Wall To Wall Carpet

[chuckd]

Can anybody help with some pricing on wall to wall carpeting with pad, installed?

I would think the nearest one where I am building will be either Udon Thani or Khon Kaen. Does Home Pro have carpeting?

I am in Saudi and Google doesn't help much with this. Maybe somebody on the ground over there knows.

I appreciate any help.

[Naam]

Can anybody help with some pricing on wall to wall carpeting with pad, installed?

wall to wall carpeting in Thailand. are you joking?

[MarcoH]

Can anybody help with some pricing on wall to wall carpeting with pad, installed?

wall to wall carpeting in Thailand. are you joking?

correct,, what for carpets? i mean it's good breading point for cocroaches and all the bug's....

[ProThaiExpat]

I would be surprised that anyone with any length of stay in Thailand would consider wall to wall carpeting. Even area carpets are problematic. I had one in the living/lounge area and it developed all kinds of weird dark spots.

I do have glue down industrial carpet laid under my gym equipment but it is glued down over tile, as opposed to concrete, which is the usual lay down method in the west but of course with pad.

I have seen area carpets and glue down industrial at Homepro. I would suggest to anyone planning on building a home in Thailand and without much long stay living experience, to plan on having tile layed throughout the home and then later experiment with area rugs or wall to wall carpeting on top of that.

As you may know, concrete is porous and moisture often percolates upward through it so the primary surface above your concrete floor should be impervious, such as tile. Some have laid plastic or other sealer over concrete as a moisture barrier before laying parquet.

[chuckd]

I guess one intelligent reply out of three isn't too bad.

I have lived in Thailand off and on for the last 30 years so please don't pretend to preach to me or give me wise-ass remarks to a legitimate question. If you people don't have any answers, it is often best to keep your remarks to yourself.

Thank you, ProThaiExpat for the one cogent answer. I had planned to lay the carpet over ceramic tile, appropriately sealed, in order to prevent the moisture buildup as you indicated. Thanks for your help anyway.

MarcoH, I believe the words you were trying so valiantly to spell were "breeding" and "cockroaches". Try Spell Check in the future.

Edited March 24, 2007 by chuckd

[MarcoH]

I guess one intelligent reply out of three isn't too bad.

I have lived in Thailand off and on for the last 30 years so please don't pretend to preach to me or give me wise-ass remarks to a legitimate question. If you people don't have any answers, it is often best to keep your remarks to yourself.

Thank you, ProThaiExpat for the one cogent answer. I had planned to lay the carpet over ceramic tile, appropriately sealed, in order to prevent the moisture buildup as you indicated. Thanks for your help anyway.

MarcoH, I believe the words you were trying so valiantly to spell were "breeding" and "cockroaches". Try Spell Check in the future.

Now you are the 1 preaching, but thank you for that, u must be pommy as you take spelling as your life work,,

Edited March 24, 2007 by MarcoH

[ProThaiExpat]

Chuckd: I guess I have to admit I am surprised, but not amazed. I didn't mention it because I gather you are not in Chiang Mai, but there is a carpet store outfitted like most western style carpet stores, with yard carpet on display, for what is evidently wall to wall intended installations, It is on the Super Highway south side about 4 Km from Airport Plaza.

What with proper tile under layment, I see no reason why wall to wall wouldn't work if you could keep it clean. I have 18 inch tiles throughout my one level home and the floor could be swept or vacuumed everyday for maximum cleanliness. I had baseboards under all my kitchen and bathroom cabinets but removed them so I could see under cabinets for termites and dust accumulations. Most of my furniture sits on legs.

That way accumulated grime doesn't collect under the cabinets and at the juncture of the usable floor and the baseboards. Must admit, the "look" is more high tech than high class, as it looks like I expect a flood, what with all those legs under the cabinets.

One infestation of underground termites was enough to cure me of hidden places around the house in Thailand. The developer has added underground PVC pipes for the insertion of pest control poisons under the houses in his new phase development. Do wish he had installed them under my house. I had to have holes drilled through my slab to get to the termites under the house.

