Welcome to A Better Carpet & Flooring

Give your home a new look and feel without undertaking a major renovation by replacing your flooring. A Better Carpet & Flooring in Southbury, CT, has been a trusted resource for over 35 years, and we?re confident that will never change.

A Better Carpet & Flooring
We specialize in carpeting, hardwood, and luxury vinyl flooring, carrying a wide variety of brands and styles that will suit your tastes and your budget. From cost-effective options to superior customer service, we?re the premier choice for new flooring.

Years of Service

Searching for a trusted flooring store in Southbury with a proven track record? A Better Carpet & Flooring has over 44 years of experience serving homeowners and businesses in Southbury, Connecticut, and surrounding communities. Since 1981, we've built a reputation for reliable service, expert flooring advice, and quality installation. With nearly half of New Haven County companies closing within five years, our longevity shows we're here to stay-before, during, and after the sale.

Friendly Experts in Southbury

Whether you need a new carpeting or ceramic/porcelain or laminate flooring, our knowledgeable and friendly flooring experts are here to help you find the perfect floor for your lifestyle, home decor, and budget. We will consider the area to be decorated, the type of traffic (Kids? Pets?), lighting, colors, and other factors to create a stunning decor. Come and visit our Southbury showroom at 1277 Southford Road to see, touch and feel the latest styles!

Great Selection

A Better Carpet & Flooring has a wide selection of the highest quality products, including: carpeting, ceramic/porcelain, laminate flooring, lvt/lvp, natural stone floors, vinyl/resilient, waterproof flooring, wood flooring, that can put the perfect finishing touch on any room. Conveniently located in Southbury, A Better Carpet & Flooring has an experienced and knowledgeable staff who will help you through every stage of selecting the right product for your home or office.

Some of the more popular brands we carry are: Hallmark Commercial, Marazzi® USA Natural Stone, Mohawk Luxury Vinyl Flooring, Pentz® Commercial Carpet Tile, Engineered Floors® Dwellings, Provenza® Hardwood Flooring, among others. Regardless of the brand you choose, A Better Carpet & Flooring is dedicated to getting the job done right.

High-end flooring is made with greater care, finer materials and/or a greater emphasis on design. Treat your home to a little luxury with our beautiful designer flooring brands, including: Masland Carpet, Stanton Carpet, Hibernia Wool Carpets, and other fine flooring.

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We specialize in carpeting, hardwood, and luxury vinyl flooring, carrying a wide variety of brands and styles that will suit your tastes and your budget. From cost-effective options to superior customer service, we?re the premier choice for new flooring.
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Brands We Carry

Trusted Name, Proven Quality

We offer a vast selection of carpet consisting of various textures, colors, and styles. With so many options, you are sure to find the right carpet to solidify your home's interior and reflect your personal tastes.

Mohawk Carpet

More than anything, carpet manufacturers like Mohawk have your specific lifestyle in mind. That's why we innovated the softest, most family-friendly and pet-friendly carpets ever. Our carpet stands up to high-traffic wear and resists life's spills and stains like never before. With so many colors and textures to choose from, there's no reason to put off buying new carpet. With Mohawk, you're sure to find carpeting that suits both your lifestyle and your budget.

Masland Carpet

Masland Carpets and Rugs was founded in Pennsylvania in 1866 and still today boasts of its heritage as the leading carpet manufacturer in the United States. Since 1866, Masland has insisted that its carpets and rugs maintain the highest quality. The tradition of manufacturing quality products has been practiced for over 140 years and continues to be practiced today.

Stanton Carpet

Stanton Carpet Corporation is one of the nation's leading manufacturers and importers of high quality wool and synthetic broadloom products and area rugs.

Caress Carpet by Shaw

Caress is backed by Shaw Floors 20-year warranty with stairs included, offering lifetime stain & soil protection, including all pet stains. Caress has been reimagined to offer the best in style and design. All the softness you love...now in your carpet.

DH Floors Patterned Carpets

Dixie Home offers an array of high fashion, trendsetting,broadloom residential products. These highly differiential products use premium yarns and offer the consumer above average styles and performance.

Engineered Floors® Multi Family

Engineered Floors® Multifamily supports property owners and managers of multifamily housing. Just like all of our carpet, EF Multifamily also uses PureColor® technology, making it a favorite among property owners.

Hibernia Wool Carpets

Hibernia Woolen Mills, where traditional styling, a dedication to quality, and outstanding customer service all combine to define us as a premier supplier of superior wool carpets for high end designers and consumers.

Engineered Floors® Dwellings

Dwellings® serves the new home construction market. Using proprietary PureColor® technology, Dwellings provides durable solution-dyed carpets built for combating life’s toughest stains.

Pentz® Commercial Carpet Tile

Each Smart Square is built with our own PureColor® Fiber system that is not only durable but also resistant to bleach, stains and fading from sunlight. No additional pad is required, as Smart Squares comes with an attached cushion backing system for unmatched comfort underfoot.

Our selection of ceramic tile flooring offers the perfect combination of beauty, maintenance and durability. With hundreds of unique colors and patterns, you are sure to find the perfect look to coordinate with your decor.

