Why should carpet specified and used in senior housing be any different from any other commercial carpet application and what makes it so unique? Let’s first qualify the senior housing market. There are retirement type housing properties that are the equivalent of...
Floor covering is an installed product and until it is installed and installed properly, it has no value to anyone; it’s simply ballast. Installation has been said to be the bane of the floor covering industry for years. Complaints about the installers’ attitude,...
There are significant advances in the commercial flooring market which impact everyone involved with the product. There have been so many changes in face fiber, backing materials styling, recycling and “Green Issues,” that it’s difficult for the most ardent observer...
Damage to floor covering material can come from any number of sources. The kind of damage we’re talking about here would generally not be manufacturing related, although there can be damage created during manufacture. Most damage related to manufacturing however,...
The question was posed recently about patterned carpet and what’s normal about the way it appears in a wide open installation. To be more specific the question was about bands or lines showing up in a wide open area that are actually the pattern itself. The repeat...
