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Carpet Installation
Since that time, the Certified Floorcovering Installers (CFI) organization developed a training program to ensure that carpet installers were properly trained and certified. These certified installers are located in most cities throughout the United States.
Long's Carpet can help you find a local installer through The CFI web site. This site enables consumers the ability to enter their zip code and the web site will return a list of properly trained, certified carpet installers in your area.
Why pay too much for carpet, pay local sales taxes, and then overpay for a local carpet installer?
Long's Carpet recommends that you visit the CFI Website, contact a local installer, and have this installer come to your home and measure for your new carpet installation. Once the carpet installer has measured your carpet, you can contact Long's Carpet with the exact amount of carpet that you need. Your new carpet will be shipped via common carrier to the local freight terminal and the carpet installer may pick up the carpet for you prior to installation.
If you have questions regarding carpet installation, we suggest you contact the Carpet and Rug Institute to obtain a copy of the CRI 105 Carpet Installation Standard.
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Most local carpet retailers earn a substantial
profit from carpet installation. Of the $5 to 7$ per yard that you pay
for carpet installation, the carpet installer receives roughly half.
In most cases, the carpet installer is not employed directly by the
retailer, and is considered a subcontractor. Many carpet
installers may work for numerous carpet retailers in your community.
Many of these local carpet installers are neither properly trained or
certified. Recently when the Carpet and Rug Institute (the
National Trade Association for the Carpet Industry), embarked on a plan
to certify carpet installers, each installer was given an open-book test
covering the CRI-105 Carpet Installation Standard. Many of these
of these installers had been installing carpet for more than 20 years.
More than 80% of the first installers who took this test failed the open
book test. It was soon learned that these installers had been
installing
carpet incorrectly for more than 20 years.