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Posted by on December 22, 2006, 4:42 pm
monrae fordi wrote:
> We have a small bedroom in a 1936 terraced house in north London. we have
> decided to go for a new fitted carpet with a natural material underlay. (=
not
> rubber underlay, which we suspect might deteriorate after ten or fifteen
> years or so).
>
> The wooden flooring has gaps pretty much all over up to roughly 5 cm where
> the boards have shrunk over the years. with a few places with some short=
ish
> strips up
> to 1 cm wide, where the wood has been damaged at some point, probably we
> guess before
> laying them down.
>
> We thought we would go for the most basic carpet from john Lewis with a
> Hessian backing. It's about =A320 sq metre. (we know the rubber back unde=
rlay
> deteriorate because the carpet we pulled up and threw out was like a mass=
of
> decayed bread crumbs underneath). John Lewis's felt underlay is =A34.45 =
sq
> metre, their basic carpet is =A320 a square metre and the fitting charge =
is
> =A34.65 a square metre, since I don't think I could fit it myself.
>
> Does all this sound a reasonable choice? And what please is it best to do
> about the gaps between the floor boards especially the larger ones? Sinc=
e I
> would like to sort out the gaps in my own time before the carpet actually
> arrives. Thanks for any advice.
if the gaps are 5mm they probably wont matter after the carpet is
installed. A 5cm gap would be about 2" wide and would need to be fixed.
1 cm gap might be a problem .
A fix I have seen done is to use a router and guide strip to route a
groove in the existing flooring and insert a new piece. You cut about
1/3 the flooring depth.
A more common method is to use an underlayment plywood nailed to the
flooring.
The prices you have quoted seem very high , but I have only ever
purchased really cheap carpet :). Get a couple of quotes and you
will soon tell if you are getting fair prices.
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