A remnant rug is an area rug made from the end of a carpet roll. We cut the piece to the size you want, finish the raw edges so they cannot fray, and you take home a rug in a size and color you will not find prebound anywhere.
The carpet is first-quality. The price is lower because of how the piece came to exist, not because of anything wrong with it.
Why rug remnants cost less
Carpet is made in rolls twelve feet wide and a hundred feet or so long. Someone buys eighty feet of it for their house. What is left on the roll is a remnant.
That piece is now too short to sell to anyone carpeting a whole home, so it sits taking up rack space. Priced as a single piece, it moves. You are buying somebody else’s leftover, and their leftover happens to be the right size for your dining room.
Nothing about the carpet changed when the roll got shorter.
Remnant does not mean second
This is the confusion worth clearing up, because some places do use the word loosely and mix in mill seconds, irregulars, and goods with real flaws.
Ask any store directly whether their remnants are first quality. Ours are. If a piece has a defect it does not go on our floor, and we will tell you which mill a piece came from and why it ended up on the rack.
Our full explanation of the category is in what is a carpet remnant.
The part that actually matters
Every rug retailer you have shopped sells three sizes: 5x8, 8x10, 9x12. Those exist because they are efficient to manufacture and warehouse, not because rooms come in those dimensions.
So if your living room wants a 7x13, or your dining table needs 10x11 to keep the chairs on when they pull out, or your landing turns a corner, you are choosing between a rug that is visibly too small and one that runs under the baseboard.
We cut to the size you actually measured. That is the whole difference, and it is why bound carpet remnants solve a problem that a wall of prebound rugs cannot.
What we can and cannot do
Width tops out around twelve feet, because that is how the roll comes. Some mills run thirteen foot six and fifteen foot widths and those turn up occasionally.
Length is whatever the piece gives us. Pieces on the rack run from about three feet up past twenty.
Shapes: rectangles, squares, runners, ovals, circles, and L-shapes for a room with a bump-out. Curves cost more per linear foot than straight edges because the edge finish has to be worked around the radius rather than run straight.
Edges: bound, which wraps the edge in a fabric tape about an inch and a quarter wide, or serged, which wraps yarn around the edge so it reads as part of the rug. Which one suits your carpet is covered in binding vs serging.
Turnaround is usually a few days. We cut and finish here rather than shipping the work out.
Where a carpet remnant rug is the obvious answer
A room that is not a standard size. The core case.
Under a dining table. Measure the table and add 24 inches on every side so chairs stay on the rug when pulled out. A 40 by 72 inch table wants roughly an 8x10, but a 44 by 84 wants something no catalog stocks.
A hallway or a landing. Cut the runner to stop exactly where you want it rather than where a manufacturer decided.
A basement or a rec room. Large area, and you would rather not spend catalog money on it. See basement flooring.
Anywhere you want a specific carpet as a rug. A dense wool loop, a soft nylon plush. Most rug shops cannot sell you those in rug form at all.
What it costs
Two parts. The carpet, priced as a piece, and the edge finishing, priced by the linear foot of perimeter.
An 8x10 has 36 feet of edge. A 5x7 has 24. A long narrow runner has more edge per square foot than a squarer rug, which is worth knowing before you decide between one long runner and two shorter ones.
Compare the total against a catalog rug of similar quality and the remnant usually wins, and you get the color you wanted rather than the color that was in stock.
We publish per square foot pricing on the inventory page. That number is the carpet. Call and we will tell you what your finished rug comes to, including the edge.
Get a pad
A bound rug on a hard floor needs one. Without a pad it slides, it creeps out of position, and it wears through faster from the back. Have the pad cut about an inch smaller than the rug on all sides so it does not show.
How to buy one
Bring the dimensions of the space, not the rug. We will work out the rug size from the room. A photo of the room helps more than people expect, because the light in a room tells you whether a color works better than a swatch under showroom lighting does.
The rack turns over constantly, which is the one real drawback. What is on the floor this week may be gone next. The current stock is on the site, and it is worth a call if you have a specific color in mind before you make the trip.
We are at 2855 Saw Mill Run Blvd on Route 51 in Pittsburgh, with parking behind the building. Family run since 1970.
Call (412) 885-1444 or send us your measurements.
