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heavyparts · 04-14-2006, 06:46 AM

Thinking of putting carpet in the basement using a thick pad but how do you install it on the concrete with tackless??

Bill_Vincent · 04-14-2006, 07:27 PM

Not to put a kink in your plans, but before you put carpet in there, you might want to do a moisture test on the slab, first.

**Floorwizard** · 04-14-2006, 07:38 PM

the pad should be glued down with a pad glue.
are you saying you are installing without tack strip?

747 · 04-15-2006, 02:55 AM

You use a can of spray adhesive to keep pad down. The tack strips go around the perimeter and you use cement nails. Meaning they use a certain nail for plywood and a cement nail for cement. That is the way they did mine. They used a liberal amount of that spray adhesive on the floor for the pad.

Bud Cline · 04-15-2006, 11:24 AM

You can buy "tackless" with masonry nails already started in the strips the same as regular tackless with regular nails that would be intended for wood subfloors.

adams,b · 04-17-2006, 06:31 PM

has any one seen the glue you can use for tack strip that alows you to stretch in like 2 hours. That some bad stuff.

Mike Costello · 04-18-2006, 05:14 AM

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Originally Posted by adams,b

has any one seen the glue you can use for tack strip that alows you to stretch in like 2 hours. That some bad stuff.

Back when I was still laying rug...stopped a year ago, I used it all the time. It was a modified urethane adhesive that was activated with a spritz of water. Did what it said too, you could power stretch off it in two hours.

adams,b · 04-19-2006, 06:16 PM

thats top notch!