Don't Lose the Pad Glue Lid

[cproader]

strip buster said spray grade contact,in a plastic bottle with a liquid nail nozzle stuffed thru the centre of the lid....squirt perim plus squirt inbetween seams of pad (no need ti lift pad at seams as the nozzle gets in there)-seams bond as one.....no tape needed .

..........I like that idea, gonna try that on the next one..........

[rgfloor]

strip buster said spray grade contact,in a plastic bottle with a liquid nail nozzle stuffed thru the centre of the lid....squirt perim plus squirt inbetween seams of pad (no need ti lift pad at seams as the nozzle gets in there)-seams bond as one.....no tape needed .

I saw an installer do something like that a few years back, BUT he forgot to check and see how the contact adhesive would react with the frothed urethane cushion he was using. He poured the contact out and dropped the pad into it and wherever the adhesive was wet it ate the pad up and collapsed the cellular structure.
Long story short he bought a 15x18 room of high priced cushion. I have always stayed away from "hot" adhesives and foam cushion.

[kwfloors]

The reason I was shown was dirt migration from the floor. Saw several inspection pics at school showing dirt lines in the carpet above every pad joint. There was discussion, I heard, about every job being vacuumed before the pad goes down for the new rule book.

[strip buster]

rgfloor said I saw an installer do something like that a few years back, BUT he forgot to check and see how the contact adhesive would react with the frothed urethane cushion he was using. He poured the contact out and dropped the pad into it and wherever the adhesive was wet it ate the pad up and collapsed the cellular structure. Long story short he bought a 15x18 room of high priced cushion. I have always stayed away from "hot" adhesives and foam cushion.

have seen the same thing many times.......but i use high end pad and contact doesn't disturb it.they have used to much and cheap pad.. tip of a liquid nail nozzle is very small. if the pad is crap then use same method just use differant glue. time is money.....

[Peter Kodner]

Daris Mulkin said I usually don't do the do the seams, tape them, and glue the perimeter. some time ago amybe it was on the FCI board when it was a good board someone told of taking like a gallon bucket of multipurpose and tipping it upside down and sliding the bucket across the floor and it would leave a thin film. They didn't say how to tip the bucket back up without emptying it though. I suspose you could slide a piece of card board under it. Daris

Having a commercial background, we primarily used hair/jute or synthetic needle punched. A gallon can of lino paste worked fine for many.many years.

strip buster said spray grade contact,in a plastic bottle with a liquid nail nozzle stuffed thru the centre of the lid....squirt perim plus squirt inbetween seams of pad (no need ti lift pad at seams as the nozzle gets in there)-seams bond as one.....no tape needed .

We occasionally would use pad adhesive in the same manner. Use a scratch awl to poke a hole in the container and walk 'n squirt. Lino paste was much cheaper and equally effective on needle punched though.

[rgfloor]

Peter Kodner said Lino paste was much cheaper and equally effective on needle punched though.

Yea for the old Bulldog Lino Paste.

It did smell though when you went to do the take-up.

[Peter Kodner]

Early on in my career, my brother and I did a ton of take ups for weekend installs (we went in Friday nights). Smelled like sh-t and gummed up opur razor scrapers pretty good. I loved doing the take up as we would make well over $100 an hour on some jobs and average over $50. When you are 22 and making the princely sum of $175 per week, it was pretty good drinking cash...
Helps explain where I am today

BTW not to totally hijack the thread, the tip on securing the can lid is simply brilliant!