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Carpet Shading, Footprints, Pooling

By TWG 55 Comments

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Why is My New Carpet Turning Different Shades?

There are many types of carpet shading complaints. Carpet shading is a localized alteration in the orientation of the pile.  Shading occurs as the result of randomness in pile lay direction. Shading will be seen on both wall to wall carpets and rugs. The Custom Berber Rugs are the best one to have indoors. The physical cause of shading is due to the difference between light reflection from the greater surface area of the side of the bent fibers, which appear lighter in color, compared to the greater light absorption and darker appearance of the more vertically oriented fibers. [Read more…]

Filed Under: Carpet Concerns Tagged With: Care, Carpet, Carpet Fiber, Carpet Manufacturing, Carpeting, Cut Pile, Footprints, Light Reflection, Pooling, Rug, Shading, Spot, Tracking, Vacuum Marks, Wall to Wall, Watermarking

Carpet Sprouting, Sprouts, Tuft Loss and Holes

By TWG 10 Comments

Carpet Holes Sprouting and Yarn Pulling Out

carpet sprouts, tuft loss, holessprouingDSC_1056My carpet is going to go bare! A complaint so often heard from consumers when they see  loose tufts, snags and carpet sprouting on their wall to wall carpet. Seeing the yarn coming out of their carpet says to them that the carpet is failing and there must be a manufacturing problem. Most carpet sprouting issues, high tufts or even holes in carpet are not manufacturing problems even though they are a carpet issue that needs to be addressed. At the same time, some tuft loss on a cut pile carpet is considered normal and is not a reason for alarm. When in question, expert certified carpet inspectors like Terry and Kevin Weinheimer of the Weinheimer Group can determine cause and if a simple correction is called for or a carpet needs to be replaced. [Read more…]

Filed Under: Carpet Concerns Tagged With: Association, Carpet, Carpet Back, Carpet Fiber, Carpet Manufacturing, Carpeting, Cleaning, CRI, Delamination, Dry Cleaning, Education, Expert, Floor, Group, Inspector, Inspectors, Installation, Installer, Kevin, Manufacturer, Organization, Snags, Sprouts, Terry, Wall to Wall, Weinheimer

Prepare, Prevent or File a Carpet Claim

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prepare-prevent-file-carpet-claimThe filing of a carpet claim is something that neither the end user or the industry looks forward to.  For a consumers own protection they should consider even before purchasing their next wall to wall carpet that you may need to file a carpet claim.  A statement like that makes it sound like I am trying to make work for my own company and other Certified Carpet Inspectors. Actually my goal is to prevent the purchaser of carpeting from experiencing the need to file a carpet claim. [Read more…]

Filed Under: Carpet Concerns Tagged With: Carpet, Carpet Manufacturing, Certified, Claim, Education, Expert, Inspection, Inspector, Manufacturer, Weinheimer

Carpet Backing Delamination

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carpet backing delaminationCarpet backing delamination is the most serious problem that occurs with the back of a wall-to-wall carpet. Carpet backing delamination is the separation of the carpets secondary back from its primary back. [Read more…]

Filed Under: Carpet Concerns Tagged With: Backing, Carpet, Carpet Manufacturing, Delamination, Inspection, Lamination, Latex, Manufacturer

Corn Rowing of Wall to Wall Carpet

By TWG 49 Comments

Corn Rowing of Wall to Wall Carpet

Corn rowing of wall-to-wall carpet sounds a bit strange. When you inspect, or look at a wall to wall carpet with cornrowing it is indeed odd appearing with bands or rows that are high and low.

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Filed Under: Carpet Concerns Tagged With: Bands, Carpet, Carpet and Rug, Corn, CRI, Inspection, Institute, Kevin, Row, Terry, Wall to Wall, Weinheimer

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Carpet Color Loss

Carpet Color Loss – Fading and Yellowing Terms such as yellowing are often … [Read More...]

Carpet Inspector Education

Carpet Inspector Education Becoming Certified Carpet inspector education is far … [Read More...]

Shift Marks in Carpet

Shift marks are one of the most controversial claims in the carpet industry. … [Read More...]

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