Carpet Tiles in Mississauga & Barrie | Commercial & Home

• Offices, clinics and retail back-of-house: the standard commercial floor. Dense level loop and patterned loop tiles in solution-dyed nylon hold up to chairs on casters and daily vacuuming, and worn walkways are replaced tile by tile.
• Basements: most carpet tiles have a moisture-tolerant backing and go straight onto a flat, dry concrete slab, with no pad and no tack strip. If the slab weeps, a tile can be lifted to dry, which broadloom cannot do.
• Playrooms, home gyms and kids' bedrooms: stain and swap. Mix two colours in a checkerboard or stripe for a floor that hides wear.
• Rental units and student housing: replaceable, cheap to repair between tenants, and quick to install around existing furniture.
• Home offices and media rooms: acoustic softness without a wall-to-wall commitment.

Peel-and-stick tiles are the DIY option for small rooms. Glue-down tiles use a pressure-sensitive, releasable adhesive spread with a roller; that is the commercial standard and the one we recommend for anything over 150 square feet or with rolling chairs. Some lines use adhesive tabs at the corners only. Whatever the method, the subfloor has to be clean, flat and dry; carpet tiles are thin and show humps in the slab. Lay them in a quarter-turn (checkerboard) pattern unless the line is designed to be laid in one direction, and start from the centre of the room so the cut tiles at the walls are even.

• Fibre: solution-dyed nylon for commercial and high-traffic residential; polyester and olefin for budget residential rooms.
• Construction: level loop and multi-level loop are the hard-wearing commercial styles; cut pile and cut-and-loop tiles are softer for home use.
• Backing: bitumen or PVC-free thermoplastic backings for commercial durability; cushion-backed tiles for comfort and acoustics in offices.
• Pile height and face weight: lower and denser wears better under office chairs; taller cut pile feels better in a bedroom.

Stairs (unless the line is rated for stairs and nosings are used), bathrooms and kitchens, slabs with active moisture or efflorescence, and uneven subfloors with ridges that will telegraph through. For a formal living room or a master bedroom, broadloom gives the softer, continuous finish most people want there.

Our own crews install carpet tile in offices, basements and multi-unit buildings across Mississauga, Barrie, Toronto and the surrounding areas, and we sell the releasable carpet adhesive and the floor prep products from the same counter for contractors and DIY installs. Bring the room dimensions and we will work out the tile count with cuts and a few spares for later repairs.

See the commercial and residential ranges at the Mississauga store at 700 Dundas St E, 20 minutes from downtown Toronto, or the Barrie store at 112 Saunders Rd off Highway 400. Local pages: flooring in Mississauga, flooring in Barrie and commercial flooring in Mississauga.