Service
Enhance your rugs with quality padding and expert appraisals
Shah Abbas Rugs provides high-quality rug padding to help protect your investment, along with expert appraisals for insurance, estate planning, resale and personal records.
Proper rug padding and professional appraisals are essential for preserving the beauty, value and longevity of your rugs. Whether you own a treasured heirloom or a newly purchased piece, these services provide lasting benefits:
- Extend the life of your rug by reducing wear and tear
- Prevent slipping and improve safety throughout your home
- Add extra cushioning and comfort underfoot
- Protect hardwood, tile and other flooring surfaces
- Obtain accurate documentation for insurance, resale or estate purposes
Why us
Backed by years of industry expertise
- Complimentary pick-up and delivery for your convenience
- High-quality rug padding tailored to your rug and flooring
- Professional appraisals backed by years of industry expertise
- Excellent customer service from our knowledgeable team
Padding
Which pad, and why it matters
Padding is the cheapest thing you can do to make a rug last. It absorbs the abrasion that would otherwise grind at the foundation, stops the rug creeping, and makes it quieter and softer underfoot.
Felt
Dense fibre padding. The best choice under a heavy hand-knotted rug on any floor, and the one we fit most often.
Felt and rubber
Felt for cushioning with a natural rubber face for grip. What we use for rugs on hard floors that need to stay put.
Low-profile non-slip
For flatweaves, runners and anywhere a thick pad would create a trip edge.
Rug-on-carpet
A firmer pad that stops a rug wandering and rippling over broadloom.
What to avoid
Cheap plastic waffle padding. It breaks down, sticks to floors and can discolour finishes — we have removed a lot of it over the years.
Appraisal
What a written appraisal contains
An appraisal is an in-person inspection followed by a written valuation you can hand to an insurer, an attorney or an estate executor. We do not appraise from photographs, because origin, construction and condition all need to be verified by hand.
The document identifies the rug, states its construction and condition, and gives a valuation with the basis for it stated. That last part is what makes it useful to an insurer.
People most often need one after inheriting a rug, before insuring a collection, when settling an estate, or when deciding whether a damaged rug is worth restoring.
Each appraisal covers
- Origin and approximate age
- Construction, fibre and knot count
- Dimensions and design description
- Condition, including previous repairs
- Valuation and the basis for it
- Photographs of the piece
Fitted at delivery
Cut to size, in your home
Padding is cut to the rug and fitted when we deliver, set back slightly from the edge so it does not show. There is no charge for the fitting, and if we cleaned the rug there is no charge for the delivery either.
If you are having a rug cleaned and it has never had a proper pad, this is the moment to sort it. The rug is already with us and already off the floor.
Why choose us
Why choose Shah Abbas Rugs
Locally and family-owned and operated since 1980
Complimentary pick-up and delivery
Decades of experience with fine rugs and delicate fabrics
Specialized care for natural dyes and organic fabrics
Careful attention to preserving your rug's original character
Services
Other services
Oriental Rug Cleaning
Hand washing that preserves colour and pattern while thoroughly cleaning every fibre.
Learn more →Rug Repairs
Frayed edges, moth damage and worn areas, repaired to extend a rug's life.
Learn more →Rug Padding & Appraisal
Premium padding and professional appraisals for insurance, estate planning or resale.
Learn more →Schedule your complimentary pick-up
Call the gallery or send a message and we will arrange collection from your home.