Browse Forums Flooring & Floor Covering Re: Advice on carpet? ASH? lol 3Jul 16, 2008 4:02 pm How the hell did I become a senior member!? I know nothing! Re: Advice on carpet? ASH? lol 4Jul 16, 2008 4:07 pm Internal and External Building and Colour Consultant Online - Worldwide http://www.denovoconcepts.com Re: Advice on carpet? ASH? lol 5Jul 16, 2008 4:12 pm How the hell did I become a senior member!? I know nothing! Re: Advice on carpet? ASH? lol 6Jul 16, 2008 4:17 pm Internal and External Building and Colour Consultant Online - Worldwide http://www.denovoconcepts.com Re: Advice on carpet? ASH? lol 7Jul 16, 2008 4:22 pm How the hell did I become a senior member!? I know nothing! Re: Advice on carpet? ASH? lol 9Jul 27, 2008 3:45 pm How the hell did I become a senior member!? I know nothing! Re: Advice on carpet? ASH? lol 11Jul 28, 2008 11:10 am How the hell did I become a senior member!? I know nothing! Re: Advice on carpet? ASH? lol 12Jul 28, 2008 11:30 am grace_slick Thanks Ash, for your advice there. I am sort of slightly unsure of how to know what I’m doing with carpet, as you say the lower profiles are better and more dense etc, which makes sense, but they’re not as soft. I find the softer the carpet, the more expensive and supposedly better quality, but then for them to be softer, they tend to be higher in the profile…so that’s not good then? Or is it? lol It’s confusing! Basically, I know price isn’t the first consideration, but in your experience, firstly is Andersens ok for carpet? Are they overpriced or crap at laying carpet in any way? (or are they all much the same, the retailers?) Secondly, any twist pile carpet priced over $60 per loomal metre (or whatever it is), can it be assumed it’s pretty good? For cut pile carpet (assuming both are solution dyed nylon and extra heavy duty), for you to safely assume a carpet is good, would you need to go up in price a bit? Like, $60 for twist pile would be a better quality carpet than what you’d get for $60 for cut or plush pile? Sorry for this garbled post! lol Grace, I understand the luxurious feel of a deep plush pile carpet is attractive. But I tend to caution folk that deeper pile has a propensity to compress and settle more, especially if it lacks density. If they are all extra heavy duty, they should all be quite good in service though. Also, the much thicker, deeper pile carpets will be more expensive, by virtue of there being much more yarn in it. This added thickness doesn't make it peform any better, and when it comes to cleaning and maintenance, it means there's more capacity for it to collect soil etc, and can take more work to clean effectively. So I suggest very densely tufted, lower profile carpets. They may not be quite as luxurious, but generally better value for money. Ash. Versaloc is a mortarless besser block system that still needs a properly engineered footing. If you just do a 400x200 footing it will fail in time. At 17m long you need it… 1 21525 1 16179 they can, it's a fairly standard solution when the slab isn't recessed. the falls need to be in the main floor, if it hasn't been done then you need to ask them to redo… 4 6759 |