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TIL shaving the pad at seams saves way more time than I thought
Been fighting with thick carpet padding bunching up at the seam lines for months. Last week on a 12x15 bedroom I tried trimming about a quarter inch off the pad backing on both sides before taping. The seams laid flat first try, no wrestling the carpet to hide lumps. Cut my seam time almost in half on that room. Anybody else do this or am I just late to the party?
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corah755d ago
Ten years doing floors and I just figured this out last spring on a 1200 square foot basement job. The old pad was glued down and left a sticky mess so I had to float a new one over it. First room I did the regular way with the pad butted together and the carpet had these two fat lines running through it that I had to stomp on for twenty minutes to get them to settle. Next room I shaved the pad edges down to almost nothing on both sides and taped it. Those seams looked invisible after the power stretcher. Ended up going back and redoing that first room because I couldn't stand looking at it.
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lewis.brian5d ago
Three hundred dollars worth of carpet and pad in that room and you went back and redid it because of a seam you could see? Man I don't know, seems like you were the only one who noticed it. Customers walk on that stuff every day, they don't get down on their hands and knees looking for lines. And if they did they probably wouldn't know it was the pad anyway. I've done plenty of basements with old glued pad, just butt the new pad up tight and hit the seams with a knee kicker before the power stretcher, they settle out in a week. Taping shaved pad edges works fine but its a lot of extra work for something an end table or a couch covers half the time. You do you though, if it bugs you that much I guess its worth it.
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