RFI: Experience with Shaw Carpet tile needed
Bruce Mast
Here’s another opportunity to assist a colleague in making an affordable housing project greener.
Bruce Mast
Green Affordable Housing Coalition
610 16th Street, Suite 412
Oakland, CA 94612
510-271-0880 fax
From: Kristina
Charbonneau [mailto:Kris...@MikitenArch.com]
Sent: Wednesday, November 09, 2005
12:47 PM
To: Bruce
Mast
Cc: Erick
Mikiten
Subject: Shaw Carpet tile
Hi Bruce,
Thanks so much for helping us out when we seem to have
hit a bump in the road!
Our current predicament is that we specified a Shaw carpet tile(specifically,
the 26 oz. “Peto” tile) for the common spaces and the living units
of our 17 unit affordable housing project in Walnut Creek, CA and we are in
danger of losing it and getting roll goods carpet instead, due to a bidding
error on the part of the flooring sub-contractor and the Owner’s concerns
about carpet tile.
We specified this product because it has all of the benefits of Shaw’s
Cradle to Cradle line as well as the maintenance benefits of carpet tile in
general, i.e. it’s more durable than roll goods and damaged areas can be
easily replaced without having to replace the carpet in an entire room or
living unit. We have relayed all of these benefits to the Owner, but they
are still hesitant to go with carpet tile due to concerns that replacement
tiles will not match existing tiles, even if they are from the same order, due
to wear and fading and that replacement tiles might not adhere to the substrate
as well and may not fit perfectly into an existing field of tiles.
>From our research and our conversations with a Shaw rep, we feel pretty
confident that these issues will not present considerable problems, but in
order to reassure the Owner we’re looking to get some feedback from
people who have had experience with Shaw carpet tile, optimally with
residential installations that are at least a couple of years old.
Thanks so much for your help!
Kristina
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Kristina Foskett Charbonneau
Designer, Sustainability Specialist
2415 Fifth Street
Berkeley, CA
94710
(510)540-7111
Fax: 540-7117
www.MikitenArch.com