There are several new condo buildings that are having issues with the installation of carpets on the common corridors in their buildings. Alternative party carpet inspectors are generally the people who end up having to make the decision on why the carpets are failing. By the time a carpet inspector finally gets قیمت خرید آنلاین فرش شگی involved with your claims the carpet has been subjected to move-ins, sauna cleaning, vacuuming and atmospheric issues.
The very nature of the hospitality style carpet used in condo common areas can invite problems. Proper installation and maintenance procedures are extremely important if there is any anticipate to maintain a beautiful appearance for over a decade.
Carpeted common corridors in condominiums often have stylized edges and irregularly formed hallways that need several carpet panels to be seamed together to complete the installation. The manner in which carpet seams are expected to be constructed has changed dramatically during the last five years. Unfortunately no one has informed the carpet fitters. There is just no mechanism in the industry that keeps the carpet fitters and retailers informed on industry changes.
According to the Carpet and Brown area rug Institute’s Standard for Carpet Installation 2011, glued down carpet is supposed to have all cut edges seam sealed with a thermo plastic adhesive or something similar. A third bead of seam sealer is said to be applied to one edge of the seam to “weld” together the carpet panels. Most carpet fitters and retailers don’t realize this requirement. It is no wonder that seams are fuzzing in so many buildings.
Unfortunately the responsibility for fuzzing seams gets placed on the carpet manufacturer, the carpet cleaners, the cleaners and the latest one is the new LEED approved carpet adhesive. There is nothing further from the truth. The reason the architects and the carpet manufacturers refer to all cut edges of the carpet be exemplified with a seam sealer is that they want it. The construction of carpet and the adhesives used to bind the primary and supplementary backings has changed for many reasons, primarily to make carpet a carpet “greener”.
Another installation related issue creating mayhem with installs is lack of adhesive being used to hold the carpet to the substrate. If there is one place where corners can be cut it’s by lowering on the amount of adhesive used to hold down the carpet. You can double the “savings” if the carpet is a double-gluedown installation. This type of installation is when the carpet is mounted to the underpad and the underpad is mounted to the concrete. There are graphs that clearly outline what kind of trowel to use to apply the adhesive on different types of carpet backings. Unfortunately it’s rare that fitters to abide by this chart. The rule of thumb for a properly mounted carpet is that it would be extremely difficult to peel from the lemon back a carpet and if you could that there would be legs in the adhesive. Legs in the adhesive means that the where the glue stands between from the concrete there are strings of adhesive between the floor and the carpet support.
The last major issue with corridor carpets that is often seen is when wall to wall carpet is replaced by new carpet tiles. Carpet tiles are installed with a pressure sensitive adhesive. This adhesive must be applied to a clean concrete surface without any all pollutants including adhesive from previous carpet installs. If pressure sensitive adhesive is applied over the old carpet adhesive then it mixes in with it, moisture is trapped and as the moisture eventually tries to escape around the edges of the carpet tiles and lift or the new adhesive emulsifies. Again this problem is usually attributed on the manufacturer and the carpet supplier will often try and gluedown the lifting edges using adhesive that they should not be using in attempt to keep the lifting edges down on the concrete.
The dilemma for most condo firms is the premiss that carpet is being installed by specifications. When a company who things properly quotes against a company who not the price difference is quite substantial. Inevitably the companies who make short cuts or don’t know the standards get honored the contract. Unfortunately the sad truth is very few companies are installing according to standard.