Richmond Flooring Austerity Carpet Tile Flooring

Carpet tile earns its place in basements and home offices for a practical reason: it is warm and quiet underfoot, and any damaged tile lifts out and gets replaced on its own.

In simple terms: Richmond Flooring Austerity is carpet in modular tiles rather than a single broadloom roll, so it is easy to install, easy to repair, and well suited to basements and home offices. Squarefoot Flooring stocks and installs it.

Here is what matters with this one. A DuraLock backing gives the tiles dimensional stability, so they stay flat and square and lie tight to each other without curling at the corners. Colours in the range include Cashew.

The real advantage of carpet tiles is modularity. If one tile is stained, burned, or soaked, you lift that single tile and drop in a spare instead of recarpeting the whole room, which also makes the floor easy to carry downstairs and install in a basement.

Think basements, finished lower levels, home offices, kids' playrooms, and home theatres. Carpet tile is warm and soft underfoot, dampens sound between rooms and floors, and goes down over concrete, which is exactly what a basement needs.

Installation is glue-down. Our own crew, employees rather than subcontractors, starts by making sure the subfloor is clean, flat, and dry, including bare concrete in a basement. We plan the layout and dry-lay a few rows to set the pattern and check colour flow, then bond the tiles with full-spread adhesive, working out from the centre so the border tiles fall evenly. Individual tiles can be lifted and reglued later if one ever needs replacing.

Decision line: Austerity suits basements, rec rooms, and home offices where comfort, quiet, and easy repairs matter.

We keep Austerity at both stores, where you can judge the colour and pile properly. Contact us for stock, see the full carpet tile range, and for offices and retail spaces ask about our commercial flooring work.