Room by room · Canterbury, CT1
Worn stair carpet in Canterbury? We check nosings and gripper condition as part of every quote.
Choosing carpet for a staircase in Canterbury involves more decisions than a bedroom or living room floor, from waterfall against capped fitting to whether a runner or full-width covering suits the property better.
Upstairs bays above bay-fronted rooms in Canterbury houses often have a dip where the bay roof meets the wall, and that dip has to be levelled before carpet or LVT goes down.
Our own photographs, used to show construction detail and finish. They are illustrative rather than tied to a specific property.
Because Canterbury is a historic cathedral city with a large student population and busy commercial centre, the same room brief arrives from very different buildings — listed period homes and student lets among them — and each needs its own preparation plan.
Music rooms in detached Canterbury houses sometimes call for underlay chosen for sound deadening rather than comfort, since that particular room's flooring spec has to answer to the neighbours as much as the client.
Underlay for stairs differs from underlay used elsewhere in the house, and using the wrong grade is a common reason stair carpet feels unstable underfoot even when the carpet itself is good quality.
Postcode district CT1, Canterbury City Council.
See stair carpet colours and pile under your own stairwell lighting before ordering.
07702 737267Every tread is checked for secure gripper fixing and even tension before the job is signed off.
Where a runner is chosen, its width is agreed against the exposed timber margin either side of each tread.
Decorative stair rods are fitted over a runner where requested, though they are optional rather than structural.
It can. Homes with children or pets generally do better with a denser, heavier stair carpet than a lighter one chosen mainly for softness.
It is worth flagging a squeaking or loose tread before new carpet is fitted, since the carpet will hide the issue rather than resolve it once laid.
Yes, stairwells are often lit differently from a flat room, so colour and pile can appear noticeably different on the flight compared with how it looked on a small sample.
Door clearance should be checked beforehand, since added carpet and underlay height can catch on an existing door, and thresholds are usually finished with gripper or a bar depending on the adjoining floor.
We reach Canterbury via the A28, and cover the wider CT1 district as part of our normal round.
Choosing pile density and underlay grade correctly matters more on stairs in Canterbury than on any flat floor in the house.
See stair carpet colours and pile under your own stairwell lighting before ordering.