Is rubber carpet padding better than rebond carpet padding?
Question:We're getting carpet installed in our house. The areas to be carpeted are the stairs, hallway, and three bedrooms. We're looking for a pad that doesn't wear down easily and can hold up to 2 dogs, a cat, and a baby. That means it would have to be water resistant, urine resistant, etc...
Depending on where we go, we get a different answer on which pad is the best. Frankly, I think the carpet salesmen are just telling us whatever they want to sell us is the best.
Does anyone have any advice for which pad would work best for our situation?
Answers:
I would recommend the rubber cushion. Rebond doesn't tend to hold up as well as a decent flat or waffled rubber pad. Rebond is pretty much the same material as a nerf toy and I'm sure you know how those absorb water. I would recomend a flat rubber pad since you are doing a hall and stairway which is going to get alot of traffic. Rubber won't collapse over time like rebond when a pad collapses that is what leads to premature wear in halls and on stairs. The pad I would recomend if you were my customer is a 23lb flat rubber pad that we sell here at Carpet One. A lot of places still recommend rebond because it is all they carry, not because it is the best.
One is generally no better than the other. the difference is rubber is made of ...rubber and the rebond pad is made of foam particles all meshed together and held with a mesh netting...The rubber padding or a thinner rebond is best used for underneath low-pile carpet such as cut n loop, which is the best carpet out there as far as wearability and cleaning and a high active family... or Berbers...Berbers are not recommended for stairs due to the smiling effect when it rounds the front the stair..The pad for someone with kids and pets, which I recommend for my customers at Lowes is the 8 lb Odor Ban II with the moisture barrier on top...It's 1/2 thick and the thin blue moisture barrier will keep any accidents on top of the carpet from going through the pad into the subfloor and which is where pet accidents and smells stay is in the wood subfloor or the concrete...the moisture barrier will prevent this from happening and the spill will stay in the carpet which makes it easier to get the stain or smell out..good luck
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