Carpet · Kansas City metro
Carpet Installation in the Kansas City Metro, from a Single Room to a Full Staircase
Most people find what they want in our selection; if you have something particular in mind, we can usually get it.Installed by our own crew, one room or the whole house.
Overland Park · Olathe · Shawnee · Leawood · Mission Hills
Before you decide
What the Estimate Covers
- ✓Which carpet and pad suit the rooms you have in mind
- ✓If stairs are part of the job, how they will be done: set into the hardwood, laid over it, or carpet alone
- ✓Where the carpet meets hardwood, tile, or other carpet, and how it will be handled
- ✓A written number that covers carpet, pad, tear-out, and installation, and a straight answer about what might be under the old carpet
Talk it through with Jason (913) 839-1609
Choosing Carpet
A wall of samples. Where do you start?
You have stood in front of it. Hundreds of squares, most of them some shade of beige, and the one in your hand looks and feels like the one next to it and costs more. Turn it over and the tag lists a face weight and a twist count, which tells you what the mill put into it. It does not tell you how it will look after five years in the rooms you use most, or whether the pad it needs is the one the store will sell you with it.
The people who know that are the ones who pull up old carpet before they lay new. Every tear-out shows what held up and what did not, and where. We have done both ends of that job for a long time, and it is why the tag is our homework and not yours. Bring the room and the way you live in it. The tag gives you numbers, and we can tell you how it will wear.
How that afternoon goes at a big box store, at an online seller, and with a flooring company is on our why us page.
That's the carpet. Now, the installation.
Where Carpet Meets Everything Else
Every carpet job has at least one transition.
It would be a rare carpet job that never met another floor. A hardwood hall at the doorway, tile at the kitchen, the hearth in front of the fireplace, the first stair. Each of those meetings is called a transition, and even a one-room job has one. It is also the part of the install where the difference between crews shows, because two floors have to end at the same line and the carpet has to look like it belongs there.
How that edge gets finished is a choice. There are three ways it is usually done.
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The metal strip
An aluminum bar fastened across the joint, with the carpet caught under one lip and the wood under the other. It is the most common answer, it holds up, and in a utility room or at a garage door it is the right one. In a living room it is visible from the doorway.
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The hidden edge
The carpet is tucked down over a strip fixed to the floor, so the strip never shows and the carpet simply arrives at the wood or the tile. If the two floors do not sit level, a wood profile does the stepping down, a T-molding when they match and a reducer when the carpet sits lower. When it is done right you notice nothing.
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Flush
Here the carpet sits level with the hardwood, and the seam between them is a hairline. This is the detail behind our recessed stair installs, where carpet runs down the center of each tread with finished wood showing on either side. It is worth asking for by name.
Where carpet meets carpet, the same question comes up. A seam that disappears, when both sides are the same carpet. A low divider bar, when they are not. Or a strip of hardwood laid between them, which turns a joint into a feature. Each of those is a decision. None of them should be a default.
Every edge on the job gets decided with you before install day.
Stairs
The hardest carpet job in any home.
A staircase is a transition at every step.
A dozen times or more in a single flight, the carpet has to stop at a line and start again. The carpet is wrapped around the nosing by hand, and the pad under it is one that holds up on a stair, which is not the same pad that feels best in a bedroom. Because we sell and install, we know which is which.
There are three ways to carpet a stair, and the right one depends on what is under the old carpet and what you want to see when it is done.
- Carpet set into the hardwood. The recessed install. Carpet runs down the center of each tread, flush with finished wood on either side, and the seam between carpet and wood is a hairline. Both materials go in on the same visit, by the same crew.
- Carpet over the hardwood. A runner down a finished wood stair, with wood showing at the edges. The stair stays a wood stair; the runner takes the wear and can be replaced on its own years later.
- Carpet alone. Tread and riser fully covered, the stair most houses in the metro have. Wrapped tight over the nosing or dropped straight from one tread to the next, whichever look you prefer.
Two of these, a runner over hardwood and a fully carpeted stair, are on real jobs in Our Work.
