How many carpet seams are necessary for a 1404 sq foot home with 4 rooms (kitchen/dining, Laundry ,2 bathrooms) not carpeted? How many if any seams should be visible? Are 20+ carpet seams normal? All rooms are square.
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Can you provide pics?
Carpet comes in usually 12, sometimes 15 foot rolls, which can be cut to arbitrary lengths.
Here is one pic of just one area the red dots are to show just the seams if u zoom in u will see.. but I have seams every 1ft to every 3 ft and the carpet in a few areas looks to be a different color completely. I will compress and post a couple more.
It looks like perhaps they were cutting a little bit to size, and then trying to re-use the scraps? Possibly they were carpet *remnants* that occur after cutting the carpet to length at the retailer, but it doesn't make much sense to even bother selling remnants this small.
No bueno.
Wow.
Yeah, that’s really bad and wrong. No excuses for that one. The dude that installed probably spent more $ in labor to install all those seams vs just buying the right size roll.
I don’t know, might have stumbled on a truckload of carpet samples of the same color.......
Pretty bad. The color looks wrong/different because they got the 'nap' at 90 degrees to the others.
DO NOT Let someone come in and wet clean the carpet EVER! Use some type of dry cleaning method only or all those seams will swell and you are going to have a real mess.
BTW, is this a new installation???
Yes..this is new installation in a brand new home.?