Carpets and underlay?
Marky Mark
Group,
Having just bought some cheap carpets the type that you glue or tape down I
was wondering about putting newspaper under neath as a sort of underlay?
Has anyone any ideas about this or such a cheap alternative? Is it necessary
to pu such an underlay (to stop the carpet foam backing from sticking all over
the floor) down?
Cheers,
Mark.
Paul Piggott
In message <mgm.103....@eng.cam.ac.uk>
m...@eng.cam.ac.uk (Marky Mark) writes:
> Having just bought some cheap carpets the type that you glue or tape down I
> was wondering about putting newspaper under neath as a sort of underlay?
> Has anyone any ideas about this
> Mark.
It sure makes the newspapers hard to read :-))
On a serious note, it must work OK 'cos I have, in the past, moved
into a house and upon removing the carpets to replace them, spent the
rest of the day reading old newspapers.
Also, I have put carpet on carpet, but it does have the problem that
the top one does tend to 'walk' after a while and one has to push it
back into place.
Paul
B P Rozier
> Having just bought some cheap carpets the type that you glue or tape down I
> was wondering about putting newspaper under neath as a sort of underlay?
This is what my parents do with their foam backed carpet. A few sheets of
newspaper seemed to to the job. If you don't put something down the backing
does stick eventually. And leaves a hell of a mess when you pull the carpets up.
Cheers
Bryan
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Jennifer Wilson
.. has anyone got
ideas on how to prevent rugs placed on carpet
from slipping /creeping
as the stuff you can buy as gripper type underlay
is really expensive.
Tks in advance
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Richard Wilson
Adam Savill
Thanks for the advice, I'm laying my foam backed carpet at the weekend
and refused to pay 15GBP for paper underlay - looks like it's papers all
round!!
Thanks, Julie (for Adam!)
Robin G Sharman
On Mon, 29 Apr 1996 10:33:08 UNDEFINED, m...@eng.cam.ac.uk (Marky Mark)
wrote:
>Group,
>
>Having just bought some cheap carpets the type that you glue or tape down I
>was wondering about putting newspaper under neath as a sort of underlay?
>Has anyone any ideas about this or such a cheap alternative? Is it necessary
>to pu such an underlay (to stop the carpet foam backing from sticking all over
>the floor) down?
Mark,
Best option is to buy paper underlay from B&Q or a similar store - it
comes in metre wide rolls, is easy to lay and costs only a couple of
quid for an average bedroom's worth - if you invest another fiver in a
staple gun to tack the paper down then the job starts to become very
easy and almost professional.
Newspaper is not so good, it tends to move and tear as you lay the
carpet on top of it, resulting in lumps and gaps - when you replace
the carpet an hours job takes all morning trying to read all the old
stories !!
Robin G Sharman
Steve Gwyther
Richard,
You can get strips of 'tape' to put onto the bottom of the rug. It's like the
'hook' tape you have with velcro.
I think it's Innovations or HomeFree that sell it, or try one of the other
catalogues.
Hope this helps.
Cheers,
Steve.
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Geoff Love
Sadly I missed this thread so appologies if this has been covered.
I am replacugn a carpet in a smallish bedroom . I've got some cheap carpet
(hessian backed) but am wondering about the underlay. The existing carper
was foambacked and just had paper underneath.
I need something under the carpet so as not to show irregularities in the
floorboards etc.
How sensible would it be to use the old carpet as as underlay? - it's foam
backed, very close pile and in basically good nick. Would laying the new on
top of the old be sensible or very stupid?
Thanks
Geoff
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Peter Elsden
In article <19960508....@gdes.demon.co.uk>, Geoff Love
<Ge...@gdes.demon.co.uk> writes
I don't know about using the old carpet, but if you are concerned about
irregularities in the floorboards how about laying a sheet of hardboard
down before laying the carpet.
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John Laird
In article <19960508....@gdes.demon.co.uk>, Ge...@gdes.demon.co.uk (Geoff Love) writes:
> Sadly I missed this thread so appologies if this has been covered.
>
> I am replacugn a carpet in a smallish bedroom . I've got some cheap carpet
> (hessian backed) but am wondering about the underlay. The existing carper
> was foambacked and just had paper underneath.
> I need something under the carpet so as not to show irregularities in the
> floorboards etc.
> How sensible would it be to use the old carpet as as underlay? - it's foam
> backed, very close pile and in basically good nick. Would laying the new on
> top of the old be sensible or very stupid?
>
It seems to work fine, although the resultant carpet does have a slightly
peculiar "feel" to it under-foot. Possibly this is because he tends to lay
new carpet on top of old carpet when the pile has collapsed - this isn't a
uniform thing, especially around the edges or under relocated furniture.
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