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Dave Liquorice[_2_]

On Tue, 15 Sep 2009 23:36:51 GMT, wrote:

Underlay usually reveals its condition on examination.

Aye. I'd replace any rubber based underlay when replacing carpet.
It's cheap enough, a whole roll of underlay is just a couple of
square meters of decent carpet. And the life of the carpet is highly
dependant on the underlay.

The foam stuff turns to dust.

By "foam stuff" I take it you mean the rubber based foam/crumb
underlays rather than the more recent polyurethane foam based
underlays.

The rubber based things turn to dust in 10 years or less, particulary
in areas carrying any sort of traffic. Like halls and stairs.

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Cheers
Dave.