Browse Forums Flooring & Floor Covering 1 Mar 28, 2011 11:42 pm Hi All Have been browsing this forum and through reading here and elsewhere have pretty much decided on solution dyed nylon carpets for our house. We have four bedrooms with one baby and one large black hairy dog so that seemed the best bet. Our current carpet is cheap crappy sisal style tight loop carpet and the dog hairs are actually buried in it - drives me mad! So just wanted to pick anyone's brains on the nitty gritty of going ahead with SDN: 1. For dog hairs is a twist or cut pile carpet going to perform better than a loop one (in terms of the vacuum cleaner actually getting the hair up?). I think from my experience the answer is yes but keen to get an expert opinion! 2. Is there anything to be fussy about with installation. In one thread here i heard someone mention that a powerstretcher did much better to tension the carpet - are these used as standard nowadays, or something i should request? Any other tips with installation? Or are we safe just letting the carpet company sort all of that out for us. 3. Underlay - any particularly good ones for SDN. My conversations so far have been 'standard underlay' vs upgrade for $150, with no actual mention to type etc. Is there anything that i should be specifically requesting - we would like a decent one for some soft carpet floors. 4. Quest vs Redbook - which is the better brand 5. Is this smartstrand carpet that everyone seems to rave about similar price to Quest or Redbook, or much pricier? and, if anyone has had a particuarly bad or good experience with a NOR company in WA then please PM me and let me know (if i am allowed to ask that). Thanks in advance Lauren Re: New Carpet - Tips please 2Mar 29, 2011 11:44 am Osborne Park Carpet and Timbers. We got a great deal on the laminate and carpets, top quality stuff and about $1400 cheaper than anywhere else we went. Talk to Frank. Re: New Carpet - Tips please 3Mar 29, 2011 1:21 pm I bought a really nice sdn last year from g&a carpet choice in osborne park, it was a signature carpet http://www.signaturefloors.com.au/residential/carpet . The installer did a brilliant job and yes he used a power stretcher. one of my dogs was sick on the carpet a few months after it was installed and it cleaned up like it was never there and didnt affect the colour at all. Re: New Carpet - Tips please 4Apr 17, 2011 5:00 pm gday lauren,
1. this is more going to depends on your vacuum cleaner, but it is a bit of both. With a loop the hair will tend sit on top, rather than make its way down into the pile. and so will vacuum off the top fairly easily. But having said that, a twist pile with regular vacuuming and a quality vac wont be any worse. 2. using a power stretcher is in the australian standards, as long as you get the company to guarantee the carpet is lais to standards with warranty and you will be fine. 3. 'standard' underlay is the cheapest rubbish on the market! its horrible, horrible stuff. that i refuse to lay without talking to the owner of the house so they know they are getting rubbish. Look at some samples, dunlop excellay is fantastic. look at it or other foams of around 120kg a cubic metre in weight. or the rubber equivilant. 4. no straight answer, they both make cheap and good. 5.no answer from me! lol good luck! Re: New Carpet - Tips please 5Apr 17, 2011 7:14 pm can I just ask, should carpet be laid over rubbish/ plaster blobs/ mounds of dirt? we moved in and felt 2 lumps under the carpet, now we have lived here there are more than 2 and I am over walking on them and thinking..this cant be good for the carpet to be stretched over a lump as I put my 100kg foot onto it and push it down?? Re: New Carpet - Tips please 6Apr 17, 2011 8:08 pm hey kiwi, definately not mate. although it may not actually effect the performance of the carpet. the floor is supposed to be clean and free from all the usual crap that gets on there like plaster drops, electrictians wire offcuts etc. If the carpet layer didnt want to clean it up (its not his job) he should have had the builder/person responsible for the job do it. Re: New Carpet - Tips please 7Apr 17, 2011 10:15 pm thanks....will be emailing them. I asked if it was ok (the slab) and his only concern was the 'carpet amount was tight" the vinyl is laid perfectly..no lumps. just the carpet guys the next day, laid it over LUMPS>>>ARGHG! thanks Re: New Carpet - Tips please 8Apr 19, 2011 5:10 pm Steve247 " 'standard' underlay is the cheapest rubbish on the market! its horrible, horrible stuff. that i refuse to lay without talking to the owner of the house so they know they are getting rubbish. " Quote I agree that it is rubbish. I do not do this personally. If the customer asks me about the underlay, then I will tell them. . I think it is up to the retailer and customer to decide the underlay. Layers do not know what, if any, negotiations went on in the choice. Though many retailers don't advise customers of the choices, as they just want to sell their regular stock line. I lay some cheap carpet as well, but I wouldn't insult a customer by always telling them they bought "rubbish". Just my thoughts. Mark Re: New Carpet - Tips please 9May 14, 2011 6:51 pm There are hazardous levels too all cleaning chemicals used from good to worse but want to know that are carpet cleaning chemicals harmful to my children or pets? Just be careful with building stability during construction, that is when the structure may be weakened, refer to your engineering drawings for stability methodology. 1 7205 Thank you so much. This has been very helpful. We definitely wish to settle and get these people out of our life. They are trying to charge us interest on late… 7 14187 1 10973 |