Don't Lose the Pad Glue Lid

[san diego jim]

Here is a trick we use to keep track of the pad glue can lid.
When opening a can of pad glue bend the top rim on the far side of the opening with a stair tool. The lid will "click" right in a remain there, never getting lost....

[Lo Down]

That's pretty slick.

[Daris Mulkin]

Good idea. Another trick I like when using pad cement is to kind of trowel it out using a piece of cardboard-usually a flap off my tackless box. I do this on my seam lines.

Daris

[rusty baker]

I use cardboard too. I just need a tip on not getting pad glue all over me.

[DJ]

Originally Posted by rusty baker I just need a tip on not getting pad glue all over me.

have your helper do it.

[rusty baker]

I am my helper.

[DJ]

Originally Posted by rusty baker I am my helper.

i know just funning ya yeah no matter how careful i am i still somehow get some on me. almost makes me want to wear coveralls like the old time installer i met years ago did

[skhardwoods]

Great tip, sure glad there was a picture. I never would have figured that one out.

[kwfloors]

I'd have glue on the lid too

[Bill Watson]

Originally Posted by Daris Mulkin Good idea. Another trick I like when using pad cement is to kind of trowel it out using a piece of cardboard-usually a flap off my tackless box. I do this on my seam lines. Daris

I have used cardboard as well, but most often will just use a pad scrap to "spread". Grab a scrap about 8 or 10 inches square more or less, fold it over a couple of times and spread away.

I see a lot of guys who just tape the edges to the tackless. I guess it works for them...

[mcbrides]

This product has only been available here for a couple of years.

Traditionally, we use the remnants of the end of a bucket of glue for pad. We usually only glue the seams, because there are two of us there to position the carpet. Our buddy, Flash, not only glues seams, but the perimeter also. If the customer has pissed him off, then he full glues the whole room.

[cproader]

I do the perimeter as well. I just drizzle it on both sides of the seam though, no spreadin fer me...........

[barrycarlton]

Originally Posted by cproader I do the perimeter as well. I just drizzle it on both sides of the seam though, no spreadin fer me...........

Ditto...

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[kwfloors]

I've done pad every which way that my mentors did. Some taped it to the strip, some glued with multi or pad glue, some spread,some didn't. I learned from other installers. There is a way to do pad that is a rule to tape the joints. I never knew that till inspection class. I think its from the national pad council or something like that. Now I have to find that thing. I just did some pad that said to only fasten the corners down. I went why would they recommend that? What keeps it from moving up onto the strip?

[Daris Mulkin]

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