About to begin a school installation. We are screeding the sub floor, and have a situation covering many classrooms where safetyfloor standard will meet needlecord carpet, both installed as new. I am interested in suggestions as to what to use to join these two products together. The previous installation was done with single naplock which is far too high for thin needlecord and untidy. I have considered a rubber stick down profile onto the edge of the safetyfloor to raise it up to the carpet level but this double stick would take ages and I'm not sure if all of the traffic would eventually kick it up. Any cost effective solutions out there?
Yeah rubber finishing strip is what I usually see. If you want something easy then I would get screw down cover plates. Atleast the cover plates are easy and you know they won't budge. Just doesn't look as good I don't think
That's what I meant by rubber stick down profile. We did some recently on another job but it took ages as you need to glue both the safetyfloor and the rubber, being careful not to spill the F.60 over the edges. Wondered if there was anything else out there that could be put down with gripfill for greater speed.
When we did safety floor in the corridors meeting cord in the classrooms we used sticky bars and put rapid set under them. They wear put faster that rubber but won't move and no drilling
Use masking tape to prevent mess & use a small paint brush to spread the f60 or a small offcut of carpet tile works really well. You can also buy contact tape the same width as the dim strip & its strong as hell. I never use any metal trims in schools Rubber only
I would use sticky cover plates. I put these down in a site office and didn't think they'd last the year but did for a temp new build site office. Floor was getting wrecked as I was installing it. I've also installed them to schools with no problems trip hazards etc.
I do plenty of these in schools i use either t400 dim strips 2m lengths pr dim strip on a roll depending on thickness of carpet or carpet tile . Dont fart around with f60 , use 15mm contact tape then spray backbof dim strip with contact spray. It wont budge trust me . No mess either
We use the t400/t600 strips with contact tape more than the cliptop but on a few occasions where the tiles has met the vinyl area in the classroom the strip has been beat up with the kids scraping chairs across it pulling the strip away so replaced with a flat profile clip top then changed the whole 8 classrooms to the same. I cant believe people use gripfill on these strips though, overkill imo.
