Right fluffy boys im in need of advice im not a carpet fitter at all and bloke I normally ask for info and does my fitting is on holiday with phone off, I have a customer who has a wilton carpet from a shop but wants me to fit it and supply underlay so what underlay wouud you supply for a wilton carpet does the gripper need to be doubled up? What should I be looking at m2 for fitting costs , Cheers lads
Is it a Belgian Wilton or traditional woven? I'd normally suggest a combo underlay (felt and crumb rubber). Failing that a firmer contract type
If i fit wilton i usually double the gripper. More so on the width rather than the length. I work for a company so just use underlay they supply. Usually dreamwalk, think your sposed to use woolfelt though? As i said i just use what the company tells me to use
a good dense (thick lol) underlay axfelt is the best combi ive used so far, i hear its being made available again soon Kensington is another but not as good double bank the gripper good to go
And defo double bank your gripper and put some infront of the plates too, I always dex the backing as well.
I'd use firmalux (probably spelt that wrong) or cloud nine contract ! Double bank the grips on the end widths & copy dex the whole thing to the grips. Nip the sides, tuck the ends ! Copy dex on the back before cutting on the ends some can burst to hell ! £4 m2
crumb rubber mate. Not a soft as your cloud 9's but its for those types of carpet. Culpeck do solfelt, also Kensington which someone else said. I would double bank the gripper and If I remember what matt taught me, the width is most important but anything over 5m id do the length aswell. Fitting, as much as you can. Who wants to work for rubbish money, we have trade. £5 m2 for fitting as they are supplying the carpet and you cant make any money there, put some on for fitting the underlay aswell. £1-1.50m2 for underlay. Give them the gripper for free, nice touch. haha 28m2 for the job, say you get £6m2 for the lot, £168.
He isnt a fluffy man so I doubt he has a power stretcher. Honestly how many carpet fitters have them? Merit is now on the list. Has he used it though? merit can you do some jobs for me, ill let you get the power stretcher out!
I just laid some crumb/rubber under 50 oz Brockway. The customer believed that soft underlays were dangerous on stairs and asked for something harder. Its guaranteed for life isn't it!
tarkett. you are a man of knowledge. I need to find a carpet to try and get in with a new client. He has the quote from another firm and All I know is they were quoted matrix??
I've got one ! Don't use it ! Don't fit carpets any more but when I did it did come out the box now & then !
