Homeowners wanting to drastically change the look of a basement or garage while simultaneously adding extra comfort can choose to lay carpet over concrete flooring. A thick layer of padding underneath the carpet helps ease stress on feet even more. However, the hardness of the material and the u...
or lying on their backs doing something underneath the car. It makes sense that you’d want to cushion that hard concrete floor a bit. Carpet seems ideal for this, but garages are even messier than kitchens when it comes to things getting spilt and dropped on them – and paint, engine...
Rugs, Carpets and Carpeting - Removing Basement Carpet - I am in the process of removing my basement carpet. This is no easy task, as every square inch of the carpet was glued to the concrete floor. I have been using an extended scrapper to remove the ca
A beater bar is a Berber carpet’s worst enemy. The beater bar should either be adjustable to stay out of the way when vacuuming or absent from the vacuum head. If it makes contact, your Berber carpet will most likely end up with bald spots. Suction Power Ideally, you’ll want a vacu...
by conventional adhesive 22, directly to the concrete floor 18, although the invention is equally applicable to situations where the carpeting 19 is adhesively applied over padding, and the padding is applied by adhesive, or where the carpeting (with or without padding) is applied by conventional...
including the need to "seal" a concrete floor in order to prevent the adhesive from being absorbed into the concrete. A second disadvantage is that when the tiles are removed the glue which remains on the floor is both difficult and costly to remove in order to return the floor to its or...