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UK Floor Cleaning Forum => Carpet Cleaning Forum => Topic started by: neil 47 on August 29, 2004, 02:31:05 pm

Title: plastic backed carpets
Post by: neil 47 on August 29, 2004, 02:31:05 pm

Why do plastic backed carpets ripple and do they always go back to their origanal  size ???
       
         Neil

Title: Re: plastic backed carpets
Post by: Dynafoam on August 29, 2004, 04:40:47 pm

Neil,

This is a question asked and answered several times, but worthy of a further airing.

Latex adhesive swells when damp. Polypropylene does not. The differential  causes rippling which will normally disappear when the backing completely dries.The exceptions are when the carpet is prevented from settling back due to being anchored by heavy furniture and when the polypropylene of the weave had been stretched or heat-damaged.

There are other causes of rippling in other carpet types.

John.

Title: Re: plastic backed carpets
Post by: neil 47 on August 31, 2004, 01:33:55 am

Thanks John :D