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OT - DIY Carpet Question
J. Robison
>I'm considering a DIY carpet system (the roughly 20"x20" squares that you fit together) for my basement that I'm finishing.
Anyone have experience, good or bad, with any of these systems??
Probably the easiest for me to get would be the Legato brand at HD but let me know if there are other brands that perform well. Thanks.
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David Hay @ Denver
>I think we looked briefly at a carpet system like you're talking about for our family room. I think we decided that the cost of buying enough boxes rivaled that of having someone come and install traditional carpet...but perhaps the price has come down since we last looked.
Ultimately, we ended up putting down a laminate wood flooring (Alloc) since keeping the carpet clean in this particular room was a losing battle.
David
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Michael Wangler in Rochester, NY
>I used carpet tiles in my basement. They were great to work with. I got mine from icarpetiles.com The price was right I did it all myself. I used double sided carpet tape and a bit of tile adhesive.
Michael
Carpet Tile, huh..
Gary Camp, Bend, Oregon
>I'm responsible for putting down between 1 and 2 thousand square yards a year at work. The brand I use is a more industrial variety (affectionately reffered to as Hogs Hair). It is pretty rough but it holds up well to ski boot traffic. The key, like any tile job is layout, you don't want ot have to make narrow cuts. Let me know is you have more specific questions.
glc
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Glenn Madsen near San Francisco
>Three years ago, I had to redo our front room. Previous owners pets had soiled the carpets, and our cats thought that was just fine as well. Nasty mess, it was. Ripped it out down to the joists, including subfloor.
The replacement carpet had to be the tiles, because, if the cats didn't stop their problems, I didn't want to have to redo the entire system again, only a tile or three.
The rug looks sort of ok now. I've replaced one tile due to cats. But the grandkids have found they can pull up the tiles, and often do, when they're here.
Were it not for the cats, I would not have done this. It didn't save any money over regular rugs, professionally installed, and it doesn't look as good as many alternatives.
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John Laseter
>Hello,
The wife and I used the Legato system last summer to redo the carpet in our family room. It went down very easily. The only thing is to figure out how many boxes you need. That way, when you go to HD, they hopefully have the number you need in the same dye lot. Ours didn't, had to order online. (Not sure that it matters, but, the wife is a knitter and a bit AR about color matching. Plus she paid for it.) Follow the instructions to minimize the number of sheets to cut for edgeing. Good luck!
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Tony - Memphis
>I have no idea of the brand, but all of our office buildings out here (10 of them) have tile carpet. Which is great because when you stain one in your area, you trade it with a fresh one you steal from some other area. Like the time my buddy dripped a jelly donut (red) on the floor... Ours gets tons and tons of traffic and looks great. The seams are holding up well. Some are a bit frizzed at the edges, but not too bad. Wish I could tell you the brand.
Tony