and seams add to it, and so does access: a walk-up, a small elevator or a short building window all take time. We measure first and give you one estimate for everything.
Carpet questions from Manhattan
Does wall-to-wall carpet meet my lease's covering rule?
Yes. It covers the whole room, so it meets a clause that asks for most of each room to be covered. The exact rule is in your lease or house rules.
Can you carpet an apartment in a walk-up?
Yes. We carry the carpet up by hand, cut it to lengths that fit the stairs where we can, and plan the seams so they do not show.
Can you install carpet I bought myself?
Yes. Send the carpet and pad details and the room sizes, and we will check there is enough before we book the job.
How long does it take to install carpet?
Most rooms take a few hours and most apartments are done in a day. Stairs and halls take longer. You can use the room as soon as we finish.
Carpet for a co-op or condo? We will plan it.
Send the rooms and what your building sent you, and we will take it from there.