I've always used a silver seam a big fan infact. How ever I've received a rather strange request ,a job spec to sew a carpet seam 8 metres long in a pub I've been fitting carpets for 22years and even as an apprentice at 16 never sewed carpets. Has anyone any advice ? Or a link to point me in the right direction .
Used to get a lot of 27" runners sticked for pubs but at the Hugh Mackay factory in Durham & layed them on hair felt so seam beads in ! If your guna stich by hand & its allready down you'll have to uplift it all ???
Yeah always fit on felt so seam beds in,it's a new Axminster carpet being fitted,spec say No silver seam or heat seam to be used , apparently if seams are sewn they are less likely to split if wet!! But I've taken carpet up with silver seam submerged in floods and it's absolutely solid? Just wondered how long it would roughly take to sew an 8mtr seam and what's the system ?
The carpet in the vid look easy to sew but we now they aint all like that, if you have to buy a sewing kit get one with the thimble that slips over your thumb it makes it a lot easier to push the needle through if the carpets hard.
We do dance floors & hard floors for a company & they insist all seams are hand stitched.The guys that do there fitting are proper old school & quick but they don't use thimbles they use "sail palms" as they say they can get more force behind the needle on tough backing. http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Sailmaker...orting_Goods_Sailing&var=&hash=item4d17b945be
Why o why would you want to go back to old methods? Do cars have steam engines any more? Do we watch TV on a B/W screen? Do wind up a record player to listen to music? We move on. We only move on if the newer method is better. Stitched Joins are not better in lay flat installs. Granted they are better if to be bent like a BN step for example. But saying that , the way you stitch a BN step is different to how you stitch a carpet for lay flat joins. Loads of bull saying there stronger. Who ever is doing the spec for the carpet really needs to go on a course on methods of joining a carpet. Question, on every stiched carpet you have seen can you see the join from miles away?
Mat, my thoughts exactly ,why not just dura fit or system 10 why complicate a straight forward installation the guys been miss informed and not made aware of other installation methods.
I wouldnt say its more complicated. Sewing is a easier method with less to go wrong. However the results are poor. Newer methods are actually more complicated (if you can class them as complicated) and stand more of a chance to cock up. However if you use someone who knows what they are doing then nothing should go wrong and the overall results will be far past sewing.
