Carpet and flooring services in Potomac, MD, sorted by what your floor is doing now: rippling, worn out, damaged, or simply the wrong material. Potomac Carpets is the carpet and flooring crew for Potomac, MD.
Install, replace, repair and stretch carpet
Stair runners, patterned goods and wool
Hardwood, LVP, laminate and waterproof floors
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Every Service We Offer
Open a service to see how we measure it, prep the subfloor, and install it.
Engineered hardwood flooring in Potomac, MD. We compare wear layer thickness, flatten the subfloor, and glue down, float, or staple to suit your rooms.
Hardwood floor refinishing in Potomac, MD. We sand through a full grit sequence, fix cupped and damaged boards, then stain and coat with dust contained.
A pattern turns a simple room into a math problem. Every repeat has to land in the same place across the seam, or your eye catches the jog from across the room. We measure the repeat before we order, add material for the match, and cut so the pattern runs square to the longest wall. Then we set the seams with a seam iron and tape and stretch the whole field tight.
Stretch it, patch it, or replace it. We say which we would pick.
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You get the price in writing
Materials, prep, install, removal and haul-away, itemized.
Stretch it, patch it, or pull it up
What your carpet is doing tells us which service you need. Ripples across the middle of a room mean the carpet slipped off the tack strip, and a power stretcher usually puts it back. A burn, a tear or a pet stain is a patch job, and we cut the donor piece from a closet so the pile direction matches. A worn lane down the hall or backing that has delaminated is not fixable, and you are better off replacing the room.
Carpet repair handles the damage you can point at. Carpet stretching handles tension. We check the backing before we promise either, because a stretch will not hold on carpet that has come apart from its own backing.
Carpet built for the traffic it takes
Pick the construction for the room, then pick the color. Broadloom comes in 12 ft and 15 ft rolls, and that width drives where the seams have to fall. A 13 ft wide bedroom off a 15 ft roll is one clean piece. The same room off a 12 ft roll needs a seam, so we place it out of the walking path.
Stairs are their own trade. Waterfall runners roll over the nose; cap-and-band runners wrap it. Wool needs a dry cut and holds a stretch beautifully. Commercial floors often go to carpet tile, so a stained square gets swapped instead of the whole suite.
Where carpet meets a hard floor
The doorway is where jobs get sloppy. Carpet plus pad sits at one height. Engineered hardwood, click-lock laminate and LVP each sit at another. We work out the finished heights first, then cut a transition strip, a reducer or a stair nosing to bridge them without a lip you catch your toe on.
Hard floors also have rules of their own. Wood acclimates on site before it goes down, or it cups later. Floating floors need a flat subfloor and an expansion gap at every wall. Get a range from the carpet and flooring cost calculator, then let us measure.
Service Questions
Do you only lay carpet?
Carpet is our main trade. We also install hardwood, engineered hardwood, LVP, laminate and waterproof floors when the room calls for a hard surface.
Can loose or damaged carpet be saved?
Often yes. If the backing is sound and there is no delamination, we power-stretch it. Small burns and tears get a patch cut from a closet.
How do you handle several rooms at once?
We run pile direction the same way through connected rooms, plan seams as one field, and sequence the work so you keep a path through the house.
Where do I start on price?
Use the cost calculator for a range. Then we measure your rooms and give you a real number you can hold us to.
Not Sure Which Service You Need?
Describe what your floor is doing. We will tell you the cheapest fix that lasts.