No termites have ever made it though my tile installation but I would be concerned about termites and wall to wall carpet where door frames go through the tile and slab and anywhere else termites can get up through your slab. Super attention to the integrity of your slab and walls will prevent termite infestation, ie. where wall joins floor, where pipes or electric comes through a wall, etc. But with 30 years here, you know all this I suspect.

I have always had wall to wall carpet in the west and prefer it for a luxurious feel in my home, one of the things I gave up when coming to Thailand. Hot weather and humidity here makes for less yearnings for things that were in the past in cooler and dryer climates.

[Lite Beer]

I guess one intelligent reply out of three isn't too bad.

I have lived in Thailand off and on for the last 30 years so please don't pretend to preach to me or give me wise-ass remarks to a legitimate question. If you people don't have any answers, it is often best to keep your remarks to yourself.

Thank you, ProThaiExpat for the one cogent answer. I had planned to lay the carpet over ceramic tile, appropriately sealed, in order to prevent the moisture buildup as you indicated. Thanks for your help anyway.

MarcoH, I believe the words you were trying so valiantly to spell were "breeding" and "cockroaches". Try Spell Check in the future.

I guess I must be one of the unintelligent ones. I have been sitting here trying to understand why anyone would want wall to wall carpeting here in Thailand. Maybe I am missing something.

Anyway as they say, up to you.

Good luck in your search. I have never seen it. :D

[Gary A]

I must be somewhere in the middle of this one. I would have liked to have had wall to wall carpet in the bedroom. I think keeping the humidity down is the secret to having wall to wall carpet. My wife talked me out of it by telling me that it was up to me but that I would be the one to take care of it and keep it clean. She thought it was a TERRIBLE idea.

[chuckd]

ProThaiExpat:

Thanks for the information. I was looking for something in Udon Thani or Khon Kaen, however. Good advice all around and I do appreciate it.

Gary A.:

I might change my mind, but right now I am serious about getting some carpet. It could be more trouble than it is worth. It is possible I will just go with large area rugs. I use these in my home in Pattaya.

MarcoH:

No, I'm not "pommy" and spelling is hardly my life's work....nor is it apparantly yours.

[samtam]

ProThaiExpat:

No, I'm not "pommy" and spelling is hardly my life's work....nor is it apparantly yours.

[cathyy]

I had a large area rug (12x15 feet) when I lived in the Philippines, and it worked surprisingly well. I think I'd like a rug in my living room. The place I live in had carpet upstairs. I had it all removed and tile laid, primarily due to the nasty smell of the padding in the heat and the mildew. Prior occupants didn't know how to care for carpet.

I am jealous of ProThaiExpat's kitchen. I have western style cabinets with baseboards, and I desperately want to replace then with cabinets on legs so I can watch for pests better. I visualize thousands of roaches hiding behind those baseboards where I cannot see and the pest control company cannot spray...

[chuckd]

ProThaiExpat:

No, I'm not "pommy" and spelling is hardly my life's work....nor is it apparantly yours.

Oops! ApparEntly I need spel chek myself.

Edited March 25, 2007 by chuckd

[ProThaiExpat]

I had a large area rug (12x15 feet) when I lived in the Philippines, and it worked surprisingly well. I think I'd like a rug in my living room. The place I live in had carpet upstairs. I had it all removed and tile laid, primarily due to the nasty smell of the padding in the heat and the mildew. Prior occupants didn't know how to care for carpet.

I am jealous of ProThaiExpat's kitchen. I have western style cabinets with baseboards, and I desperately want to replace then with cabinets on legs so I can watch for pests better. I visualize thousands of roaches hiding behind those baseboards where I cannot see and the pest control company cannot spray...

Cathyy: How are your cabinets assembled. Perhaps custom? Do the cabinet "boxes" rest on the floor? How are the cabinet "boxes" suspended above the floor. Is the baseboard an integral part of the cabinet "box".

Having done many kitchens in my life, I am most interested in how your kitchen was assembled. Except custom cabinets in Thailand, most cabinets, custom and otherwise consist of the square "box" upon which a door is installed and then the "box" is kept off the floor by legs. Are yours different?

Did you see your cabinets go in? Have you looked under your cabinets? What did you see?

You may well be able to add legs at this late date depending on how yours are installed? Another way to ask the question is what is keeping you from just removing the existing baseboards?