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03-04-01, 07:10 PM
I just installed a laminate floor in a bedroom and need to make the transition to the hall carpet. I want to do this without a moulding. I have trimmed the carpet and can roll it under itself and butt it to the edge of the laminate floor. It looks great like this but how do I secure it?
Thanks
Mike
Thanks
Mike
Carpets Done Wright
03-05-01, 05:42 AM
Just like I replied back to the guy a couple of posts ago, that wanted to know how to do the transition to his tile. Z-bar with tackstrip, or just tackstrip and latex the gully between the the tackstrip and your wood.
03-07-01, 03:56 PM
i have a question we want to install a commercial carpet over a tile floor for our new restuarant it is a former mcdonald's so the tile is in very good shape infact its very nice but to loud a flooring for a fine dining room , can we just use padding and cheap commercial carpet
to get thru the first few years ?? any help greatly
appreciated
to get thru the first few years ?? any help greatly
appreciated
Carpets Done Wright
03-08-01, 10:15 PM
By commercial carpet, do you mean cheap level loop?
Level Loop Commercial carpet is meant to be glue directly to the floor!! Putting level loop commercial carpet, stretched in over rebond pad voids any manufacture warranties, and as an installer I would only give you a tail light warranty on the installation. Synthetic hair or felt pad of 50 oz. is recommended, but will cost 3 times as much as the carpet. You can however do what is called a double stick glue, but the padding would cost you double what the carpet costs. Because it takes a special double stick pad that is very dense(not much give in it).
The reason is level loop commercial carpet is very thin, and traffic shocks it over pad and it will delaminate the primary and secondary backings, which will show up as wrinkles in traffic areas, that won't stretch out. Seams will ravel and come apart eventually no matter how much seam sealer is applied! Too much flex in the backing makes the latex holding the primary and secondary backings together, crumble and fall out.
Level Loop Commercial carpet is meant to be glue directly to the floor!! Putting level loop commercial carpet, stretched in over rebond pad voids any manufacture warranties, and as an installer I would only give you a tail light warranty on the installation. Synthetic hair or felt pad of 50 oz. is recommended, but will cost 3 times as much as the carpet. You can however do what is called a double stick glue, but the padding would cost you double what the carpet costs. Because it takes a special double stick pad that is very dense(not much give in it).
The reason is level loop commercial carpet is very thin, and traffic shocks it over pad and it will delaminate the primary and secondary backings, which will show up as wrinkles in traffic areas, that won't stretch out. Seams will ravel and come apart eventually no matter how much seam sealer is applied! Too much flex in the backing makes the latex holding the primary and secondary backings together, crumble and fall out.