Today on the Reno Blog: Padding the Carpets
We got our lazy ass over to ABC in Dumbo this weekend to buy rug pads for our carpets. Given that we’re hoping to never move again, we decided to spring for something decent. (Actually, they just have one kind of rug pad at ABC, but it’s very good.) It ended up costing us about…
We got our lazy ass over to ABC in Dumbo this weekend to buy rug pads for our carpets. Given that we’re hoping to never move again, we decided to spring for something decent. (Actually, they just have one kind of rug pad at ABC, but it’s very good.) It ended up costing us about $450 for three very large cuts (over 100 square feet each).
Underneath the Carpet [Renovation Blog]
sorry brownstone-didn’t mean to sound critical. just know how important it is to protect a carpet that you’ve invested a lot of money in. (i ruined one myself by using no pad!)
anony: the pad is used to elevate the the carpet (the pad has a texture sort of like an egg crate or a waffle), so that when dirt gets on the carpet, it passes through to the crevices of the pad. if you laid a carpet directly on the floor, the dirt would stay next to the fibers and grind into them every time you walked on it. the added benefits of a pad are to hold the carpet in place, and offer a measure of cushion. if you’ve spent a good deal of money on a carpet, it is a worthwhile investment imo.
No, it’s quite thick–maybe 3/8 of an inch? The side you can’t see is more texturized, probably the crevices to which you refer…
What are the pads for exactly? Too keep rug from moving or just more cushion?
that doesn’t look like a durahold rug pad…is it really thin? a rug pad has to have nooks and crannies (for lack of a better description, i don’t mind stealing from mr. thomas) so that the dirt falls into the crevices and doesn’t stay near the carpet where it would be ground into the fibers.