Jarrell Wilson learned carpet at 10 in his grandfather’s Houston company
Jarrell Wilson learned the carpet trade in his grandfather’s Houston business as a boy, and now runs his own crew doing the same work.
Houston, TX
On a whole-house carpet job, Jarrell Wilson’s crew moves the furniture out, pulls up the old carpet, puts down new pad and stretches the new carpet over it. Then the furniture goes back in. “If I get a whole house installation, I start at 8, 9:00,” Wilson says. “I’m done by 4:00.”
That is the job his company, Worldwide AAA Development, wants most. It also cleans and repairs carpet and lays vinyl plank, and it takes on small remodeling jobs. “Carpet installation is the flagship,” Wilson says. “Carpet installation is what my crew does the easiest and the quickest.”
He learned the trade as a boy, in his grandfather’s Houston company, AAA Carpet Repair & Installation Service & Sales. “I’ve been doing this since I was like 10 years old,” he says. He worked alongside his grandfather for years before he started a company of his own, with the same three letters in the name. The two now do the same kind of work in the same city. Wilson calls it “healthy competition.”
The older company repairs and installs carpet, and its website says it has served Houston and the surrounding area for more than 25 years. Patching and re-stretching are on its list of services, the same small repairs Wilson’s crew still does. His own company says on its website that it has been in the carpet business “for three generations.”
Worldwide AAA Development started out taking a wider mix of jobs. Its earliest customer reviews go back to 2019. One customer that year thanked “Jarrell and his partner” for mounting two televisions on the wall and planned to call him back to install barn doors. Another praised the crew’s laminate floors. In 2022 and 2023, most of the photos the company posted showed carpet: bare subfloor in one frame, new carpet in the next.
Wilson built it himself, and says so. “I have built a credible business from scratch,” he says. “I’ve made all the decisions.”
The service list now runs from carpet sales and installation to cleaning, patching, stretching, rug binding and water extraction, along with luxury vinyl plank and sheet vinyl. The company’s website says it can source any carpet a customer wants. The crew will also paint a room or fix a hole in a wall, and some customers have hired it to help them move. One customer whose wall caved in after water damage wrote that the crew came quickly and replaced it. “Only thing we don’t do is plumbing and electricity,” Wilson says. “We have people for that.”
He keeps a crew of about five and says he can take it to 10 or 15 when the work calls for it. They run out of vans and trucks. The company keeps hours from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. every day and offers 24-hour water extraction, pulling water out of soaked carpet after a leak or a flood. Wilson will go about 50 miles for a job, which covers Houston and the counties around it. “If it touch Houston, we’ll go,” he says.
On a new carpet job, Wilson prices the installation and the carpet as two separate numbers, each by the square foot. “I explain it to them in layman’s terms,” he says. He sends the carpet samples and sets the schedule himself, and one customer wrote that the team helped pick the right carpet for the house. “I do everything myself,” he says. “So it’s not too much red tape.”
Wilson still goes out on jobs himself, and many reviews mention him by his first name. A lot of the work comes on short notice. One woman had family coming to town at the last minute and needed her carpet cleaned; another customer needed the stairs fixed before relatives arrived. Someone called on a Sunday after a toddler left syrup all over a couch and carpet, and the crew came that day. Someone else needed the carpet cleaned after six weeks with a new litter of seven puppies. “I called and in the same hour he was at my house cleaning my rug and couch,” one customer wrote in a Google review.
Sometimes a cleaning is enough. One early customer wrote that they had expected to need new carpet, and that after the crew finished it looked as if new carpet had been put in. Another wrote that the crew cleaned the carpet in an entire two-story home in less than two hours.
The repairs take a steadier hand. To patch carpet, the company’s website explains, the crew cuts out the damaged section and fits a replacement piece taken from an out-of-the-way spot or from leftover material that matches the rest of the floor. To stretch it, they pull loose, rippled carpet tight with a power stretcher, trim the excess and reattach the edges. One customer hired the company to repair a berber carpet that had been burned and melted.
Not every customer lives in the house being worked on. One landlord wrote that the company has serviced many of his rental homes. The company also installs commercial carpet. “We can do commercial, residential,” Wilson says.
His grandfather’s company still has the longer history; Wilson puts its age at about 30 years. The work, he says, is the same.
“I’m the one who does his work sometimes,” he says.