Stretch in carpet installation is the most popular installation methods in homes. In this installation, strips of wood (called tackless strip) are nailed (or sometimes glued) to the floor around the edges of the room. These strips have hundreds of nails that are angled in towards the wall. Can IRead More →
Direction of the Pile The most important rule in carpet is that you must always keep the carpet running in the same direction. You can’t turn one piece sideways to the other. Doing so will cause the two pieces to look very different from each other, sometimes even like differentRead More →
Gross Internal Floor Area is the area of a building measured to the internal face of the perimeter walls at each floor level, which includes: Areas occupied by internal walls and partitions. Columns, piers chimney breasts, stairwells, lift-wells, other internal projections, vertical ducts, and the like. What does GIA meanRead More →
Have you ever heard of a “flight” of stairs? This term is defined as an uninterrupted series of steps. This can mean the set of stairs between floors or those between landings. How many steps are there between floors? Stair steps are typically eight (7) inches high. Ten feet isRead More →
Stairways shall have a headroom clearance of not less than 80 inches (2032 mm) measured vertically from a line connecting the edge of the nosings. Such headroom shall be continuous above the stairway to the point where the line intersects the landing below, one tread depth beyond the bottom riser.Read More →
15 years of development, and they can’t climb stairs. … As a side note, it’s worth adding that while no Roombas have the ability to climb stairs, many of the newer models ship with sensors that allow them to clean the upper flights of houses without cascading down a flightRead More →