Bentley Prince Street broadloom carpet.

[Sean Moore]

Awesome, awesome material so far. We're doing some courtrooms (Denver just built a new justice center and the old is getting re-purposed) in two flavors.

The one we've started with is a small block print with maybe 5 rows across the pattern and a really easy to row-cut cross seam. I love it. Put together at least 100ft of short-ish seams today and used about 20 stay nails. TWENTY! Heaven on earth, I tell you. It's even easy to row cut between one of the obvious rows and the little sub-row, as long as you run a separator down it first.

The other pattern is going to be a floral and if the consistency is anything like this small block carpet it's going to be a breeze to get both the "small" pattern at the seam and the "large" pattern across the room dead-nuts on. Royal Flush type of dead-nuts, not some wimpy little four of a kind! We're talking about variance of 2% within 2 feet and then the pattern is back on. When you back up the carpet is just straight straight straight within the body, only a little bit of sway out at the edge.

Nice to have a job to brag about for once.

Only bummer is that we have some old battleship lino down on the floor so we have to let it flash for an extraordinary amount of time. It's cool though, once we got our "anchor" shots down we had three areas flashing at once.

Again, just bragging.

Oh, and the demo? Full sheets baby! 12ft wide coming up like butter with the National pulling machine. Hope that continues through all the courtrooms but I sort of doubt it, this one was last refurb'd in the '70s as evidenced by the woven orange carpet. Saw some serious bubbling in the cheapie "standard blue" carpet next door so who knows, might hit a streak.

<end brag> (for now)

[BrianM]

Bentley is good stuff.

[kwfloors]

I like it too..

[ortiz34]

Just don't F up or they'll throw you in the clinker

[Sean Moore]

ortiz34 said Just don't F up or they'll throw you in the clinker

bah... drop a row, grow a row...

What's a row between friends? We all make it look right.

Seriously though, the floral pattern is standard designer BullSht. Srsly. Drop rows are hard as hell to cut off and easy as hell to leave. There has been a little bit of "hand carving" followed up with "nap-shear ruining" but I think I have a handle on it now and unfortunately the rest of the guys have left it to me.

Sheez, I miss my wall trimmer.

[TFP Admin]

I was given permission by the OP to move this topic to the consumer forums. Thanks Sean.

Jim

[Sean Moore]

So the pattern in the large floral is also very consistent. 18.75x18.75 in tufted repeat with a color pattern 20 in in the width. I'm not really sure how but even all of my monkey matches for the little nooks and crannies match in both the tufted pattern and the color. I went for the color "stripes" matching but everything worked out better than expected.

I hear we have 8 total courtrooms to do but this was the largest... oh well, I could work with this material for 6 months, never mind a month.

[kylenelson]

Remember that we like pictures sean

[Sean Moore]

funny that, my smartphone just died today. I don't know if I have another phone around here with a camera. I might be getting a better one this weekend so we'll see.