Carpet Installation in South Dakota

Upstairs bedrooms, dens and family rooms are where many people still want something soft underfoot. Carpet keeps a room warmer to walk on in winter, softens footsteps on a second floor and gives children a comfortable place to sit and play.

We install wall to wall carpet with new pad, stretched with a power stretcher so it lies flat for years instead of rippling after the first summer. Seams are planned so they fall away from the main walking path and out of the light from the window.

Pad, stretch and seams

The pad under the carpet matters as much as the carpet. A firm, dense pad helps the carpet keep its shape and makes it feel solid instead of spongy. We fit new tack strip around the room where the old strip is worn, lay the pad with the seams taped and stapled, and then roll out the carpet.

Stretching is the step that decides how a carpet looks a year later. We hook it onto the tack strip on one wall and stretch it across the room with a power stretcher, then finish the edges with a knee kicker and tuck them neatly at the baseboard.

Old houses, sloped ceilings, odd corners

Many farmhouses have upstairs bedrooms under the roof, with sloped ceilings, dormers, closets under the eaves and doorways that are not quite square. We measure each room on the visit and plan the roll so the pile runs the same way through connected rooms and the seams stay in the closets or along the walls.

Where carpet meets a wood or tile floor, we set a metal or wood threshold so the edge stays tidy and nobody catches a toe.

Before carpet day

Clear small items and closet floors from the rooms. We move beds, dressers and other larger furniture as part of the job and set them back once the carpet is down. If there is a good wood floor under the old carpet, we will point it out, because sometimes refinishing it is the better choice.