Last 3 times I ordered carpet and had it installed, it was through Home Depot.

First time: two white guys, looked like scum, showed up an hour late, were loud as hell, and scuffed one of my walls...didn't notice 'til after they were gone.

Second time: two Mexican guys. On time, polite ("yes sir, no sir, thank you"). Quiet like ninjas and super fast.

Third time: two bums from Clover Carpet in Mayfair got the job. One shows up in a wifebeater, the other guy looked and acted like he was high. Both looked like convicts. Late, slow, messed up the job, one guy spent half the day out "getting supplies"...he'd leave for an hour and a half to get liquid nails, but Home Depot is two minutes away. Left cigarette butts outside. My wife threw them out. Two other guys from Clover finished the job after we complained. They were better, but the one guy still looked like a convict and I think they knocked my new tree over out front when pulling away (didn't actually see it but it was fine right before they left and knocked over shortly after they left).

Who knows of a good carpet place where they hire decent, working people? Maybe people who wear a uniform or at least a company shirt? I'd go back to those Mexicans but I don't know where they came from. I hate when you order things from places and they send total white trash or ex-cons to deliver or install.

We've used Carpet One on Rte 202 all the way down by the DE state line for several houses and have been very pleased with their work and workers.

OMG I cant believe you said that, my mother had the same experience and also called Clover and they sent over 2 different guys, before they even started. The thing with carpet places they contract the job out to contractors. When calling about carpet I would ask if they have their own people do it, not contract it out.

Yeah, I'll never deal with Clover Carpet again.
Even though the owner tried to make amends, the experience too awful and even the attempt to fix things wasn't so hot.

I love how the Home Depot ads have pictures of guys installing things in homes. They look like cleanly shaven soap opera stars, with neatly ironed uniforms and matching hats. But when you get the knock on your door, it's a shifty-eyed, wifebeater wearing, chain-smoking scumbag with tattoos everywhere including hands and neck.

From now on, I call the place prior to delivery or installation and grill them on who they are sending. I list demands and expectations on appearance and behavior. If they aren't up for it, I go with someone else. I don't know why some of these companies with laborers think they are above (but act way below) simple, reasonable guidelines in decency and customer service. I'll admit, when I worked construction briefly, I thought it was okay to take my shirt off on the site, scratch my balls a little - but my boss straightened me out real quick, because he had an image that he wanted to uphold.

Anyone needs carpet please PM me.

I have nothing to do with carpet or the people who install them, BUT appearances can be misjudged, BUT not sure about this Clover I can tell you some people laying your rugs will rip you off pronto.

That's a tough job, and these places contract out, and you have people in your home you wouldn't dare allow in otherwise. Again it's not all places, but please be certain you watch these people no matter what. If need be you have to take a day off do so. If your older parents happen to need carpet be sure someone stays with them. OR just don't let them in. Call the office, and tell them you don't want them in your house.

I have a friend who has done this for I guess thirty years now. He is known for his impeccable work. He actually comes on the job, and anybody he employs he knows, and if there's drug use or any other goings on off kilter they are OUT. I have another friend who has his sons work with him. Nobody shifty. They do great work as well.

My friend explained that because of the lifting, and back breaking work where people blow out their knees and sometimes get spinal fusions they take pain medication for a long time, and after that it's all downhill. It's the only work they have ever done, and with the ink, and teeth and all it's hard for them to find any other kind of job. They usually don't have dental insurance. The drugs ruin their teeth, and it's a cycle.

AGAIN, this is not ALL people who lay carpet. It is not all people with bad teeth. It is NOT ALL guys who lay carpet who have ink. It is though a problem, and it kills me when people tell me they gave strangers their key to go in and lay carpet while they are at work.

We all very well may have had ex convicts in our home. As consumers we have the right to demand someone else do the job. I had a plumber who when I came in from work tell me how pretty my daughter was. My mom was here the entire time, but it weirded me out. After the first night my daughter shows me a very expensive camera. She tells me Joe Schmoo the plumber asked her to watch it for him, and she could take pictures of the new bathroom. He also told her she was a mediteranian beauty. She was 14.

Next day in comes the plumber and his tile boys. I had the camera sitting out. This nut right away says to me "Listen my wife and I need a new babysitter. Our one year old is watched by an older lady, and we need someone young who can keep up with the baby. Your daughter would be great, and it would pay well". NO! No you did not. I gave him his digi cam which was probably stolen, and it was AFTER I checked it to see what pics were on it. I told him to get the hell out of my house, and I called his company. I explained the situation, and they fired him.

The tile guys did come back the next day with a different plumber, and one of them told me that was not the first or second time that happened.

We need to be cautious who we open our door for. This company was insured, and had all the right crudentials, but obviously did n't check out the background of their employees. My brother got the original plumbers home addy, and stopped by for a talk with him. People there are freaks out there.
Ask about the screening of the employees.