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Anyone tried felt-backed carpet?

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M. Jakeman

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Jul 11, 2003, 4:33:07 PM7/11/03
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I gather this type of carpet has only been around for a couple of
years or so. Has anyone tied one? Is it true that they don't require
underlay?

TIA

Jake

Lawrence Milbourn

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Jul 11, 2003, 4:53:56 PM7/11/03
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A carpet fitter acquaintance fitted a felt backed carpet for me. He advised
me to get the best underlay I could afford. He reckons its more important
than the quality of the carpet.
Quite pleased with the felt back, so far.

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M. Jakeman

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Jul 11, 2003, 6:31:15 PM7/11/03
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On Fri, 11 Jul 2003 21:53:56 +0100, "Lawrence Milbourn"
<milb...@innotts.co.uk> wrote:

>>A carpet fitter acquaintance fitted a felt backed carpet for me. He advised
>>me to get the best underlay I could afford. He reckons its more important
>>than the quality of the carpet.
>>Quite pleased with the felt back, so far.

Thanks for the response. There isn't that much choice of underlay is
there? Or is there?

Jake

Scott Mills

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Jul 11, 2003, 6:48:08 PM7/11/03
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"M. Jakeman" <har...@excite.com> wrote in message
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Well... On my recent trtp to Allders Carpets there was no less than 6
different choices to choose from. They will sell you the most expensive fear
not.


tim

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Jul 12, 2003, 4:37:25 PM7/12/03
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"Lawrence Milbourn" <milb...@innotts.co.uk> wrote in message
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> A carpet fitter acquaintance fitted a felt backed carpet for me. He advised
> me to get the best underlay I could afford. He reckons its more important
> than the quality of the carpet.

Which to me seems to defeat the purpose of buying felt-back, the fact
that it is cheap.

I just had a room done and got a choice of felt back, no underlay for
200 quid or hessian backed with underlay for 500 quid. 70% of the
difference in cost was the underlay.

tim

Chris Hodges

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Jul 12, 2003, 5:29:43 PM7/12/03
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M. Jakeman wrote:

We were going to have felt backed fitted without underlay, over hardboard.

You don't normally use gripperrods with felt-backed, and one the old
carpet (underlay, hessian-backed and gripperrods) bookcases had a
distinct lean forwards.

In the end though we found that the previous owners had fitted the
skirting above the carpet, leaving a gap of up to 25mm, so we had 11mm
underlay fitted as well. Supposedly this was the decent stuff - quite a
dense foam compared to what I've seen before.

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