The major carpet manufacturers such as Mohawk, Shaw, Masland, etc. all have need of individuals who can perform color repair services such as correcting mismatched colors at the seams of new carpet installations. Did you know that the manufacturers often have to rip out vast expanses of brand new carpet because of dye lot disparities, causing mismatched color at the seams? We recently corrected a large seam match job in Washington, DC in a law firm where over 12,000 square feet of carpet had mismatched color at the seams. We charged $20,000.00 to correct the issues and completed the entire job in one 10-hour day. Our total material cost on the job was $28.00 So why would the manufacturers be willing to pay this much money for a day’s worth of work? Simple. Their alternative would have been the following:

1. Pay someone to rip out all newly-installed carpet
2. Pay someone to scrape all of the glue off of the concrete floors. This alone would have taken over a week to complete
3. Pay to have all carpet that’s been removed hauled out, loaded in a truck, and taken to a landfill (where they have to pay to dispose of it). Also, bear in mind that the carpet is non-biodegradable, so it just “sits” in the landfill.
4. Run an entire new production of carpet and hope that they don’t have the exact same issue again with mismatched seams
5. Pay to transport newly-produced carpet to job site
6. Pay to have new carpet cut and installed (glue down)
7. Wait for client’s approval for new carpet appearance
8. Deal with unhappy dealers and end users for excessive time that was required to resolve the issue and complete the renovation.

As an alternative to all of this, the manufacturers can get the issue resolved in a timely manner at a fraction of the cost of having to rip out and replace all of the carpet.