Cost to Carpet 1,500 Sq Ft in 2026: $5,290 to $13,790 Installed

Carpeting 1,500 sq ft costs $5,290 to $13,790 in nylon or triexta, including 8 lb rebond pad and professional labor, on prices checked 13 October 2026. Budget polyester is $2,920 to $11,230 and wool $7,160 to $23,030. That is about ten 12×12 rooms’ worth of floor, so the roll width and the seam plan start to matter as much as the price per square foot.

12-foot or 15-foot rolls: the seam question at 1,500 sq ft

Shaw says “most carpet is manufactured in 12-foot rolls, although 15-foot rolls are available as well”, and that larger rooms may need extra material for seaming. On one bedroom that rarely matters. Across the many rooms of a 1,500 sq ft job it decides how many seams you live with and how much carpet ends up as offcuts. The table is simple geometry: compare each room’s shorter side with the roll width.

A 14×20 main bedroom is the classic case: one piece from a 15-foot roll, a seam from a 12-foot roll. Not every carpet line is made in 15 feet, and we found no published price difference between widths, so ask the dealer two things: which widths your chosen carpet comes in, and the seam plan for each. Shaw also tells buyers to discuss pattern direction and seams before the carpet is cut.

1,500 sq ft cost stack, by grade

Where 1,500 sq ft sits among US houses

21 percent of the new single-family houses completed in 2025 had 1,400 to 1,799 sq ft of floor area, and the median was 2,142 sq ft (U.S. Census Bureau, Characteristics of New Housing). Floor area counts every room, so a 1,500 sq ft carpet job is usually a larger house with most of its living space carpeted, or a mid-size house with a carpeted basement. If yours is a finished basement, price that part on a basement pad on the basement carpet cost page. Every size from 500 to 3,000 sq ft is in one table on the whole-house page.

Planning the install: time, furniture and removal

Shaw tells buyers to “be prepared for the process to take several hours or even a couple of days, depending on the size and complexity of the job”. A 1,500 sq ft job is at the long end of that, so agree the order of rooms in advance and keep somewhere to sleep that is not being carpeted that day. All furniture has to be out of a room before it is carpeted. Shaw says a retailer or installer may arrange furniture moving and old-floor removal, “but you should expect this to be an additional cost”, and Home Depot’s cost guide says “Furniture moving, removal and disposal are priced separately.” Ask for those lines in writing.

Regional spread

Multipliers are each region's employment-weighted mean hourly wage for carpet installers (BLS OEWS May 2025, SOC 47-2041) divided by the national mean, applied to the labor line only; carpet and pad are national retail prices. States with no published estimate are left out of the weighting. For state-level detail see the cost-by-state guide.

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