Floor Central: Prevent and Resolve Floor Covering Problems!

By Terry Weinheimer
The Weinheimer Group LLC

The delamination of carpet backing is one of the most misunderstood complaints in the carpet industry. Delamination claims usually start out as concerns with seam appearance, a buckled or rippled carpet, fraying at room edges or fraying next to hardwood, ceramic, laminate or other hard surface floor. […]

Top 5 Installation Mistakes and how to avoid them!
#5 - FAILURE TO SEQUENCE ROLLS BEFORE MAKING ANY CUTS
Many jobs are cut at the warehouse without consideration to floor layout or installation sequence.  This is a huge oversight, which can lead to bowing, skewing, dye lot variations and pattern match problems.
There is a dye lot number, […]

Wrinkles, which can be unsightly as well as create trip hazards, accelerate carpet wear, and cause the carpet to delaminate are rarely a result of manufacturing. Experience shows that proper installation techniques greatly reduce the potential for wrinkling.
Steps that can be taken during installation to prevent carpet from becoming loose are:
First, the carpet should be […]

Owners of even the best-trained pets will occasionally encounter pet urine accidents. Often, the urine is not discovered until long after the accident. The types of damage from pet urine can be diverse and are dependent upon the makeup of the urine. Urine content will change over the pet’s life because of the pet’s diet, […]

 The backing of a carpet can often be overlooked and yet it is one of the most important factors of the carpet’s construction.  A carpet’s primary backing is the depository of the face yarn.  Both the primary and secondary back provide dimensional stability.  A carpet with poor dimensional stability will tend to shrink and pull […]

 Is the Cut Pile Carpet Fuzzing of Shedding?

Rub your hand across the carpet in a brisk tempo to check for loose or attached fuzz. If fuzz develops do not jump to any conclusion as yet.

Is the fuzz short and releasing or minimally attached? This type of fuzz is not unusual on cut pile constructions with […]

At Floor Central, we received the following explanation of shedding from a carpet manufacturer. This is one of the best explanations of shedding I have come across. This is suggested reading for both industry personnel and carpet consumers.
Carpet Shedding
With all the styles we make using staple yarns this explains why (to some extent) we receive […]

 
Among the mysteries and most misunderstood concerns with carpet is pile reversal, shading, watermarking and pooling. These concerns result in not only the changing appearance of a carpet, they also result in disappointment and often irritation on the part of the consumer when the change takes place. Often this change occurs within days or weeks […]

For your convenience Floor Central provides links to trade associations, regulatory organizations, flooring manufacturers, flooring media, educators, consultants and others.
ASSOCIATIONS /ORGANIZATIONS
BAMBOO ORGANIZATIONS
American Bamboo Society ABS issues a bimonthly newsletter and a journal about the use, care, propagation and beauty of bamboo.
Bamboo Australia  A very informative commercial site.
European Bamboo Society EBS is an informal federation of national European bamboo […]