How to Re-Carpet the Cube Farm

I'm in the flooring business- an accident in itself-, and that is how I totally, on accident, ended up in a morgue.  I had an appointment to go see someone at a university about a floor, in a lab.  And all of a sudden… there I was counting body bags on tables. Oh yeah....med school...the lab...  Silly me.

It is an adventure to never quite know where I will end up.  It’s how I roll, really.  But, your task of taking on a re-carpeting project as a customer does not need to be one of uncertainty.

If you have “volunteered” to be in charge of the office re-carpeting project, you might have some basic questions, such as 1) “Should I use broadloom, or tile?” Or, 2) “How much is it going to cost to move all the furniture, computers, and wiring for our re-carpeting project?”  And, “What is broadloom?”

Here’s the quick answers:

1)

While the industry --quite confusingly, I tell you, talks about carpet tile-- they are really referring to anything square, such as vinyl tile, ceramic tile, or porcelain tile, as “tile."  So, when we are talking about carpet tile, we mean carpet squares.  Broadloom refers to carpet as a roll good, that comes in one long piece.  Broadloom generally costs less, and is best used when budget is of the utmost importance, and when the space is empty, or has furniture that is easy to move, with plenty of adjoining space to move it to during the project.

Carpet squares cost more due to the cost of the additional rubber or vinyl backing that is added for dimensional stability- that is, its “lay flattishness” quality. But, it is easy to replace a single carpet tile in the wake of that coworker who is always spilling their coffee. And, they are a must when re-carpeting the cube farm, which leads us to point #2:

2)

If you have cubicles, you might be thinking “Whoa. Replacing the carpet is going to cost us plenty, but how much is it going to cost to move all the computer wires and furniture?” And, then, somebody has to crawl around under the desks and hook all that equipment back up, and you are a little unsure you’re going to get it right. Because sometimes your keyboard won't do anything, but your neighbor's computer is going just crazy.

At this point, levitating furniture and carpet squares come in handy.  With industry lift equipment, we will simply lift your cubes up in the air as little as an inch, pull up the old carpet, and sneak those new carpet squares right under the cubes.

Voila!  New carpet, and you don’t have to move the furniture.  Or the wires.

Now you know.

We can help with your Kansas City area carpet installation project.  

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