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How to handle the edge of the carpet
Carpet, solid carpet that is laid in the residential and office premises. Its functions are diverse. It protects against cold and noise, is handsome, pleasant to use. Besides, with proper care resistant to moisture and fire. With special laying on a metal grid has antistatic properties.
Instruction
Carpets come in both natural and artificial. Natural made of wool, synthetic polyamide and polypropylene. And the life of polypropylene carpet much more up to 10-15 years.Sometimes you need independent processing of the edge of the floor covering. This can be done in several ways.
Pick up in store a thick nylon thread in the color of your carpet. Take a large darning needle, awl, treat the edge of the cover seam "through the edge" or overlock.
Pick up in store a tape or braid that will match your carpet color or pattern. With a thick needle panel edge so that the edge was on the inside of the folded in half lengthwise tape or bands.
If you are not able to process the edges of the carpet yourself, invite to the house specialists with carpet overlock. Today many trade organizations provide this type of service.
Processed edge of the carpet gives it a finished, harmonious appearance, besides, increases the service life of the coating.
Note
Carpets are made in several ways. Woven - the most expensive, are woven the same way as normal carpets, jute mesh. Tufted, carpet adhesive is more common. The threads are stuck in the base and fixed with back side glue or latex. Needle, office carpet molded, you might say, as a whole. It is strong and durable and has sound-proofing. It is used in theaters, offices, libraries etc.
Painted carpet also different. The printing method involves the patterning on the finished product. There is yet another way in which the threads are dyed first, and then go for the manufacture of carpet.
Carpet is nice to lay in the room, it must make a "butt joint". For convenience, the edges of the floor cloths are processed in the factory. But the incision site carpeting are usually treated at the point of sale special carpet sergers.
