Turning Stones to Treasure

Finally the day had come. Carpet day. No more walking on dirty yucky thin carpet, concrete and floorboards.
We found the carpet we liked months and months ago. We saw it at Home Depot. It’s by Shaw Carpets and called Peddle Path. It was brown and tan with tiny flecks of green. It wasn’t too light or too dark. It was perfect. We got a couple of small sample pieces and carried it around with us when we were out shopping to check how it went with our other choices. It also went well with our furniture going in those rooms.

When the time was nearing when we needed the carpet, we went to Home Depot to get the rooms measured. An outside company contracted by Home Depot does this and there is a $50 charge, which then comes off the price of the carpet.

Before someone came round Mr. Remodel had already taken his own measurements so he could compare them to Mr. Carpet Co.’s figures. So Mr. Measure came along and did a very quick measure. Well that’s probably all right because he does this all the time.

However, when Mr. Carpet Co. sent us the plan of the rooms and the carpet required, it was considerablely off compared with Mr. R’s numbers. Mr. Carpet Co thought we needed a lot more carpet than Mr. R did. The cost was an extra $500 and there was a lot of waste. And a lot of seams.

Mr. R firstly asked why they didn’t turn the carpet in bedroom two and run it the other way and have no seam rather than run it the way Carpet Co. wanted to with a seam a foot from the window? Well they conceded that point. On the carpet square footage, they said there was extra carpet because it could only run in one direction on the stair sections (I thought that the stairs would be carpeted with long one piece but each stair had a separate piece). Even so, they wanted to use much more carpet than Mr. R reckoned.
Mr. Remodel asked them for the measurements so he could see why his and their figure differed so much. They can’t do that they say because the measurements belonged to Home Depot. Mmmm but we paid for them? Okay, so we called Home Depot and got some story from them, which boiled down to not getting the measurements.

So what would you do? Throw away the $50 measurement fee and go elsewhere, or pay an extra $500?
We walked and went to LA Carpets in San Juan Capistrano.

Ben from LA Carpets came and measured and guess what? His figures agreed with Mr. Remodel’s. Plus, he said that with the thicker grade of carpet, it could be turned either way so we did not need all that extra carpet. (No one at Home Depot or Mr. CC asked us what grade of carpet so I don’t believe that was their excuse.) So we decided to go with Ben and scheduled the installation.

Here’s an interesting fact about buying carpet that you may not know. When we came to LA Carpets looking for the same carpet we had seen at HD, we could not find it under Pebble Path. This is because the same carpet is given different names according to which store it is sold at. I’m don’t know whether it is at the request of the retailer (making you think that the carpet is unavailable elsewhere) or is done by the carpet producer. But Ben was able to help us find it among his Shaw sample boards under the name Treasure.

Without further ado here it is.


Carpet pad is down with the carpet ready to go in the master bedroom.



We picked the thickest grade and it feels so good to walk on.


Looking good in bedroom three.


And in bedroom two.


Suddenly it is hard to remember how grotty it looked just moments before.



Happy feet, I’ve got those happy feet. Thank you LA Carpets.