Has anyone noticed a distressing up turn in the amount of new builds with room widths of 16'9"-18' recently? Especially when that's the way the pile runs from the top of the steps... Is it a plot by a shadowy cabal of hardfloor manufacturers to slowly destroy the carpet industry? Or maybe that architects really don't think about finishing products..? Or option three - it's the heat seaming tape companies... Yes, definitely them... Where's my tinfoil hat?
I had a customer who's bedroom measured 5.65 x 4.03 so they had me put an extra wide door threshold cover plate in the doorway instead of having the 5m width, doorway was leading into the landing....looked awful . They always intended having the rest of the upstairs done and I kept asking them if they were sure they wouldn't be having the same carpet on their landing & stairs but they were adamant that they will have a different colour... 3 weeks later they had me back after they decided to have the stairs & landing done....in the same carpet. So after all that they could have gone with the 5m width and I would have had the spare for the stairs and avoided the 60mm flat cover plate
It was bad enough when they started building all these 3 storey houses and 33inch doorways, when door plates only came 32 or 96 inches long
Me too, at the moment, I've got a 8.5x5m piece of sensuality part way in my van, waiting for a fitter to turn up, to help me get it all the way in, i'm definitely getting too old for carpets lol
Those days are long gone, i find it a struggle to lift a carpet and hold on to my Zimmer frame at the same time
Someone ban this man be swapping my sprinter for an actros at that rate. Architects and site manager are 100% clueless on flooring, they have no comprehension what so ever. The stuff up london, especially appartments, are the worst for stupid shapes
I’ve got a jacaranda carpet to do. Lounge is 8 x 5 through a double door into the hallway that’s around 9 x 3m. Went to double check sizes yesterday and shes had the idea we should run it through in 1 piece. I’m glad I got a koolglide because there’s no way that’s getting carried into the house in 1 piece. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
They have maximum weights on stuff like bags of screed for safe handling, but there's no limit to the amount of weight of flooring we have to carry
Just reminded me of a job i did about 20years ago, a specially made piece of carpet 45ftx22ft, they had to get there on a removal wagon and it took 6 of us to get it into the lounge, they also had a huge c shape gallery landing which was specially made to shape, unfortunately, the guy who measured it added 6inches to every measurement, including the internal, which resulted in me having to cut a chunk out of the middle and rejoin it, i don't know if the customer ever knew
Haha, the seaming iron is the most important tool in the carpet bag Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
A 12x5 60oz saxony we had to get to the top of a 3 floor mansion, about 140kg with the usual dont touch the handrail its just been painted.
This is what they were doing in London in the property I was working in several years ago. They were a gay couple who liked quirky stuff and they had 6 massive funky rugs made and heavy as **** which apparently cost them near 40k and they could have got them up with a strong team but the manufacturers stressed that these rugs cannot be bent or kinked so they paid another 2k for a crane and an operator for what was around 3hrs to bring them up through some balcony doors. Think they had to pay to have a section of the road running along side their property to be coned off for single lane traffic aswell, madness!
Its the attic conversions with the 8 winders and skinny staircase that I always seem to get. Customer will say you can't catch the walls or handrail as they have just been painted
Luckily these stairs were some kind of stone, i dont think the mdf ones they use now would have handled the weight
