"Simon Stroud" wrote in message
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"andrewpreece" wrote in message
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I'm trying to measure up my hallway, stairs and landing for new carpet,
being an untrusting fellow and wary of what a carpet fitter might try
and
put over on me! Thing is, all the pieces I need don't fill up a 4m or 5m
wide carpet roll in a way that there isn't a significant amount of
wastage
( c. 25% ). I know that I have to allow a bit extra and for pattern
matching
etc but even so there is still a significant unused strip of carpet
left.

Am I charged for this leftover remnant or will the carpet shop try
and
sell it on? I may try and find different carpet in a 3m roll and see if
I
can squeeze my needs onto that if I am charged for carpet usage by the
linear yard, instead of by the square yard ( I can get the best usage
out
of
a 3m roll since I need 2.92 m of width to accomodate the three pieces of
carpet I need ).

Oh, and does anyone have an opinion on nylon carpet for use in high
traffic
areas?(versus polyamide or wool mix etc ).

cheers

Andy

Recently had the landingsx2 and stairsx2 done (plus a few bedrooms). The
one
surprising thing was that I ended up with a join on the landing where I
wasn't expecting one.

Because ...

It seems that landings have to be done "the way round" that means that the
bit that drops down over the top step riser has to bend the same way as
how
it comes off the roll. In my case I thought that our 5m long landing
(perpendicular to the stairs) would be done along the "length" of the roll
so no join would be needed.

BUT they can't do it like this because when you bend the carpet over the
top
step the warp or weft (not sure which is which) "opens up" if it's bent
that
way. I think it's called "grinning" in the carpet trade.

So, the landing has to be done the other way, so if you have a long
landing
you can't avoid a join.

Ho hum. It made sense after they explained it. But it was a bit of a
surprise after I'd planned out exactly how much carpet I thought was
needed
to mm accuracy.

Good luck,
Simon.



Diabolical, aint it! You plan ahead and then they hit you with stuff like
that! Seriously, that's very interesting to know. It so happens that my
hallway, landing and stairs are all parallel so I don't think they can
clobber me with that one. I was just reading about carpets on the web, and
one site mentioned that certain carpets or weaves had the property that you
could not see the backing even if you bent the carpet double. Thanks for the
info anyway, I'm starting to refine my estimates in the light of info
provided on this thread,

Andy.