With the old carpet off and the treads bare, squeaks and loose treads get fixed before anything new goes down. It is the one time a stair's frame is in plain view.
If your project has no stairs, this is still the standard your rooms get. A crew that can set carpet flush into a hardwood tread has no trouble with a doorway.
the fastest and best remodel we’ve had done
ALL DIMENSIONS did an amazing job replacing all of our carpet on the main level of our home and our stairs. They removed our entry tile too. Jason had his craftsmen in and done so fast it was unbelievable! It feels like a whole new home with Portercraft 5-inch-wide, white oak, hardwood floors and luxurious Kane plush carpet on the stairs. We highly recommend All Dimensions, the fastest and best remodel we’ve had done!
Carpet, Answered
Plain answers on estimates, pricing, stairs, and what to expect.
Do you charge for a consultation or in-home estimate?
No. The first conversation is a phone call, and a realistic range is available by phone. An in-home visit follows when the project is ready for one. Neither the call nor the visit costs you anything.
How do you handle pricing?
Before any work begins, the whole job goes in writing: carpet, pad, tear-out, installation, and any prep the job calls for. The price you agree to is the price you pay for the work described. The one thing no estimate can price is what is under the old carpet, and that has its own answer below.
Should I use carpet or hardwood in my bedroom?
It depends on what you want from the room. Carpet is warmer and quieter underfoot and usually costs less to put in. Hardwood is easier to keep clean and will outlast any carpet. We put in both, so we can lay out the tradeoffs for your house rather than steer you toward one.
Why does stair carpeting cost more than room carpeting?
A stair is a dozen small installations instead of one. The carpet is cut to each step, fitted around the nosing by hand, and fastened in a space where nothing is quite square. The old carpet comes off the same way, one step at a time, and squeaks and loose treads get fixed while the treads are bare. A room of the same square footage is a fraction of the labor.
How long does carpet last?
Well chosen and well installed, carpet lasts 10 to 15 years in rooms with ordinary traffic. Halls and stairs show wear sooner. Density and the pad under it decide which end of that range you land on.
How do I know when it is time to replace carpet?
The clearest signs are matting that does not recover after cleaning, an odor that deep cleaning does not remove, and fraying at seams or edges. A less visible sign is the pad giving out underneath. If the carpet feels different underfoot in certain spots, the pad may have failed even though the surface looks fine.
What is a carpet transition, and do I need one?
A transition is the place where carpet stops and another floor starts: a doorway to hardwood, the edge of kitchen tile, the hearth, the top of a stair. Every job has one somewhere. How it is finished is a choice among a metal strip, a hidden edge with the strip tucked out of sight, and carpet set flush with the wood, which on a stair is called a recessed or inlaid install.
What if there is a problem under the old carpet?
Nobody can know for certain what is under a floor until the old one comes out. Jason can make an educated guess once he has seen the room, from the age of the house and how the floor feels underfoot, and he will tell you what he expects. The chance of a surprise is still there on every job. The question is who you want to deal with when it happens. If the carpet came from one place and the crew from another, the surprise is between them. With All Dimensions, the people who sold you the carpet are the ones standing on the subfloor, and the fix is handled by the same crew on the same job.
You're Working With Jason.
"I founded All Dimensions Flooring with a single goal: to combine the selection of a major retailer with the personal accountability of a craftsman. You aren't handed off to a rotating cast of clerks. You're hiring my 25-year reputation."
All Dimensions installs carpet with its own crew, the same one that lays our hardwood. Jason advises on the carpet and the pad, and he has laid floors himself. Because we sell hardwood as well as carpet, he has no reason to steer you toward carpet or away from it, and the rooms and stairs get talked through at your house.
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What Homeowners Wrote
Start With a Realistic Number
Call Jason or use the form below. Tell us which rooms and whether stairs are part of it, and come away with a realistic range by phone. The written estimate follows, with a recommendation on carpet and pad and a word on what to expect under the old carpet. There is no consultation fee.