Daltile® Tile

Daltile is the country's leading manufacturer and distributor of ceramic, porcelain tile & natural stone. Built on a tradition of outstanding design, quality, and service, we set the standard for the entire industry. For over 70 years and counting, we answer the question WHY TILE? with trustworthy tile for floor, wall, and countertop that is proudly made in the USA.

The basic fibers that are used to manufacture carpets today are Nylon, Polyester, PTT, Polypropylene. Each has unique qualities and strengths. Your choice depends upon the characteristics that are most important to your home.

Our selection of laminate flooring offers the perfect combination of beauty, maintenance and durability. With hundreds of unique colors and patterns, you are sure to find the perfect look to coordinate with your decor.

Quick•Step Laminate Flooring

Quick-Step flooring has earned the prestigious FloorScore certification for indoor air quality by passing the most stringent tests in the world. All Quick-Step products are officially FloorScore certified, giving families living on our flooring peace of mind that they are bringing a product into their home that meets strict indoor air quality standards.

Mohawk RevWood Laminate

Mohawk Laminate Flooring is designed for today's lifestyles. Beautiful Decorator Patterns; Installs Anywhere in the Home, Extremely Tough - the CrystalShield™ Finish is a rugged performer.

Explore why Luxury Vinyl Flooring is the top choice for interior designers. Learn how it balances style, durability, and practicality to enhance any space.

Pergo® Rigid Core Vinyl Flooring

Pergo Rigid Vinyl floors are soft, silent, and beautiful to walk on, yet ultra-strong and waterproof. With authentic textures, stylish design, and true-to-life detail – Pergo vinyl makes your hard-wear areas look bright and welcoming.

Aladdin Commercial Hard Surface

rom innovative design trends in LVT and resilient sheet products, Aladdin Commercial leads the industry as the preferred choice for commercial hard surface flooring. Is your project on a tight timeline? Our Quick Ship program delivers flooring in 10 business days or less.

Engineered Floors® Hard Surface

Engineered Floors® Hard Surfaces represents the latest innovations in flooring technology. The brand offers three collections, REVOTEC®, TRIUMPH® and ENSIGNIUM™ as well as numerous LVT glue down styles.

Mohawk Luxury Vinyl Flooring

Mohawk SolidTech is a new generation of vinyl plank flooring that combines the strength and rich visual of hardwood with the fashion, durability, and cleanability of a luxury vinyl tile or plank.

{LVT/LVP Flooring

Offering style, comfort and durability, along with enduring value. Vinyl plank flooring is the perfect flooring solution for busy households, basements, bathrooms, and even kitchens. It has the natural, stunning look of wood, without the risk of water damage because it is waterproof! … This makes vinyl flooring impervious to spills and other wet accidents in your home.

Natural stone has been popular for use on floors for centuries and for very good reason. Stone tile brings the colors and texture of nature to our homes and adds a quality and warmth to a room that's not possible with any other material.

Marazzi® USA Natural Stone

Make a bold style statement with natural stone tile. Its high-heat resistant quality, makes it ideal for kitchen backsplashes and fireplace accent walls. Available in a variety of unique colors and shades.

Our selection of vinyl sheet flooring offers the perfect combination of beauty, maintenance and durability. With hundreds of unique colors and patterns, you are sure to find the perfect look to coordinate with your decor.

Mannington Resilient Vinyl Flooring

Mannington Vinyl Floors prove that vinyl flooring can be both surprisingly fashionable and indisputably durable.

Waterproof flooring mimics the look of natural products like wood or stone and provides a wide array of decors that can be installed most anywhere. It rigid core can be installed in traditionally wet areas like baths, kitchens, family, and dining areas.

Our selection of wood flooring offers the perfect combination of beauty, maintenance and durability. With hundreds of unique colors and patterns, you are sure to find the perfect look to coordinate with your decor.

Hallmark® Hardwood Flooring

Our Hallmark Floors hardwood products combines the ageless beauty and craft of hardwood flooring with state-of-the-art manufacturing. We harvest materials in harmony with nature. Our wood floors are manufactured in a sustainable and responsible way. Great care is exercised in manufacturing to ensure a healthful living environment. We produce floors of unsurpassed quality that you will be delighted to call your own. Designed Beautifully for Durability and Sustainable…Hallmark Floors.

Pergo® Wood Flooring

Nothing beats the beauty of real wood. With a wide range, lifetime guarantee and StayClean protection you can enjoy wood without the worries for years to come.

Provenza® Hardwood Flooring

We create masterpieces. Provenza floors is passionate about designing wood floor collections that provide the finest in hardwood flooring for residential, custom, commercial and eco-friendly applications.

Hallmark Commercial

Since our inception in 1998, Hallmark Floors continues to be driven by our love for wood and our passion for developing, producing and offering the most beautiful, smart and innovative flooring.

{Wood Flooring

Beauty, strength, and unbeatable character that makes a beautiful backdrop in any home. We offer domestic hardwood floors such as maple, hickory, walnut, cherry, red and white oak.