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shalley

17 February 2010

Re: installing carpet on stairs..is this correct?Flooring & Floor Covering

Feb 17, 2010 10:36 pm

the stairs have been made 'wrong' in the first place. The stairs and the architrave are not done by the same people. We are owner builders so the staircase, architrave and the carpet are all licenced tradies we hired separately at different times. As I now know this is the standard installation met...

the stairs have been made 'wrong' in the first place. The stairs and the architrave are not done by the same people. We ...

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shalley

16 February 2010

Re: installing carpet on stairs..is this correct?Flooring & Floor Covering

Feb 16, 2010 7:36 pm

Finally some pictures! Thank you zeke for telling me about photobucket. http://i817.photobucket.com/albums/zz100/shalleyhome/carpet1.jpg http://i817.photobucket.com/albums/zz100/shalleyhome/carpet2.jpg The first pic shows the opening at the top of every riser. The underlay Dunlop Ultimate is very th...

Finally some pictures! Thank you zeke for telling me about photobucket. The first pic shows the opening at the top of ev...

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shalley

15 February 2010

Re: installing carpet on stairs..is this correct?Flooring & Floor Covering

Feb 15, 2010 7:18 pm

Thanks for your lovely thought Southies. I'm glad you understood my description.

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shalley

15 February 2010

Re: installing carpet on stairs..is this correct?Flooring & Floor Covering

Feb 15, 2010 6:58 pm

Thanks for your replies Zeke and Southies. Yes, our carpet is the same as Southies. It looks great along the wall but on the other side we have architrave that follows the steps so the architrave falls short where the carpet is sticking out at the "nose" therefore exposing a small opening....

Thanks for your replies Zeke and Southies. Yes, our carpet is the same as Southies. It looks great along the wall but on...

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shalley

15 February 2010

installing carpet on stairs..is this correct?Flooring & Floor Covering

Feb 14, 2010 11:29 pm

We just had our carpet installed which looks great, layer spent 10hrs however I'm not sure if the stairs are done correctly. The edges along the riser are not stapled down completely, each riser shows a small opening. I wasn't there when the layer finished the job so couldn't ask him but spoke to th...

We just had our carpet installed which looks great, layer spent 10hrs however I'm not sure if the stairs are done correc...

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