Carpet Tiles vs. Broadloom Carpet: Which Costs Less Over 5 Years?

We don't have a published price-per-square-metre comparison that holds up across grades, and any number we quoted here would depend entirely on the specific tile and carpet you're comparing. [待确认] — get quotes for both against your actual floor before deciding on price alone. What we can walk through honestly is where the cost difference actually comes from, which matters more than the sticker price on day one.

Broadloom usually wins on material cost per square metre for a plain, uniform install. Carpet tiles usually win on what happens after year one, once wear stops being uniform — and in most offices, retail spaces and corridors, it stops being uniform almost immediately. The entrance and the main walkway wear out long before the corner behind a filing cabinet does.

This is the core of the comparison. A worn or stained carpet tile gets pulled and replaced individually, assuming you kept spares from the original batch. A worn patch of broadloom means either living with it, patching visibly, or relaying the room — there's no clean way to fix ten square feet of a seamless installation without it showing.

Tiles can go down section by section without shutting an entire room, which matters if the space needs to stay in partial use during the work. Broadloom installation is more of an all-or-nothing job for the room it covers.

A small, low-traffic room with even wear and no complex pattern-matching — a private office, a quiet meeting room — doesn't get much benefit from modularity it will probably never use. That's a legitimate case for broadloom, cost aside.