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Glue down

September 7 2006 at 3:19 PM		 Ralph  
Rick,

Thanks for the toner info. The stain is completely gone.
I did my demo today and it went great, this place has 3 floors the basement carpet looks ok, but the next two floors have Gd carpet that are rippling all over the place. I spoke with the maint guy and told him that this was an installation issue. Is there a difference in commercial GD as far as what type of glue the installer uses and what surface it adhere's to. The basement is glued to cement and the next two rooms are glued to plywood and these are the ones rippling.



Ralph

 
 
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Rick Gelinas

Re: Glue down

September 7 2006, 3:57 PM 

There's your problem IMHO. Plywood would make an inferior substrate for gluing carpet as compared to concrete. Concrete is porous and it also has a texture. Plywood is smooth and it flexes under traffic. I'm not an installer, but my guess is that you'd need to use some super duper mastic if you wanted to properly glue carpet to plywood. More than likely the installer used whatever adhesive they had on sale at Home Depot. Most carpet claims are related to poor installation issues.

And I'm happy to hear that your toner stain cleaned up well!





Rick Gelinas
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This message has been edited by cimex on Sep 7, 2006 3:59 PM


 
 
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