Carpet
The bedroom carpet that has been wrinkled at the closet door for years because the original installer used a knee-kicker instead of a power stretcher. The rental-turnover stretch where the property manager needs the unit ready in a week and the carpet pulled, the staple subfloor cleaned, and the new pad and carpet down by Friday. The thirty-year-old wall-to-wall in a master bedroom that has worn through at the doorway and is now scheduled for a swap to engineered hardwood. The straight-run staircase where the owner has picked a wool runner from a Pental sample book and needs it tacked in with a French cap. Carpet is the soft-surface trade for residential Seattle homes — installation, removal and disposal, carpet-to-hard-surface conversion, and stair-runner installation. Four service families, every one running the carpet trade end to end with a power stretcher per the Carpet and Rug Institute CRI 105 installation standard, real pad spec (8-pound 7/16-inch rebond on most installs, higher-density pad on stairs and high-traffic rooms), hot-melt heat-bonded seams, and tackless-strip perimeters fastened to wood subfloors with carpet nails or to concrete with hardened masonry nails. From $400 for a single-room carpet pull and disposal up to $12,000 for a whole-floor carpet-to-engineered-hardwood conversion.
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Carpet Pricing
Final pricing depends on the room or floor square footage, the carpet and pad spec (owner-supplied or Handis-sourced), the substrate condition, and whether transitions to hard-surface flooring are in scope. Each child page lists detailed pricing for that service family. Carpet and pad are line-itemed separately from labor on every quote so the material cost is clear. Request a free estimate for an accurate quote.
Tell us the room, the carpet spec, and the timeline — we will quote the project with carpet and pad line-itemed separately from labor.
Why Seattle Homeowners Book Handis for Carpet
The single most common failed carpet install we are asked to fix is the bedroom or family room where the original installer used a knee-kicker to stretch the carpet across the long dimension instead of a power stretcher. The knee-kicker is a tool meant for the perimeter and the small spaces; the power stretcher is the tool meant for any room dimension over about 10 feet. A knee-kicker install reads as wrinkles inside the first year — a ripple across the carpet at the closet door, a buckle in the middle of the floor under a piece of furniture, a stretch loss at the threshold to the hallway. The fix is a re-stretch on a power stretcher, sometimes a full pull and re-install if the carpet has been wrinkled long enough that the backing has set. Handis runs a power stretcher on every install over 8 feet in any dimension. We follow the Carpet and Rug Institute CRI 105 installation standard because it is the difference between a carpet that holds flat for ten years and one that ripples in eighteen months.
Estimate
Tell us the rooms (bedrooms, family room, basement, stairs), rough square footage per room, the carpet and pad spec if you have one, whether you are doing a fresh install or a removal-and-conversion, and any known issues (existing carpet wrinkled, subfloor damage, pet stain history). Send phone photos if you can. We send a clear estimate with carpet, pad, and labor line-itemed separately.
What Our Customers Say
Recent carpet reviews from verified Seattle-area customers.
Full master bedroom carpet install. The previous carpet had wrinkled inside the first year of the original install. Handis ran a power stretcher across the long dimension this time and the carpet has been dead flat for two years. They used 8-pound rebond pad and heat-bonded the one seam. The bedroom feels like a different room.
Carpet pull and disposal across the whole upstairs ahead of a hardwood install we did with a different floor specialist. Handis pulled the carpet, the pad, every tackless strip, and every staple from the subfloor in one Handis day. The subfloor was vacuumed clean by the time they left. The hardwood crew started the next morning and said the substrate was the cleanest they had seen.
Carpet-to-engineered-hardwood conversion across the main floor — bedrooms, halls, living room, dining room. Handis pulled the carpet, did the deflection and flatness check, self-leveled a couple of low spots, installed the engineered hardwood, did the transition trim at the kitchen tile, reset the baseboards. Five working days, one party running the whole project.
Stair runner install on a straight-run staircase between the first and second floors. Owner-supplied wool runner from a Pental sample book. Handis tacked it with tackless strip on each tread, pad underneath, French cap style with each tread and riser pre-cut. The runner is dead flat at every step. Cleanest stair runner install I have seen in a residential home.
Finished basement carpet install in a 700 square foot great room. Three seams across the field, all heat-bonded with a seam iron — you cannot see any of them. Stretched with a power stretcher across the long dimension. Higher-density 10-pound pad because the basement gets used hard. A year and a half later it still looks like the day they finished.
Frequently Asked Questions
Common questions about Handis residential carpet services — install, removal, conversion, stair runners, pricing, scheduling.