A friend of mine who runs a pub (for a well known brewery) who is now giving it up and leaving asked me to pop in to have a look at the carpet area for them because the 1 meter width carpet has come away from several joins. I had a look at it and its fcuked. Id need to uplift everything and start again if I had a chance of fixing it. Fresh cuts then rebutted (losing the least amount of pattern match as I can) which means they would lose around 3inch from the last drop that sits under the whole wall length bench. They dont want to start dismantling everything so said they will leave it and will have to take a hit from the brewery. The brewery have gone in and told them this that and the other needs sorting/repairing else they will be billed etc and they said the carpet is damaged and will need replacing. On inspection there has been no seam sealent used at all (double stick method) just butted with carpet adhesive over some cheap ass underlay. The carpet is that usual pub heavy duty thick stuff that needs seam sealant, according to them they will lose about £1500 for that area... My question is couldnt they go back to the brewery and tell them the carpet was not installed correctly? And then get a proper report to back them up...? The carpet is just iver 2yrs old and the gaps are shocking, ive seen 20yr old pub carpets with better joins. Is there anything that can be an advantage to them you think?
Maybe if they get a spec sheet from the carpet manufacturer that states 'must be seam sealed', surely that would work in their favour....or is it a case that seam sealant should be used but doesnt have to be
Its the blue carpenter underlay, ill check it out. Waiting on the manufacturer of the carpet so we can get the spec sheet.
if it is meter wide body carpet it should have been sewn together it would also have a selvedge and would not need sealant. if it wasn`t sewn it should have been heat or silver seamed. seen it before in bar areas where it comes apart because all the drinks that get spilt make the carpet wet which releases the adhesive. personally i wouldnt rely on just the underlay to hold the join together in any situation
